Display for a mac mini - recommendations?

[Kid_Eternity]

Actually I usually find it's the other way around. There seem to be a host of pc-ite trolls who'll quickly flick to any Apple related thread and then voice their usual anti-Apple rants, regardless of content. Strange little people with strange obsessional chips on their shoulder, all too prominent all round the web - places like ZDNet, even MacWorld are plagued by the same old suspects. We've even got one very like on it on these here boards - he'll remain nameless for the moment, but it's fair to say you'll see him gravitating towards any threads about Apple, tired cliches in hand. You've got to wonder why.

Point is, you may occasionally hear the occasional whimper or burst of peo-apple praise from a mac user in a world of forums and threads largely dominated by windows-folks. But you'll rarely see a mac user actively seeking out pc-based threads to make the same uninformed point again and again.

Sure, there's a lot of loyalty for the mac from its users, but there's little of the need to actively disparage the windows platform. There are enough disgruntled Gates-OS users to make it a largely pointless activity.

Hmmm, going by Urban I'd disagree, we're all probably about as bad as each other...

 

[Jelly]

Looks like we're all in the shits: Link

The Firefox issue aside - all that's being said is that as OSX becomes more popular they expect more attacks. It's not actually happening now and, at present, there are no signs that it has begun to happen.

Mac OS9 users were big users of symantec products - they were way better than what apple ever offered themselves. Since OSX now operates on UNIX users have little or no reasn to buy to symantec product. Since OSX i suspect symantec have been losing considerable income.

Make of that what you will

I like this post a bit further down:

re by (10:46am EST Tue Sep 20 2005)
firefox has no flaws its all a lie.Symantec and Microsoft are in cahoots. there trying to sell the new Microsoft's Internet Explorer which nobody wants. - by bla

 

[jæd]

The Firefox issue aside - all that's being said is that as OSX becomes more popular they expect more attacks. It's not actually happening now and, at present, there are no signs that it has begun to happen.

Mac OS9 was a single user system just like Win9x/Me. The difference is that that when Apple got to OSX they started again with a multi-user system as a base. Windows 2000/Xp are the same single system just cludged together to be multi-user.

Security should be part of the design, and when you have a cludge it is weak. Its why Apple (and Linux) won't suffer malware and viruses as much as Windows in its current incarnation. OS X can get as popular as it wants and, as long as Apple stays on top of updates, it won't get be as bad.

 

[poet]

Cheap PCs are cheaper than macs. Pick up a mac mini and it'll be quite obvious that you're not comparing it with some no-name computer fair PC, build quality is comparable to sony vaios and such premium brands. Apple don't make cheaply-built kit as the whole point of owning a mac is that you can run them for what in PC terms is an eternity without hassle. Only 5% of computers sold every year are macs, but 22-26% of computers in current use are macs - that speaks volumes about the long-term value.

Mac minis are designed for switching users who already have all the related tat. If you want something that (literally) comes out of the box, plugs into a wall and works you want an eMac (more customisable from here), IMHO the best value computer in the world when you take into account things like build quality, reliability and customer service. One tip - ram is the cheapest way to get a lot more useful performance, whatever you buy get a £40 stick of branded 512mb ram and fit it yourself - it's only one screw on the eMac and it'll make it run like a slippery whippet in comparison to a stock one.