From: /m 

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:27:30 -0600, "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote:

>It's interesting.  I'm picking up more and more interest from the company
>about moving to Apple/Mac OS X/Apple-Intel Hardware.
>
>I just added a Mac-Mini to the studio mostly for doing iTunes encoding.
>Works really well, is totally silent (well, with the other computers making
>noise, this one is silent.


I just got a new dishwasher.  When the refrigerator is running, it drowns
out the noise of the dishwasher, so the dishwasher is effectively silent.


>And, as the art designers said "It's so cute...".

I've been saying...


>
>My boss (CEO) is in the market for a new laptop, and now that the new Mac
>Laptops can run Windows apps either via Boot Commander or Parallels, he's
>seriously looking to move.  95% of his time is spent in Office with Outlook,
>Excel and Word.  All things that are directly available on OSX with Office
>2004 Mac.
>
>For the rest, we'd probably do Parallels so he can startup Windows to run
>the few apps he might need there.
>
>I'm learning more and more about OS X and Apple hardware (the PMU reset
>button is a key one to remember).
>
>A flotilla of Mac Mini's would make a nice set of office machines.  Gig
>Ethernet, 80-100 gig HD's, quite, small, low power consumption.  What's not
>to like?

Once you get accustomed to Netinfo Manager, managing those Mac Minis will
be easier as well.

  /m

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