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I need to buy a new computer for a close friend and finally convinced her to get a MacMini. While looking for some nice reviews, I found this one and, seriously, I don’t know if it’s a satire:

‘Mac Mini: The Emperor’s New Computer’ by Jorge Lopez, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)

Some of the best reasons, why the MacMini and OS X sucks (quotes from the above mentioned article):

• “[…] no serial ports, no way to connect a printer, no PS/2 ports, no floppy drive.”
• “[…] no Windows XP.”
• “[…]during normal operation the unit makes no sound whatsoever. “This could make it very difficult for a novice user to know whether or not the computer is on”
• “[…] stripped-down operating system which Apple calls OS X, similar to the stripped-down WindowsCE OS found on many handhelds.”
• “It might also be the perfect computer for grandmothers or autistic children.”
• “[…] a stripped-down email client that can’t execute scripts or open attachments without user intervention.”
• “[…] a defragmenter or a registry cleaner are notably absent […]”
• “is the mini a maxi value? For me, clearly, no. When I consider that a good deal of my time is spent running applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV, Windows Update and Ad-Aware–none of which are available for the Mac platform–it doesn’t make sense for me to “switch” to a Mac at this time”

That was a good laugh. Windows-users are “working” using Scandisk, Norton AV, System Utilities etc. while Mac-users only can use some of these.

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