783 In this week's The Road Warrior on MacOpinion, Charles Moore says:

The Mac mini has most frequently been compared with the eMac and the iMac, but actually it has a lot more in common with the iBook than its desktop Mac stablemates. For instance, the mini has a laptop-type 4200 RPM 2.5” hard drive, a typical laptop array of I/O ports, a laptop-style optical drive, and the mini CPU weighs a pound and a half less than the lightest laptop Apple ever made.

So, is the Mac mini a viable laptop substitute? It depends. Not if you need a really portable computer of course. In that case get an iBook or a PowerBook. However, for the past five years or so, an awful lot of laptops have been purchased for use mainly as desktop substitute computers that spend most of their time plugged into AC power, and frequently with an external keyboard, mouse, and even an external monitor hooked up. My ‘Books go for months at a time without ever being called on to run on battery power. For mostly desktop laptop users like me, the “transportable” Mac mini presents an enticing alternative to a ‘Book.


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