Like shaving against the grain

Forgive me father, for I have sinned.

I just bought a mac.

The PC I had built for my dad previously has gone kaput. It wasn't well suited for a naive user anyway. Problems inevitably come up, so an easier to use system seemed more appropriate.

So it's a svelte little Mac Mini. Apple has always had great industrial design, but my gawd, this is the slowest computer ever. Chugging along anemically, only occasional commands are carried out. RAM's so cheap! Why not just ship with something a bit more reasonable performance and show off OS X?!

Geek-mode OFF... for a bit.