Where I think Apple did mess up a little was by providing only 256Mb of RAM as standard. With this little memory the machine is going to be swapping a lot and with that slow drive this is going to slow it down quite a bit. This is one case where paying for an extra 256Mb is going to be really worth the money.
Definitely. Before I upgraded my Mini to 1GB, it was swapping constantly when I had both RSSOwl and OmniWeb running at the same time. Unless you're only running apps with a small memory footprint, a Mac with only 256M is almost a single-tasking machine.
I don't know if it makes me stupid or not, but I bought my mini because it was an OS X machine at a reasonable price.
I've used Windows, Linux and various flavors of UNIX at work and at home, but never a Mac. I've been interested in OS X ever since it first appeared, but the cost was always high enough to make me hesitate. The Mini's price was low enough for me to go ahead and make an impulse purchase.
The verdict so far? I love this little machine! And OS X is as pleasant to use as I imagined it would be after reading ATPM and other Mac sites. Now I'm seriously thinking about one of those Powerbooks...
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Definitely. Before I upgraded my Mini to 1GB, it was swapping constantly when I had both RSSOwl and OmniWeb running at the same time. Unless you're only running apps with a small memory footprint, a Mac with only 256M is almost a single-tasking machine.
I don't know if it makes me stupid or not, but I bought my mini because it was an OS X machine at a reasonable price. I've used Windows, Linux and various flavors of UNIX at work and at home, but never a Mac. I've been interested in OS X ever since it first appeared, but the cost was always high enough to make me hesitate. The Mini's price was low enough for me to go ahead and make an impulse purchase. The verdict so far? I love this little machine! And OS X is as pleasant to use as I imagined it would be after reading ATPM and other Mac sites. Now I'm seriously thinking about one of those Powerbooks...