From: "Rich Gauszka" 

George,

 Yep,  I have a Mac Mini in the living room for use as a media pc. I
configured mine with 2GB of RAM though as I'm using the Parallels virtual
software  ( www.parallels.com ) to run Win 2k in place of using the Apple
dual boot XP/wga stuff.

 In use the mini's worked quite well but I had had problems with the
scheduling of sleep mode ( doesn't always work for me) so now I just
schedule a daily power off/on cycle ( never fails ). I have had several
hangs when I had the mini set to turn my plasma display off after several
hours of idle time ( it would never wake the display up again ) so I avoid
that now.

I'm using the Apple wireless keyboard but ditched the Apple wireless mouse
for Logitech 2-button ( makes life easier )

Apple just released the 10.4.7 software update which I applied last night
so maybe the sleep/saver glitches are gone

As a Mac neophyte I found the O'Reilly book 'Switching to the Mac Tiger
Edition' by Progue and Goldstein quite useful

I had some problems finding a usable 'universal'/intel AC3 codec and
finding the usable DivX software ( had to use the beta ) but they've just
announce the 'universal' version of 6.5.1 on 6/29 ( haven't tried it yet )

 I've been using http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/  and
http://www.versiontracker.com/macintel/ to locate software for the mini.



"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
news:44a6208c{at}w3.nls.net...
> Rich,
>    Did I remember correctly that you recently bought a Mac?  I am
> seriously moving in that direction and was wondering what  you purchased
> and how it has worked?  I was thinking of the Mac Mini with 1GB RAM and
> 100 GB HardDrive.
>
> George
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:44a55c3b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Tried to go onto the wga forum and received this
>>
>>
>> Your user acount has been banned. Visit here for more info.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Naturally the link to visit has nothing to do with the banning
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?WS=communities
>>
>> I reckon they only wish happy news
>>
>
>

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