Replacing my ageing Dell PC with a mini mac and will use my plasma as a screen.

I only really use my pc for browsing the net, who doesn't! Saving pictures, iPod, movie trailers, and the odd letter. So really a mac would be ideal for me/us, no viruses, trojans, spy-ware problems as under the skin Mac o/s is unix. Therefore it requires minimal maintenance.

For me it's the ideal media centre.

Anyone have any pro's/cons......

Cheers

Des

Pro's - You will love it and your friends will be jelous as to how small it is. You can run windows on it if you really wanted/needed to

Con's - None for me but software can be one if you use something specialist. You will also have to explain that you can get online and the rest of the normal stuff on a mac lol.

Oww a serious one though, if you have a USB ADSL modem it wont work so get an Ethernet one

mac mini as a media center can work, but bear in mind:

a) no large internal storage for media

no internal tuner

figure on at least a big external drive and a couple of USB tv tuners for it...

Anyone have any pro's/cons......

I prefer a Mac but if you are used to PC's you may find it takes a month or two before you really get to like the Mac. Initially you will get a bit frustrated as you try to 'find' stuff. It's still worth swapping and persevering though as the end result is a better user experience (IMHO)

If after a few months you find you really don't like it you can always install Windows on it. :eek: (Intel macs only)