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Mac mini Review At Macworld
lemonylimey writes "Macworld has the first hands-on review of the new Mac mini along with nicely illustrated step-by-step dissection.
It looks like the mini comes apart easily and (unsuprisingly) uses standard notebook components: a Panasonic DVD-R drive on 'SuperDrive' equipped models, Seagate Momentus 2.5" notebook ATA-100 hard drive and a single, nicely accessible 184 pin DDR DIMM socket. Upgrade options aside, it might not have the clock-for-clock power of the equivalent $499 PC, but you have to ask yourself - If you put them both on a shelf and ask your Mom* to pick one, which one is it going to be? (Yes, I'm sure your Mom is a Doctor of Mathematics and wouldn't buy anything she couldn't run Debian on. You know what I meant.)"
A beowulf cluster of these.
::zombie::
No no, seriously! You could have a little stack of them. You could even built a little pyramid of them, right on your desk! Am I the only one obsessed with this idea!?
Must... purchase... stack of Mac minis...
My question is this. What PCs are currently on the market to compete with this? When my wife asks for the "cute little MAC", what real computer can I buy instead?
Personally, I don't think your "wife" really cares what you buy, as long as you keep her properly inflated.
I know you're trolling, but here's a question for you.
What hard drive controllers are you using in each machine?
If both machines are using ATA-33 or ATA-66 controllers, it's a fair comparison. If the PPro box is using an upgraded controller but the Mac is still using its stock SCSI (which, admittedly, isn't all that great compared to modern ATA, but we ARE talking about a Mac from 1996 here), then this is obviously a very UNfair comparison.
Also, you don't say what OS you're running, but the disk drivers from early PPC Mac OS versions are horribly slow. If the drivers haven't ever been updated since the machine was new, I'm not the least bit surprised that you're seeing very slow disk copies.
Finally, how much RAM does the PPro have?
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I just love my Mac mini, except I still prefer Firefox over Safari, but other than that it rocks! !.25 gig is plenty of speed for everything that I do . Now when my Apple keyboard arrives Mon. I will be complete once again.
I hate it when people talk about photos they took or video they captured but don't bother to provide a link to see them! What's the point? Like we can read your mind or something?
Yeah, it would be nice if you could hook up a VGA monitor. You know, using some sort of adaptor. Like a DVI -> VGA adaptor. It would be really nice if Apple would even throw it in the box!
Oh, wait, they do!
Research first next time.
Great post, but you missed one key factor, in the fact that your premise was entirely flawed.... we want ALL AROUND intelligence.
waited in line in the 18 degree temps outside the Apple store in Kansas City so I could be fifth in line!
Geez, if you're going to wait in line in that sort of temperature, you could at least aim higher than fifth. Why not first?
Kids these days have no amibition.
It doesn't have a floppy drive either.
Sheesh. . . It's 2005 already, get with it.
I was under the impression that you could not use a windows iPod with a MAC ...Is that true?
Of course you can't, iPods don't have ethernet jacks. They don't get assigned a MAC. You can use the USB or Firewire connection and plug them into a Windows PC, Linux PC, or Macintosh, however. Those should all have a MAC if their ethernet is plugged in.