Section 31. Mac mini

31. Mac mini

When my father-in-law's friends walk into his home office, they see his old monitor, his old keyboard, his old mousebut no computer. "Where's the big, roaring, whirring box that hogged all the legroom under your desk?"

No one can believe Joe's Mac minia computer the size of hearty sandwich, as you can see in Figure 10can wield so much power. His Mac mini runs Mac OS X and Windows. It organizes his photos, plays MP3s, surfs the Internet, and burns DVDs. Unlike his old PC, it doesn't freeze up or need resetting every other day.

Figure 10. The Mac mini, smaller than a hearty sandwich, outperforms clunky PC towers several times its size. (Image courtesy of Apple.)

The old PC sits in the closet, gathering dust. Joe shrugs. "Why would anyone want something that big, when you can get something that does more, is just as affordable, and takes up so much less space?"