fud defined

February 6, 2005

i have read a lot of articles about the mac mini and how its not such a great deal. some of these articles make some debatable points but others are just way off the mark. this is probably the most ignorant article describing why the mac mini is not a good value. check out this quote:

you believe Apple’s marketing department, the new Mini is “smaller than most packs of gum” and weighs “less than four quarters”. Well, we received our test unit from Apple yesterday, and let me say right off the bat that those claims are a wee bit of an exaggeration.

~~mr lopez was obviously mistaking the mac mini for the ipod shuffle. clearly a bad a case of not reading. but he concludes with this bit of genius:~~

To see how much industry support the Mac platform has these days, I did a google to see if there were Mac versions of any of my favorite applications; unfortunately I ended up disappointed every time. There are very few first-person shooters for OSX. There is no Mac version of WeatherBug to check the temperature anywhere in the world. Nor is there a Mac version of helpful web and email enhancers like Hotbar. Or any equivalent of the DealHelper software I use to keep track of my passwords. My Office 2003 CD would not install, despite claims I had heard from Mac fanboys that OS X is compatible with Office. Heck, the Internet Explorer icon isn’t even out on the taskbar by default, it’s buried in the c:\applications folder.

~~is this guy serious?~~

~~Jorge Lopez is a DeVry graduate with an MCSE certification and is currently the Chief Software Reviewer at Divisiontwo.com’s Technology Insider.~~
. ~~remind me to scratch devry off the list of colleges i want my kids to attend.~~

update: parody site. point at me and laugh like nelson from the simpsons. ha haaaa!

braytek, macmini, macintosh