The need for a combined anniversary gift (12 years today) and Mother’s Day gift found me at the Apple Store yesterday: I got the size right but not the color. Silver wasn’t on, and a tie between blue and green was resolved in person.
Pretty neat little things. Sadly, the lack of a Firewire cable and the fact that is connected to a 2000 model iMac DV (with 12 Mbit/s USB 1) makes things a little less than excellent. My FireWire cable works for the mini but I don’t seem to be having any luck with the USB cable.
So far, so good. I have about 2.5 Gb of music moved onto it. I really think a mini is enough for anyone but the obsessive or anyone who isn’t near their music collection for days at a time. You’re unlikely to get through that much music in a day or so . . .
At some point, it would make sense to merge all the music collections into one (I have one on my laptop, I have a backup downstairs, and now we have another that overlaps mine without being a subset of it). Perhaps I’ll see if Tiger offers a more robust automounter that Panther’s . . .