Macintosh - Mac Mini aficionados please help

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.

I just want to comment on Apple's customer service. I bought my first Mac in 1995, which is still very useful. My son uses it. We also have an iMac for my son and my wife has an iBook, and I now use a dual chip tower which is about 3 years old. With all of these computers we never once had to call Apple for help. The computers are built really well and are simple to use and fix. The old pre OS X operating system was very simple to troubleshoot and the current OS X system has been totally trouble free and crash proof.
I use Windows at work which I also like but we need to have MIS specialists take care of them to keep them running Virus's and adware are a big problem with them.
Bob