I love my Mac Mini but really the specs of the machine are a little on the low side, which I suppose is fair enough as it is pitched at switchers. Those getting into a Mac for the first time generally want a basic, cheap pc and already have all the other necessities like keyboard, monitor etc.

My Mac Mini came with 1Gb of RAM and a 80Gb hard disk, not really a lot of space for the modern desktop.  Almost immediately after getting the mini I upgraded the RAM, doubling it and now the latest upgrade… the hard disk.....

I have been using my Mac now for quite a while and I have used one at various times throughout my computer beginnings. One thing really irks me though and that is moving the focus on buttons on dialog screens with the keyboard.

On Windows its simple and intuitive to do simply press tab and you can cycle through the buttons.  On a Mac its needlessly complicated on what is generally a vastly more intuitive operating system than Windows. It gets even worse if you own one of the new aluminium keyboards as you have to add the fn function key into the equation.

You may remember that I purchased a G4 Mac mini last year. Well I have had nothing but trouble with it. It started off innocent enough when every now and then the colour wheel would pop up and the machine will slow to a crawl, cue various hard reboots.

Eventually the machine had had enough and it finally packed in. Still being under warranty, I took it to the Apple store to be repaired.  One hard drive replacement later and a couple of weeks of time, I had my Mac back. Happy days I hear you exclaim, all sorted, well not quite....

I just purchased a nearly new Mac Mini G4 computer.  When I say nearly new I mean I bought it ex-display for a ridiculously cheap price, AU$350 to be exact.  I have wanted one for a while but I couldn’t justify buying one, not because they are in any way expensive but those funds would be better spent else where(and I already have a perfectly good, fully functional computer). It was all but a little yearning in the back of my mind until fate decided to deal a hand of “too good a price to miss”, when I spotted it.