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| MAC MINI |  | Category: Tech
Thursday, January 13th, 2005 @ 10:42 am
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 I think Apple has finally done it. I think they may have finally created a computer I would actually consider buying. Behold, the Mac Mini.
Most of the products they've produced thus far have appealed to me in some fashion, but with the price tag they end up slapping on them, it never seems like they're actually trying to accomplish ubiquity like Microsoft has. Rather it seems they are striving to create niche products that douche bags with ponytails and VW Beatles want to own strictly for the purpose of conspicuous consumption. I mean, do iPods really do that much more than other mp3 players? Fuck no.
But I digress. The Mac Mini. Now, it's not beefy by today's standards, but it's a nice little machine, comes with MacOS X, and for a paltry $500, it's probably the cheapest mac to date. Now, it's not that I want it because it has some feature that will turn the industry on its ear. It's not that I want it because it looks so damned cool. It's not that I want it so people I know will see it and instantly know that I am part of the douche bag design elite. I want it because MacOS X is a solid, well performing, stunningly beautiful, unix based operating system and it's finally packaged on a machine I could buy without kicking myself in the nuts for spending an arm and a spleen on a machine that holds no more value than a $300 PC that I put together myself. It's an argument that I'm sure mac people are tired of hearing, but that doesn't make it any less true.
So there. I want to buy a Mac. Will I? Probably not, but the concession that I want to buy one should count for something on its own.
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