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Macintosh - Mac Mini aficionados please help

I'm thinking about purchasing a mac mini for my wife's system. One of her favorite websites is gamerival.com. Can somebody please tell me if this site is compatible with the mac. If it's not, then I'm going to have to look elsewhere for a small and quit system. I've been wanting to try a mac for some time and this gives me a reason to jump over the windows XP fence and see what's on the other side.

Thanks,
prpixel
cupmit
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Yes! - Mac mini will drive the 20 & 23 inch cinema displays...and many others...

http://www.apple.com/macmini/graphics.html

Your criticism of Apple's tech support has no grounds today...quote: Gunbei - "It's a good thing I haven't had to call tech support in years."

Times change - Go Visit the Genius Bar at an Apple store...amazing.
prpixel OP
876 posts
 
Dean,

Microsoft has a great deal for tech support; $35.00 to solve your problem or your money back. Of course, this is after your 90 day free support expires. There were some times when I had winME (big mistake) that I would be on the phone with them for ever.

Another thing that MS has is a huge knowledge base. I had a friend that had a problem with his HP printer and WinXP a few weeks ago. I was able to search the knowledge base and find out how to get control of wireless network setup back from the HP driver. Within an hour I had his new HP all-in-one printing and scanning over his network and the wireless running better than before. I don't know if Apple has anything comparable; I have not had time to snoop around the Apple support pages.

Cupmit,

Can you send me the URL for the Apple Genius Bar?

Thanks,
gunbei
2,327 posts
 
Actually, my criticism still holds. I haven't personally called Apple tech support in nine years, but I know many Apple I.S. guys that deal with them all the time and still to this day hate Apple tech support.

I'm not talking about the 'why doesn't my Mac's cupholder not pop out anymore?' type of questions. Apple support won't tell you or even know why we had to allocate exactly 67.19% [something like that, heheh] of our available RAM to Photoshop to get it to run right. We found that out in an either an Adobe or Apple forum. When some of friend's Firewire drives were getting erased after installing the newest OSX Security Update from Apple, guess who didn't have the answer? You betcha! There's no way they were gonna let this one out. Another time the forums had the answer for us. Maybe Apple tech support is fine for telling you how to install, set up or troubleshoot basic things, but when it gets to the real stuff they're AWOL and you're SOL.
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