Macintosh - Mac Mini aficionados please help

Edesilva, I'd love it if my Tivo had Firewire out, then I'd be able to avoid using my Canopus AVDC100 altogether, but all in all it's a great piece of equipment.

For my work and doing fun stuff on my Mac at home, Firewire has been a real blessing. Great transfer rates and much more reliable than USB.

Dean,

The Mini arrived on Wednesday. Apple shipped it overnight (2 day) from China at their expense. Within a couple of hours I had the machine configured and the wireless network, printer sharing (on a winXP PC) and file sharing setup. And, I did all of this without ever cracking a manual! Gamerival and pooljam work just fine. In a few weeks when I get to know the Mini better I will start a new thread comparing Mac to WinXP. I ordered a few books on Ilife and OSX but they have yet to arrive (slow shipping at Amazon). Thanks for all your help and advice.

Later,

Prpixel,

That's pretty damn impressive and good news to boot. I guess with your prior knowledge, set up was a snap. For a non-networking retouchers like myself, setting something like that up takes a lot of trial and error and manual page flipping. Were you able to find everything you needed by accessing the Networking module in the System Preference pane?

For someone new to Macs, I think getting used to and learning to like OSX might be another matter altogether. I'll be interested to hear what you think. I stay so focused on my small section of Mac-userability that I'll just wait for you to figure everything out and report it to us, heheh.

Thanks and have fun!

Dean,

I can tell you that Apple has the worst customer service; ranks right up there with UPS claims processing department.

I'll give you an update on my impressions of the mini in a few weeks.

later,

What 's going on with yor machine? Did you have to deal with customer service for the set up?

Their customer service isn't very good and their tech support can be even worse. You'd probably do better with problems by searching the Apple Chat Forums. Some hidden bugs and defects that Apple doesn't want the public to know about pop up there. And after time the fixes get posted as well.

Good thing I've always had access to knowledgeable Mac I.S. guys.