An article on MacWorld.com claims that the Dell isn’t cheap anymore, despite costing $100 less, when you consider all that it lacks in comparison to the Mac Mini.
They’re wrong.
The specs table on their page states compares the Mac Mini’s “Two USB 2.0 ports” with the Dimension 2400’s “USB 2.0 (assumed–Dell doesn’t list this in the specs)”.
The Mac looks better, right? It actually isn’t. The Dell computer has six USB 2.0 ports: two in front, four in the back. As far as USB ports are concerned, it’s superior.
In the wireless category, they say the Mac Mini is “AirPort Extreme- and Bluetooth-ready”, while the Dell has “No wireless”.
The Mac also has no wireless. AirPort and Bluetooth cost extra - a lot extra. Did anyone mention that you can easily get an 802.11g USB adapter for $20? It’s probably about the same for a Bluetooth adapter. And you can use them, too, without an additional USB hub, because the Dell has six USB ports rather than two.
By the way, the Dell also has two PS/2 ports for the keyboard and mouse (you can also use USB ones). On the Mac Mini, you must use a USB keyboard and a USB mouse. That immediately uses up both ports, unless the keyboard has a built-in USB hub (some do).
When we look at audio on their comparison chart, the Mac Mini has “Audio out” while the Dell has “Integrated audio”. Integrated audio, much like integrated video, has the connotation of being low quality. Now, I’m not saying it isn’t - in fact, it is - but guess what?
The Mac Mini’s “audio out” is also integrated audio!
Now, to clarify, I’m not a big fan of Dell, but I just had to post this because the facts were so slanted and skewed.
No matter what type of good points you can dig up about dell and microsoft. Apple computers will always outrun windows. Macs look better, work better, are easier to use, and have much better software programs. The mac mini might have its downfalls such as the number of usb or other ports but the point of the mini was so be a cheaper solution to owning a mac. If you have a problem and need “100″ usb ports then well too bad for you, get a cheap a** dell. Macs may costs a great deal but your getting your moneys worth. If your too cheap or poor to own a mac then buy a dell. Dells can be good but macs are better. period.
Plus they make dells look like crap
Well my first computer, which I have now is a imac G3 500mhz running Panther 10.3.9. with 640 MB ram. I have premium adsl speed 1500/256 and everything is zipping along nicely. I have ordered the new imac 20” 2GHZ but will miss my little G3 which has given me no trouble. As for dell and macs, the only reason I am with macs is because my flatmate had one which i bought from him (G3) and just as well otherwise I am sure I would have fallen into a windows machine (thanks Ivan)…!
OS X is better than any LINUX OS for an average user, developers may think differenty.
But there is no average user, who manages their digital photos, video, emails and internet that are better off with a Linux OS.
KHTML has also recently benefitted massivly from Apples contributions, it’s as much KDE as Apple; well not quite, but almost there.
I agree, Apple are inovative. They make their own stuff, well, exepct the base OS, that is freeBSD, and the HTML engine for Safari; that is KHTML made by the KDE team, then there is Quartz, based on OpenGL. Hey im sure their web server software is based on their own software, oh they use apache? What about the tools in the comand line, hey! they were made by GNU.
Meh, I guess they use different processors to us x86 users..oh wait
”Apple makes it. Microsoft copies it.” ”
I think it should be read
“FreeBSD makes it. Apple copies/uses it”