My New Computer - Apple Mac Mini (Mac OS X Lion)

Well... to be honest, it isn't new now, I have had it over two months, but have only just thought about putting it in my blog - sorry!

I purchased it in October, and because of my Alzheimer's Disease, I want to do some things I have never tried or done before, why I still can, and because I am only in the early stages of the disease - forgetful and sometimes slightly confused (some would say I have always been like that!) - and hopefully have a few years left where I can still be aware of things, I decided that I would like to try a Mac computer... well you will notice from one of my previous blogs, that I ventured into this with the Apple eMac I purchased earlier in the year... this whetted my appetite, and because the system was quite old (Mac OS X Tiger 10.4) and the specs weren't that good for modern computing nowadays, I decided to upgrade and 'go for it'. I got the Mac Mini at a very reasonable price, brand new, from the Apple Store, and to be honest, it blew my mind! I wished I had an Apple Mac all those years ago (well at least when Mac OS X was released) - it puts Windows and the Linux OS in the shade, it really does.

It has the latest Apple operating system, Mac OS X Lion 10.7, and really is smooth to run, hardly using any resources, and it only has 2GB of memory, but manages to run multiple things, quite comfortably. Installing 'Apps' is as simple as dropping the App into the Applications folder, and the Mac does the installing from there - no messing about with where to install, how to install - and when you are done, you just drag the App out of the Applications folder and into the Trash Bin, and thats it - it's uninstalled! No complicated uninstall to go through.

The one thing I will gripe about it though is the internet browsing... when you are on Flash pages, all the browsers that you can use on Mac OS X (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera etc) run very slowly, probably because I only have 2GB memory, and it saps it all - it isn't good with Flash at all - but that is a small price to pay for the quality, happiness and enjoyment the computer has brought me in the long run.

It is a shame that Steve Jobs, one of the co-founders of Apple, died on the day I decided to have my first Apple computer... he was a very clever man, and probably told St Peter at the Pearly Gates, to put his pen down when he got to him, and said: "I have an App for that"! Be at Peace Steve, you can be very proud of what you achieved for all the world to use with your Apple products!

Congratulations Apple, on the invention of both the Mac Mini and your latest operating system, Mac OS X Lion - you have done the computing world proud!