Mark Derricutt's Disturbing Thoughts
MacMini and Disk Space
posted Friday, 21 January 2005
I've just been reading a "hands on" article about the MacMini over on MacCentral:
And for those curious about hard drive space, fresh out of the box the 80GB hard drive has 67GB of free space with OS X and the included applications installed; after installing iLife ’05, that drops to just over 65.5GB.After I add in my iPod Photo 60gb and sync up the MP3s, that leaves me around 15gb free, add in all my photos, code, applications and assorted movies - dayam - out of disk space. Somehow I know I wouldn't want anything LESS than an 80gb drive in any Mac I (dreaming....) get; and I thought Fedora Core 3 was bad with a 4-5gb full install.
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Sunday, 23 January 2005 6:59 am
So buy a bigger HD. I don't think the goal of mac mini is to replace your
desktop, as opposed to allow many to try and maybe move over to a mac.
Sure, many will buy it as desktop replacements, but the reason it sells
without a keyboard, mouse, and monitor is so that you, you presumably
already own a desktop, probably a Wintel box, can just buy a cheap $10
2-way KVM and plug in the mac mini and go.
What they Mac Mini SHOULD bundle, though, is the 2 way KVM. I think if their selling point is adding it to existing system so that you need a KVM, they should bundle a cheap one with it so you can go right out of the box.
Kevin