You might want to post this in another forum. This one is about EMULATING Macs. Perhaps in Milliways?

Can anyone please move the thread then?

The Mac mini is a pretty good intro and the small form factor is nice. The question to ask is do you have all the extras required for it? It only comes with the box itself, no monitor, keyboard, mouse. If you have to go out and buy a 20" lcd monitor to go with it then the iMac for $1199 starts looking a little better, especially since it comes with a faster processor, 250g hard drive, and a better graphics card than the Mini.

I see your point Xian, i just checked the website and you're 100% right, neither mouse nor keyboard are included. My point is the Mac Mini is a really sweet little box, and would perfectly fit my home office. Is it very expensive to buy the mouse and the keyboard all separate?

You could pretty much use any USB mouse or keyboard, most usually map the Option and Command keys to the Windows key and Option key on those. I don't really like the current Apple keyboard with the flat keys so I just use an old MS Natural Keyboard.

The only issue I have had with the Mighty Mouse is that it is still really a 1 button mouse, just pressure sensitive to which side is pressed. It hasn't been an issue with Mac apps or running Windows in VMWare Fusion, but in old DOS games run in DOSBox the right mouse button function doesn't work using it. I just use a different USB mouse in those cases, actually a Logitech trackball.

Xian, that's something I was also concerned about. Does Dosbox work like a charm on a Mac(leopard) as it does on the pc?

DOSBox runs pretty well from my experience.

I do agree about the mighty mouse, and wish that Apple would release a new version of it that has three discrete buttons instead of one big one. Still, I can't live without it; the ability to scroll horizontally is too nice to pass up. 😀

Thank you Snover for your reply. Now that I've created iso files of all my cd-roms (well, almost all of them) and got Windows 3.11 up and running, I don't wanna even think about abandoning Dosbox. I'm really in love with Mac Mini, and as I'm about to get a new job (means more cash coming in) I hope to put my hands on one by July.

Once again, thank you sir!

Sorry for the late reply, was out of town working. DOSBox works great in Intel OS X, really not any differences between it and the x86 version that I can tell, other than the previously mentioned mouse problem.