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RE: Mini-Mac essentials?




Just buy an airport card for the mac.

Plug it in .. and it will join your existing wireless network .. that is
it!

Once your wife uses the mac she will love it no need to talk about it
before hand.

Ho yin

At 08:30 28/02/2005, you wrote:

>Well that's good; still need to go wireless though; what's the least
painful
>(technically and financially) way?
>
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>From: Don McAllister [mailto:donmc@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 27 February 2005 23:38
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Mini-Mac essentials?
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>
>Peter,
>
>There;s not a lot else you need to be honest.
>
>The only extras I bought were extra memory, a mac keyboard and an iMic
>to add a microphone input to the mac mini. Oh, and I also bought a
>really cheap USB hub.
>
>If you're looking to share the mini with a PC you might want a USB
>based KVM but really I don't use mine very much. Most of my access is
>via the mac using MS Remote Desktop.
>
>Cheers
>Don
>
>
>On 27 Feb 2005, at 12:55, White, Peter wrote:
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> >
> > So what else do I need to buy to compliment my new baby Mac? 
It's the
> > vanilla version, so I need to get it wireless-enabled - what's
the
> > easiest &
> > cheapest way to do this?  I'm currently using a Netgear DG834.
> > Unfortunately the Linksys USB2/WiFi dongle that I use in the PC
> > doesn't have
> > any Mac drivers.  Other than that, I'm just getting a keyboard,
and
> > using a
> > Stark/MS mouse that I already have.  Memory will need to be
sneaked in
> > later
> > on.
> >
> > Anything else?
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> >
> > Pete
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