The MacMini..., Awesome. Options

[Riel]

Never checked into the Mac stuff but i have to admit this looks awesome.Plug and play PC's aren't that far away for people interested in this...i know Uni will love this hehe...

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

[Oddies da Nerfed]

Unfortunatly, this is a mac, not a pc. Whole different beast here, different hardware and software architecture. Which means that unless programs are specificly ported to a mac, they generaly WONT run. There are emulators on mac's much like linux that make it pretend its windows to run apps/games. But these are never a guarantee untill you find em and look at the list of apps/games the run for any you want to run.

This dosent mean mac's are bad, they are very nice machines. But they are generaly even less of a game machine than a linux based pc due to lack of games writen for it.
Now for just browsin the web, writing papers and general "home office" kinda stuff, itd be pretty killer. Beyond that, and you start to run into the limitations of mac not being compible with the monopoly of windows based pc.

Sadly i dont have much experience with windows emulators for mac. So i cannot say for sure what will/wont run right now.