Sharon,

It doesn't run off batteries and it is desk top because they can put more 
ports for externals on it than a laptop or a netbook.  It is an in between 
computer before going to a larger desktop machine.

Phil.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: Mac Attack


But I don't exactly understand.  Why is it considered a desktop?


Sharon H.

> On May 16, 2015, at 12:13 PM, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> 
> wrote:
>
> Sharon,
>
> No tower.  The entire computer is about the size of a cigar box, that is, 
> about 11 inches by 11 inches and 2 inches thick.  The keyboard, and screen 
> plug into USB ports and the trackpad, that operates as a touch screen, is 
> wireless and the mouse is wireless.  You can run a wireless keyboard, of 
> course, if you wish.  I only have the screen and the mouse for sighted 
> users.
>
> Phil.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 7:35 AM
> Subject: Re: Mac Attack
>
>
> So, the keyboard and pad is smaller than a laptop, but it's tethered to a 
> tower that keeps it from being portable?
>
>
> Sharon H.
>
>> On May 15, 2015, at 8:45 PM, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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