Apple - everyone’s favorite company - seems to have garnered a slight amount of unwarranted, negative press recently - take this Fortune piece that calls Apple TV a “dud” and this one about Apple’s “engage and contain” strategy. It seems what started all this speculation was the iPhone pricing “mistake” that made Apple suddenly fallible. Now we have the “iBrick” - and once an opening is created, the nay-sayers pile in.

Whatever.

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Earlier I mentioned the need for a monitor stand due to setting up the Mac Mini. I had a pretty good idea of what I was looking for - something that would raise up the monitor but allow some space beneath for the diminutive computer.

Of course, it seems pretty much every Mac Mini specific monitor stand is at least $30 if not much more.

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So far, so good, and less work than I had thought. Apple has a great tool called the Migration Assistant, which walks you through some steps. You basically hook up your new Mac to the old one with a Firewire cable, boot the old Mac into target disk mode, indicate which user account to transfer over, and it copies everything over - applications, documents, and even network preferences.

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Kind of an obscure situation here, but I’ll pass it along in case it’s useful for someone else. So I got around to checking out Front Row on the Mac Mini with the included Apple remote (I now see how useful the Mini can be hooked up to an entertainment center). Anyhow, as I was browsing songs on the Mac Mini, I realized it was also activating Front Row on my MacBook.

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Yeah… so we went up to Portland, Oregon for a wedding over the weekend (congrats K & P). Still a really nice place; we went to college there. Not surprising that so many Californians continue to migrate north.

Anyhow, so at the Apple Store in Pioneer Place I picked up a Mac Mini - the cheapest model. My justification was somewhat straightforward for this impulse buy:

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