I got my Mini yesterday and ever since have been suffering something of a informational-technological-existential crisis. It's not the mini's fault, it's mine. OS X is as delightful to use as I remember -- my only gripe is that the system is a little on the pokey side (especially compared to my 2.5ghz, Gig of ram PC.)
My problem now is that I have 4 PCs that I use regularly, but I want to have 1 place to store everything. Bookmarks, Documents, Music.. I don't want to have to hunt around or search for it. I can attempt to put it all on the Mini since its networking software plays very well with Windows (almost better than my laptop's copy of XP).
I don't really have time to sit down and sort all this stuff out, though.
I guess first thing's first: re-learn bash. Re-learn OS X keyboard shortcuts. Buy longer cable. Clean room. Re-arrange room to fit all stuff on the shelf.
All these things are incompatible with having an actual life. Tough being me.
Posted by eric at April 19, 2005 10:57 PM
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You really need to just sit down and stare at a picture of a starving child for an hour. Then read your post again.
Posted by: Edwardo at April 19, 2005 11:45 PM
Go and see the nice people at Apple. I'm sure they will be only too happy to craft an elegant and only slightly extortionately-priced solution to your problem. They're like that.
I guess first thing's first: re-learn bash. Re-learn OS X keyboard shortcuts. Buy longer cable. Clean room. Re-arrange room to fit all stuff on the shelf.
Or perhaps amalgamate some of the functions of your 4 computers and get rid of one or more of them? Blasphemy, I know, but maybe you could just swill the idea around for a while.
Posted by: blandwagon at April 20, 2005 12:11 AM
I'm awarding three bleeding heart points to Edwardo with an honorary "Cry me a river" merit badge. Unfortunately, given the sheer amount of time he spends in soup kitchens, he may never receive them.
(Yes, I know that attitude is indicative of "all that's wrong with the world".)
Uhh.. What was I saying?
GET RID OF THE COMPUTERS??? That's a bigtime minus two geek points from blandyboy. Unfortunately, I think 4 is the minimum set I can realistically survive with (work machine, laptop, PC for games, now the mac). I have two more, but they're just sitting fallow at the moment.
Posted by: Eric at April 20, 2005 09:44 AM