Sharon,
I thought so, too. I don't know why they call it that other than it is
smaller, much smaller, than a lap top.
Phil.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Mac Attack
What? I thought mini means smallest!
Sharon H.
> On May 15, 2015, at 1:43 PM, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Vicki,
>
> The MacMini is a desktop computer. I run it on wifi but it can connect
> direct to the comcast cable, too. The MacMini has larger hard drive
> storage capabilities that a mac air, and the MacMini has a number of
> additional ports. In short, the Macmini is for fixed usage at a desk and
> the mac air is a netbook style portable laptop sort of thing. The screen
> and keyboard ar built in and it runs on wifi. Mac hard drives are not the
> old hard drives with which we are familiar. They are fusion drives and
> there are no moving parts. All data is stored electronically. That makes
> them many times faster because a physical disk is not turning and
> magnetically recording. Mac also tracks your usage of everything so after
> awhile, it will move some files and programs into a separate area because
> you access fewer times. A long movie, for example, may get moved into a
> holding area so it isn't taking up so much space in the main work area.
> Some macs are both conventional hard drives and fusion drives and the less
> accessed files are stored on the conventional hard drive while all the
> other stuff that is accessed frequently, is stored in the fusion drive
> network. The trackpad does allow you to tap and delete and move and open
> and close programs, turn pages by flicking your finger across the screen
> as it does on the iPhone, so the trackpad just makes it a literal hands on
> access screen. Lots of various gestures available, too. The MacMini can
> also use a full sized 104 or 105 keyboard. I could have purchased a
> smaller keyboard that has no number pad but I wanted the full sized mac
> keyboard made by Das which are the click style keyboards Sandy and I have
> been using for years. The MacMini just allows for more versatility,
> plugging in two screen, for multiple users with separate passwords,
> several ports, and with the 1 terabyte storage, can be used by other
> family members for backups and the like. I ended up buying the least
> expensive mac video screen, 79 dollars, when the others are over 400 on
> up, so anyone using my computer could see what they were doing. Everett
> picked it out and was amazed how clear the Apple 13 inch screen really is
> for that price. I paid a freaking 70 dollars for a wireless mouse for the
> same purpose but a blind person can, to some degree use the mouse to get
> to places quickly. The trackpad basically is a hands on mouse like the
> iPhone features of tapping and flicking and drawing alphabetic letters,
> the letter S, for example, to bring up files with the letter S as a
> prefix. iPhones can do that sort of gesturing, too. The trackpad is
> about 7 by 7 inches and I sit in the other room in my recliner, with the
> volume turned up in the office area, and use the computer that way
> occasionally, haha. Both the macmini and the mac air allow the user to
> answer and initiate phone calls and you can send and receive text messages
> with them both as well in case you phone is hiding in the night stand
> drawer where you left it, haha.
>
> Phil.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vicki" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 9:05 AM
> Subject: Re: Mac Attack
>
>
>> Wonder what the difference is between the Mac Air and the Macmini. Also
>> will that track pad allow you to double tap and delete just like on the
>> phone?
>>
>> Curious me.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 8:39 pm
>> Subject: Mac Attack
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Donna,
>>>
>>> Sandy and I have the I6 iPhones and really enjoy them. Sandy got a Mac
>>> Air
>>> about a year ago. I kept thinking I was going to have to renew my
>>> license
>>> for jaws again and was dreading it. Also, my computer for windows is
>>> about
>>> 12 or 13 years old and having lots of problems from time to time. I
>>> learned
>>> a mac can be formatted to be windows and mac and can be changed from one
>>> to
>>> the other on the fly through hot keys. I have a couple of ham radio
>>> programs that won't work on a mac so I am going to format the macmini
>>> into
>>> both. I also got the trackpad which turns the computer almost into the
>>> iPhone but it allows you to use it like it were a touch screen or the
>>> touch
>>> screen on your iPhone. Do I like the mac? No, I hate it because this
>>> old
>>> man is having to learn everything all over again. I love the Alex voice
>>> in
>>> the mac, the same one in the i6 iPhones, because of my loss of hearing
>>> over
>>> this passed year. Anyhow, the more I learn, the more I like the
>>> macmini.
>>> My i6 and macmini automatically sync and whatever I can do on the phone,
>>> I
>>> can do on the macmini. I got the 1 terabyte machine since I'm basically
>>> going to end up with two computers in one, but even 500 gigs is more
>>> than
>>> I'll ever use. Sandy experience with her mac air has been so positive,
>>> paying all our bills and buying Wal-Mart groceries and having them
>>> delivered
>>> and ordering other things online with the mac, pushed me to make the
>>> decision to go ahead and by the macmini. It's about the size of a cigar
>>> box. The trackpad also allows a blind user to work as well as a sighted
>>> person using a mouse. I haven't gotten to it yet but the macs have a
>>> voice
>>> recognition program I'm trusting will work as well as dragon dictate to
>>> help
>>> me with writing through dictation. National Braille Press has a great
>>> reference book a lady wrote so between that and the mac voice over
>>> mailing
>>> list and Sandy's knowledge, it was now or never, at my age, haha.
>>>
>>> Phil.
>>
>> As Always, Vicki
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