Mac Mini vs Macbook

Caveman.

Caveman.

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I know lots of people with Mac books but I have never seen a Mac Mini. Are they basically a laptop without the display/keyboard/mouse/ etc?? I need to upgrade from my Powerbook to something with an Intel chip so I can run bootcamp and autocad. A laptop is nice but I only use it as a laptop 3 times a year or so. At home I have it set up pretty much as a desktop (I have a nice widescreen monitor, speakers, etc..) So basically I need to know if a Macbook is that much better than the Mac mini.
 
Mac Mini $914

2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB

160GB Serial ATA drive

SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

Macbook $1199

2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB

160GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm

SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

Obviously the Macbook has a faster slightly faster processor but everything else is identical.
 
Lol, I have no idea what that is... Their website says the Mac Mini frontside bus is 667MHz is that considerably slower?
 
Yeah, that computer would get outdated pretty fast. I mean its fine, but for like 200$ more you get a nice screen and a faster processor, so why not? And macbook has better resale value
 
Hey thanks for turning this thread into another immature NS battle between Mac and PC. If I would have wanted that I could have bumped one of the countless threads in NSG. I know that there are pros and cons of PCs and Mac but thats not what I asked for is it? I like mac OS better than any Windows OS (Shitty as Vista blue screened on me twice yesterday at school doing word processing) So I will be running Leapord for everything and XP solely for Autocad. Now does anyone have any advice that would help answer my question?
 
hahaha i say...neither. iMac all the way but if you have to choose and you have the money get the macbook. there is a little more power in it and it has the portability of a notebook. but yeah... iMacs are the best choice if you ask me.
 
Yeah, they do actually, and it happened twice yesterday in my schools library on their new computers with Vista. They just got Dell's knockoff of the imac, the XPS or whatever its called:

dell-xps-one.jpg
 
that may be true...but honestly i am on my comp probably 3-5 hrs avg per day and i have never had one of those....the last time i remembe getting one of those was like 5 desktops ago for me were the computer had like 256 ram and 200mb hardrive or something...honestly you are it more likely a laptop battery setting on fire then getting that blue screen
 
hahah i still got blue screens on xp. and i just cant stand vista. personal preference more than anything though. i love my mac cuz its simple and does what i need it to do. as for the original post. go macbook. more option + portability
 
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