Apple Mac mini MB139LL/A
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend The Mac Mini features the powerful 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It has two cores, so it's like having two 2.0GHz processors in one! Another great feature is the suite of applications in iLife '08. A full-featured collection of programs that are designed to let you easily take control of your creative projects. iPhoto organizes your digital pics, and has a cool feature that groups them by event. iWeb makes it easy to create… Product details and pricing info |
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73 Customer Reviews Posted
- Mac mini
- After doing lot of research whether to go for Apple laptop or Mac mini.settled with Mac mini as the price was good.I would say it is really a good investment.Setup was very easy and got the Leophard DVD from Apple within a week and upgrade took less time.Only thing you need to have in mind is the Monitor which you are using should be DVI compatible then only you can get a better resolution.If you have a VGA monitor the resolution will be ok but not that great/
Installed Microsoft XP using Bootcamp.Install was a snap.no issues Apple have given all the drivers needed to run Windows.Both works fine
Pros:
Light weight
No noise
Fits your desktop
Easy setup
Apple OS
Cons:
Installing Additonal RAM.It is a pain to open the box to do it.
Overall if you are looking to switch to MAC from Windows then go for this. - 2007-11-29, 13 of 13 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Mac of Many Trades
- This is a great little machine and it's useful in so many different ways.
Right now, I have 30 of these Mac minis in a data center working as great servers. (I buy one per customer so they can each have their own machine for security/full access.)
The ability to run 3GB of RAM is a nice upgrade.
It arrives with the full install of Mac OS X Leopard. If you want to save some space on your little Mac mini hard drive, do a re-install of your own and leave out the languages and printer drivers that you don't need. In my case, I also leave out apps like iDVD and Garageband as I only use those on my iMac. In all, you can re-gan 5-6 GB of space. - 2007-11-27, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Fabulous
- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006HU49Y/ref=cm_cr_rev_prod_title
Great computer for the money. You get a great OS in an unbelievably small package that disappears on your desktop. It is very quiet, not fans, and never gets more than luke warm. Like all Apples, it works!...
Bob - 2007-11-22, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Don't upgrade to Leopard!
- I bought this just after Leopard was announced and also bought the upgrade DVD. After upgrading to Leopard I could no longer log in to make changes, but I could use the computer. After a two hour call to Apple Tech Support I could no longer use the computer and they wanted me to re-install the OS and NOT transfer my old settings.
Search around and you will see this is a known bug that Apple could have warned people about or made a fix for before it screws up the computer. Apple still refuses to take responsibility. Avoid Apple products unless you don't plan to upgrade. - 2007-11-09, 12 of 59 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Pretty awesome for such a little guy.
- I have a 3 year old powerbook and this cheap mac mini runs circles around it!! Even though it's completely low end, it's still fast enough to watch 720P HDTV and movies.
I upgraded it with 3GB of ram (though you have to do that yourself, apple will only install 2GB, but 50% more ram makes it MUCH faster. (the max it will recognize is 3.3GB but you'd have to install 4gb for that.. so it's kind of a waste)
You can EASILY hook it up to an HDTV through DVI-DVI, DVI-HDMI, or DVI-VGA. I do this when I download either a broadcast HDTV show or to watch a recorded show or movie from my cable box. You can record a digital stream to the mac mini through the Firewire connection of your cable box.
I recommend getting an external hard drive, and just using the internal drive for applications.
It seems to keep things snappy.
Anyway, I bought this mainly because I need to do 4 illustrations at 4 feet by 6 feet, I used Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Corel Painter X all at the same time with documents ipen in each. I saved them as pdfs, and really never had to wait for any functions.
Only 3D and Video apps take time to render, everything else in real time.
So if you want a fairly inexpensive desktop computer (and understand you have to know a bit about computers to do any sort of upgrades) this is really pretty solid. - 2007-11-06, 46 of 47 people found this review helpful, Rated:
