Apple Mac Mini Review

I use a Mac Pro myself, running Windows XP occasionally with VM Ware from my Boot Camp partition. I like that I can add extra video cards (currently running 3 monitors, 2 plus TV-out to my plasma) and have a bunch of hard drives. But this made a nice gift for my Mom who had been struggling with Windows. XP got ok over time, but Vista was horrible. Windows 7 is a little better, but not much, and would have slowed her PC down even more. Already running at a crawl. Even without all the spyware and viruses. So I set her up with a Mac mini and she loves it. It's actually gotten even faster with OS X 10.6. All she does is check her e-mail, surf the web a little, write up documents sometimes, and play a few games like Snood and Bejeweled. You can actually go a little cheaper with a refurbished machine, my only real complaint that Macs can still be a little more expensive, especially if you don't need all the extra stuff, but it's not too bad. Love the compact size. Just added an extra hard drive for the Time Machine backup, and with a little configuring, she's good to go. Also bought her Macs for Dummies, that helped a lot.