The definitive Mac mini/Honey Baked Ham smackdown

The holidays. A time for joy, a time for gathering, a time for product smackdowns. So which is the better buy? A Mac mini or a festive honey baked ham? Let TUAW do the comparison work for you.

Mac mini/Ham Smackdown
Feature	Mac Mini	Honey Baked Ham	Winner
Availability	Apple and a few select vendors	Widely available	Ham.
Cost	From $600, although the $800 model is far superior	$50 or so	With over an order of magnitude difference in price, the ham is the clear winner.
Environmental impact	Contains lots of chemicals but can run on relatively green energy sources, meeting Energy Star requirements.	Completely organic but may produce lots of emissions after a large meal with all the trimmings.	Tie.
Social impact	Lots of fun for your entire family.	Forbidden for consumption by many major religious denominations.	Mac mini.
Geometry	6.5" x 6.5" x 2". A rectangular block.	Spiral cut, conforming to an aesthetically pleasing geometry of curves.	Ham.
TV Compatibility	Works well with both standard def and high def television sets, packaged with Apple Remote.	Can be eaten in front of both standard def and high def television sets, with any standard remote.	Tie.
Documentation	Packaged with full printed and electronic documentation.	No documentation needed. Unless you are Homer Simpson.	Tie.
Leopard Compatibility	Yes.	Yes. But it may give the Leopard indigestion.	Mac mini, by a hair.

View Tags

Source: http://tuaw.com/category/humor

Categories

Hardware Humor Holidays

The holidays. A time for joy, a time for gathering, a time for product smackdowns. So which is the better buy? A Mac mini or a festive...

Add a Comment

Sign in »

46 Comments

Filter by:

Linsay

This is Hot interesting........
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2321441

December 20 2007 at 7:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeff

People around here need to lighten up.

Love the smackdown.

December 18 2007 at 10:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Keith

For all of you that are insulting this post and taking the time to complain about it please do one of the following: A. Smack yourselves repetitively B. Take sharp object aim towards eyes, and fire! C. Grow up.
Seriously it seems like everyone has to be so negative, what are we to busy to enjoy a little laugh now and again. Humor is good for you, stop being so uptight, and just learn to enjoy yourselves just a weee bit. You might be just tad bit happier with yourselves ....

December 17 2007 at 11:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Preshit

And we get only the MacBook in our country :(

December 17 2007 at 9:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

thickslab

This is fucking stupid.

December 17 2007 at 7:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brau

No, but the ham can make your bowels Quake if you eat too much! :)

December 17 2007 at 6:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

larry Friedman

How does the ham compare to the rods some of these people have shoved up their...

December 17 2007 at 3:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Martin Smith

Top post.. Its the holiday season for goodness sake, time to have a little fun... I hope we have a couple more of these articles in the run up to turkey day.

The '2 minutes' guy made me laugh just as much though, thanks for pointing out your stupidity! I vote more posts from him too! :)

ps.. about time we had another iPhone s/w update or what!

pps, I vote Erica the best TUAW blogger, period.

December 17 2007 at 3:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

midbach

I normally ignore posts such as this but TUAW seems to be posting more and more of them lately. I only came to read the comments. It did get me to come to site tho, so you picked up a couple of page views.

Take it as constructive criticism but it wasn't funny.

December 17 2007 at 3:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Luigi193

MY god people!!!

Get a frikin sense of humor! HOLY CRAP! Its a funny Holiday post... Maybe today is a slower news day? Would you rather there be nothing??? You rag on her when she posts about iPhone and when she doesn't.

Alot of you have just posted about leaving because of "what the site is turning into" By all means leave! We won't miss you...

Here comes a 1/2 star... but its ok, I have wanted to get that out for a while now...

Erica, I love you... Don't be offended by these people.

December 17 2007 at 3:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply