Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini

[Matt Johnston]

On 27 May 2007, at 20:03, LuKreme wrote:
> But I'm backing up that many.  There are rooms with hundreds and  
> hundreds of minis where the optical drives are never used.

So, the only places where minis are used without their opticals is in  
the low end COLO space? Um.....

This kinda seals the death knell for the Mac mini as a whole.

> and "my preference" matches up how I see mini's being used by the  
> Mac people I know.
>
> Of all the minis I know about, only one is used by a newbie user  
> who did the BYODKM and uses the machine as their only computer, and  
> that was someone who upgraded from some model of Performa.   
> Everyone else the mini is part of a LAN of some sort, whether it is  
> a couple of other machines or a huge array of mini blades.

Okay, then the local-to-you market in Colorado is representative of  
the world.

My mistake.