I have purchased a Mac Mini for iPhone Development. I have played with Macs a bit the past few years, but never really sitting and doing anything for long or trying to accomplish anything on it…

So I did spend part of today setting it up and trying it out.

It was an interesting experience. The Mac Mini is nice in that I will just get a KVM switch so I can use the same monitor,keyboard, and mouse as my current development box. I had to buy one ps2 to USB adaptor and the KVM will be around $30 so not too bad with a $600 mini. I expected to have invested a lot more with Apple’s inflated prices (it would have been $100 for their mouse and keyboard and $600 for their monitor).  Though I do still have to buy a Touch for testing. And possibly more RAM.

Initial impressions… It was very nice to setup. I plugged this stuff in and it worked and found and used my wireless network very easily during setup.

But man, I just don’t see why people brag up OS X… Its flaking out and getting in my way more than it is “intuitive and bug free”. Ive already seen system errors in one day of just playing around(it makes the little blue screen jokes that Apple geeks make seem silly, especially since I havent seen one in years)… And trying to watch Developer Videos from iTunes was just plain goofy. It ‘may’ be a little prettier(coming from XP) but some of that was getting in the way of functionality for me as well. Yeah, a few small things were placed nicer in the UI, but others….

 So now I’ve been there and done that, I don’t think I’ll drink the Kool-Aid, and definitely not when the cost is so high for something not really as good.

But who knows maybe my opinion will change…

But I do now have the iPhone SDK up and running and have played with compiling some sample applications and stuff so, now its time to decide where I want to go with it…Ideas?