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mijenix
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Hi
Look at this: http://www.apple.com/macmini/
Thats looks very nice! Maybe I will buy it that I can play with MacOS or I use it with Gentoo Linux 
What do you think?
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it looks better than an Xbox for use as a media center type thing! im dissappointed though cause I was hoping for a totally new powerbook to come out of this expo.
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Holy crap! They actually did it! For $500 I may have to buy a Mac.
EDIT:
The radeon 9200 isn't exactly hot stuff anymore, but if you want to run Linux on it, it will work with the X.org open-source radeon driver. A good thing, too since I think the binary ati drivers are x86 only.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: Mac mini |
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That's a really neat box! Sweet! 
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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OMG OMG OMG me wants one!!1!eleven!!
P. S.: The Apple Store is under DDOS attack right now, appearantly. Must... order... now...! |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| lagrima wrote: | | it looks better than an Xbox for use as a media center type thing! im dissappointed though cause I was hoping for a totally new powerbook to come out of this expo. |
Triple the price though!
Xbox media center more than sufficient for me, it streams web radio, itunes, iFilms, apple movie trailers, you name it. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Headrush wrote: | | lagrima wrote: | | it looks better than an Xbox for use as a media center type thing! im dissappointed though cause I was hoping for a totally new powerbook to come out of this expo. |
Triple the price though!
Xbox media center more than sufficient for me, it streams web radio, itunes, iFilms, apple movie trailers, you name it. |
True, the only thing that bugs me about the xbox is the lack of a damn 'on' button for the remote. Everything else is perfect.
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nothing new. i can put togeather a similar x86 machine for less.
this is a very bad move if they want to compete in the low end market, no monitor and keyboard when all the other low end pc makers have monitor, keyboard, mouse, and printer included for about the same price.
the only good things about it are that is is quiet and small. |
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Who's gonna hack it with a PSOne for the screen?
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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the only good things about it are that is is quiet and small. |
and it runs osx. big selling point in the days of spyware mania /virus/etc.
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| Trevoke wrote: | | Who's gonna hack it with a PSOne for the screen? |
You're getting dangerously close to a laptop there 
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| truekaiser wrote: | nothing new. i can put togeather a similar x86 machine for less.
this is a very bad move if they want to compete in the low end market, no monitor and keyboard when all the other low end pc makers have monitor, keyboard, mouse, and printer included for about the same price.
the only good things about it are that is is quiet and small. |
I always replace those things with stuff I want anyways.
Those low end systems always have the worst keyboard and mice I have every seen. After switching to a logitech MX700 it's amazing how much less wrist pain I get.
I'm not sure of the actual dimensions but that would sure be nice for a student in a tiny dormroom if you attached a nice LCD. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Headrush wrote: | | truekaiser wrote: | nothing new. i can put togeather a similar x86 machine for less.
this is a very bad move if they want to compete in the low end market, no monitor and keyboard when all the other low end pc makers have monitor, keyboard, mouse, and printer included for about the same price.
the only good things about it are that is is quiet and small. |
I always replace those things with stuff I want anyways.
Those low end systems always have the worst keyboard and mice I have every seen. After switching to a logitech MX700 it's amazing how much less wrist pain I get.
I'm not sure of the actual dimensions but that would sure be nice for a student in a tiny dormroom if you attached a nice LCD. |
Yeah, this is a very good move if Apple wants to move into the low end market. Everyone I know who would benefit from the Mac-Mini already has a decent monitor, keyboard and mouse from their old computer - why should they waste money to get the usual POS monitor that dell ships with their $500 computers?
It's also pretty nice that it has a Radeon 9200. It's nothing special but good enough to play games like WC3 and WOW, probably the most popular Mac games. It also comes with functional bluetooth which is awesome, pair this up with either the Logitech or Microsoft Bluetooth mouse and you've got yourself one hell of a setup.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe it could be intresting as a 'build' station for distcc??? If you put them on each other (that would I do if I had money to much...)
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Has the mini mac a fan or is it cooled passively, what do you think? |
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| Voltago wrote: | | Has the mini mac a fan or is it cooled passively, what do you think? |
no fan, completely passive cooled. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, its a very bad move for apple competing on the PC market because the mac mini will be vulnerable to spyware.....whoops nm im retarded
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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its should be a pretty snappy machine with a 1.25GHz G4 and all
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| truekaiser wrote: | | Voltago wrote: | | Has the mini mac a fan or is it cooled passively, what do you think? |
no fan, completely passive cooled. |
This seems to be wrong. On the german page i read the following:
http://www.apple.com/de/macmini/design.html
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Dank eines winzigen Lüfters arbeitet der Mac mini so leise [...]
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Translated:
... because of a small fan the mac mini works so quietly ... |
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1. i mentioned nothing about spyware.
2. i stand corrected on the fan
3. the toy is aimed at people who don't have a pc yet are suposed to have a keyboard, mouse and flatscreen moniter around(says nothing about having a dvi to vga converter) either way joe blow is going to look at this think wtf no monitor,keyboard, and mouse? then move on to a similar(and argueably faster but thats debateable) pc that has all that in the $500 price range plus printer and maybe speakers.
i won't be surprised if their emac out sells this. |
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3. the toy is aimed at people who don't have a pc yet are suposed to have a keyboard, mouse and flatscreen moniter around(says nothing about having a dvi to vga converter) either way joe blow is going to look at this think wtf no monitor,keyboard, and mouse? then move on to a similar(and argueably faster but thats debateable) pc that has all that in the $500 price range plus printer and maybe speakers.
i won't be surprised if their emac out sells this. |
I'm not sure that it is aimed at people who dont have a pc. Apples entire marketing strategy right now is to try and get people to switch.
Joe blow ( who probably will have a computer already ) will think "They are so small and fast. There is no spyware. I want ten, why can't I buy them on the home shopping network."
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| porodzila wrote: | | truekaiser wrote: |
3. the toy is aimed at people who don't have a pc yet are suposed to have a keyboard, mouse and flatscreen moniter around(says nothing about having a dvi to vga converter) either way joe blow is going to look at this think wtf no monitor,keyboard, and mouse? then move on to a similar(and argueably faster but thats debateable) pc that has all that in the $500 price range plus printer and maybe speakers.
i won't be surprised if their emac out sells this. |
I'm not sure that it is aimed at people who dont have a pc. Apples entire marketing strategy right now is to try and get people to switch.
Joe blow ( who probably will have a computer already ) will think "They are so small and fast. There is no spyware. I want ten, why can't I buy them on the home shopping network." |
then show them linux and have them save 500 bucks(thats if you don't upgrade the ram to a usable level. which you can't do yourself it voids the warentee.) |
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Huh? Why does anybody need so much ram. And on a mac? not only does OSX use less ram than windows, unless your doing gaming or graphics intensive work, you simply don't need that much ram. 256M is plenty usable and fits well within in the scope of that machine. and who cares if the warrenty is broke, the machine will never break anyway.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 2:51 am Post subject: |
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i am assuming mac os x is more user friendly than linux and im sure they can use the "tech support"
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| porodzila wrote: | | Huh? Why does anybody need so much ram. And on a mac? |
In my experience, 256MB is not enough memory for a Mac (with OS X, anyway). They have run much better with 512MB and even 1GB.
That said, I finally have a good option to satisfy my Mac-at-home appetite.
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