Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Most people I know who want a Mac mini want to run it concurrently with their existing Windows machine. Usually that means you need a KVM switch to change a single keyboard and mouse between systems. If you have two displays, one USB keyboard, one USB mouse, a Mac mini, and a Windows system, there is a free software solution that will spare you the cost of a KVM switch.

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Since publishing my first two Mac mini case studies, the biggest criticism I’ve received is that adding the 512MB DIMM to the configuration is often unnecessary and shouldn’t be so easily added to the cost of the machine. It seems that Apple would disagree with that opinion, because when it sends machines to reviewers, it supplies 512MB RAM.

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