Got my Mac mini!

Despite a slight glitch at TNT, I got my Mac mini! It's brilliant

I went for the base model without upgrading the memory so we can use it as a testbed for our games and so far I haven't found anything that doesn't work well with the 256 megs base memory (Nanosaur chugs a bit in places, but hey). One upgrade I did specify for it though was an Airport card (I ordered it before the combi-APE/BT option got cheaper, but a £10 USB BT Dongle works fine) so one of the first tests was to sit it next to the downstairs TV and stream a movie to it over Airport Extreme from one of the Macs upstairs. Works great I've just registered Salling Clicker on it now too so that we can avoid any level of exercise and remote control it from my phone

With the problems I had with the delivery (the Mac mini part of the delivery got lost somewhere at TNT) I can see one minor problem that Apple might have to educate its couriers on. When you ask the average warehouse person to look for a computer that's gone missing, what sort of size box do you think they're going to look for ? It'll be similar to the problem they must have had when they started shipping Apple ]['s and warehouse managers all over the world were looking for boxes the size of houses and ignoring the TV sized ones.

I think I may have spotted a trend with the Mac and the iPod too. First we have the iMac and the iPod, then we had the iPod mini and the Mac mini, now we've got an iPod shuffle. I'm now predicting that the next major Mac release will be the Mac shuffle. It'll be about the size of an iPod and will only run apps in 'Shuffle' mode, thus removing the worry and stress over what app to run next.