Mac Mini

Since my MacBook Pro decided to end its life not long after Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple CEO I have been without a full time Mac. So I spent some time just using my iPad 2 as my main computer and began researching what I wanted as a main computer. I looked through all of the Mac Laptops but came to the conclusion that I did not want to spend £2000 on a laptop again, especially considering that I travel a lot around the world and it would get knocked around a lot.

So, I then started to look at the Apple desktops, the first one that I looked at was the iMac. The one thing that put me off the iMac is the fact that if either the screen or actual computer goes wrong then both and gone. I also have a 20inch monitor and keyboard and mouse, this kind of left one choice, the Mac Mini. There are four choices for the Mac Mini, you can choose the basic model with an integrated graphics card, then a faster model with a AMD graphics chip, an i7 version of the descrete graphics version and finally the server model.

I decided to go down the second model route, the Core i5 with a descrete AMD graphics card. Into this I installed a 128Gb SSD, secondary 500Gb HDD and 8Gb of RAM. I then swapped my Microsoft keyboard and mouse with the Apple wired keyboard with keypad and a Magic Trackpad.

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