{"id":42,"date":"2005-01-12T19:40:57","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T00:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2005-01-12T19:40:57","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T00:40:57","slug":"a-cheap-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/12\/a-cheap-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"A cheap Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Andy Ihnatko&#8217;s writing style. Even better, he always has interesting things to say. This time he has some particularly insightful thoughts about the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macmini\/\">Mac mini<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWIthout further ado, I present to you: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/columns\/ihnatko\/2005\/20050112.shtml\">Thoughts on the Keynote<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>My personal experience is that Andy&#8217;s spot-on in his assessment of the Mac mini as perhaps the &#8220;first true Impulse Buy computer.&#8221; I very nearly clicked the <strong><em>Checkout<\/em><\/strong> button last night in the middle of a deca-minute drool session, during which I tricked out one of the tasty little morsels with a Superdrive and wireless. It took the combined efforts of my super-human will (and my left hand) to pull the mouse pointer over to the <strong><em>Save for later<\/em><\/strong> button, instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Andy Ihnatko&#8217;s writing style. Even better, he always has interesting things to say. This time he has some particularly insightful thoughts about the new Mac mini&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FA-G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}