More on the Mini

A lot of excitement was generated by the unveiling of this cute little computing item (from real people as much as techies interested in how much Apple crammed into what The Register mistook for a "sandwich box"). Finally, an affordable Apple. Wednesday The Register added its take on the $499 Mini from an average home user's perspective. The best review of this sort I've seen is Rob Pegoraro's at the Washington Post. But for families with PCs who aren't ready to go whole-hog Mac, SafeKids.com's Larry Magid provides a great alternative: network your Mini and PC together and have them share mouse, keyboard, and monitor. "At the risk of offending some Apple enthusiasts, Windows users could think of the Mini as a PC peripheral," Larry writes in the New York Times. It's done with a KVM switch (for "keyboard, video, and mouse"). Larry explains in detail how it works.