I’m using a 2005 Mac mini as a “standing workstation”:
Mac mini specs: 1.42 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive
Mac OS: 10.4 (“Tiger”)
Uses: web surfing, email, tweeting, blogging, text editing, weather forecasting, To Do list creating, appointment checking, haiku generating…
Software:
- Camino 2
- Thunderbird 3 (Mozilla email client)
- Twitterrific
- MarsEdit
- WriteRoom
- iCal
- Apple Address Book
- dWeather
- Davtri Haiku Generator 2.0
- Acorn (photo editor for humans)
The Mac mini’s built-in Airport card found my refurbished linksys router without any issues.
This Mac mini is by no means a computing powerhouse but it’s proven to be peachy-keen for Word Processing, Text Editing, Web Surfing, Chatting, Photo Editing & Email.
NOTE: Tiger is not the resources piggie that Leopard and Snow Leopard are.
Keyboard:
Pint-sized, aluminum Apple keyboard (sans numeric keypad).
Mouse:
Apple Pro optical mouse (which I think originally came with my late, lamented flat-panel iMac).
External speakers: None whatsoever.
Display:
I connected the 2005 Mac mini to an old 15″ Acer Display (which has a VGA input) with the mini’s included DVI to VGA adapter (shown in the picture below):
