The mini became a plain old desktop Mac for those who didn’t want an integrated display. The need for an introductory Mac so that users might test drive OS X declined. The mini continued to receive updates, but its role in Apple’s lineup shifted.
Apple’s resurgence coincided with the shift from desktop to notebook computers and thus the preferred entry platform for many into the Mac world were the PowerBook G4, MacBook and MacBook Pro. Interest in Apple has obviously gone up since then. Like many Macs, all it really needed was a memory upgrade. It wasn’t fast, but with a 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 it was quick enough for most of what you needed to do with a Mac back then. In this pre-hackintosh world, Apple was enough of a curiosity that a $499 Mac made a lot of sense. The OS was 10.3, the hardware was a PowerMac G5 and Apple was still the quirky company with a 2% market share.įive years ago I reviewed my third Mac, the very first Mac mini. Six years ago I tried using a Mac exclusively for 30 days.
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