[Ti] [OT] Intel Mac Mini?

[Dennis Fazio]

On Feb 24, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Scott Mckinley wrote:

> [...]
> Sooooo, my principal made the decision to go to PC.  I was really  
> pissed and a little upset.  School budgets are getting tighter and  
> tighter.  Plus 7 years is too long for any technology.  If any of  
> you have any suggestions, please let me know.  Plus I have heard  
> rumors of an Intel Mac Mini, which may save my school from being a  
> robot in the Windows world.  Just wondering if you have heard that  
> same rumor.

Sure, the rumors are there. There will be an Intel Mac Mini sometime  
this year, but only Apple knows when. I would be hesitant to put  
Minis in a lab because of the extra effort needed to bolt them down.  
By the time you add keyboard, mouse and LCD display, I believe you're  
pretty close to an iMac in price anyway.

A Mac Mini is no more 2-year-old technology than any PC is; they both  
get upgrades and tweaks (CPU speed, memory, disk, etc.); the PCs are  
essentially the same thing as introduced a couple of years ago also.  
They just market them as new and different because they are in such a  
competitive situation.

You probably don't have a lot of options because the decision was  
obviously made from on high based on emotion and personal preference  
rather than true cost/benefit or Return on Investment. You can't use  
logic and facts to overcome that.

-- 
Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com