It’s small, resembles a lunch box, and costs as much as six years of school education. Take the more than Rs 30,000 base price of the mini, add the price of 256 MB of memory—$75 or Rs 3,300—and the official “most affordable Mac ever” tag, while true, seems ludicrous. The mini is obviously a “try me” for the PC crowd, a fact underlined by the missing monitor, keyboard, speakers, and mouse. The question then, is, should you pay a small fortune for a dip in the Mac OS X pool? If your computer usage is bracketed by the tasks of word processing, Internet surfing, e- mailing, listening to MP3s and watching a movie occasionally—then yes, by
all means add the mini to your tech col- lection. The hardware, once beefed up with 256 MB of additional RAM, is good enough to drive these tasks and the odd OpenGL game or two on a 23-inch LCD screen (we tested the mini on one). Mac OS X is a wonderful, user- friendly and mostly consistent OS to work with. If you have the cash and the missing hardware on hand, this Apple experience is indeed worth the price of the ticket.
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