New (?) Mini mac pics

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This is the fist time I've ever thought a Mac was cool... this IS cool!!!

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Dan wrote:

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This is the fist time I've ever thought a Mac was cool... this IS cool!!!

Come on it can´t be the first time?
Colour Classic?
Powerbook 540c? Dont say you didn´t wanted to run WB3.1 on that?
Although not Apple: Umax Pulsar? With a theoretical maximum of 8 CPUs!!!!
So Macs have been cooler before. 8-)

You are right, I do like the PowerBook G4, but it's not as attractive as the MiniMAC

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Argo wrote:
I could see one of these in the living room as part of the entertainment center. When I first looked at this my thought was "This should be an Amiga".
To me the Mac is becoming more and more what I think the Amiga would be like if Commodore hadn't gone under due to the management.

You know what... if the MAC Mini was based on an Athlon64 (but everything else the same), I would have an order in today.

I agree, this is what the Amiga needed to become, but it needed to do it 6 years ago....

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PS I spent my $499 today, but not on a Mac Mini.. I bought an AMD64 3000+ cpu with 512MB DDR memory, A DVD burner, a sleak black tower case with a 400 watt power supply. It has 8 speaker AC97 audio, built in LAN, Firewire, USB 2.0 SATA, IDE, IDE/SATA RAID and a Geforce FX 5900 ultra.. It's also BYOKMD (Bring your own keyboard mouse display) and it hooks right into my HDTV.. I will race anyone with a Mac Mini, or a G4 AmigaOne any day with this unit.. And I have Windows XP 64 bit edition installed by the way..
 

What build of XP64 are you using I have 1069 here, I'm just waiting for my Motherboard to arrive (due on Monday!) and I plan to install it! :-D

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{edit: later thought... What if the Video chip on the mac mini were flashable, meaning it could be upgraded to higher functionality and reallocate memory as needed?}

You must know that's not actually possible... right?

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Wayne wrote:

You must know that's not actually possible... right?

No.  Remember, I've long-since outgrown my technogeek phase, so I'm not at all sure why it wouldn't be possible.  Don't bore me with technical reasons, because I don't really care.  It was just a thought, and considering my lack of knowledge in that area, I'm fully willing to accept "it's not possible" as an answer  

:-)

Whereas computing is concerned, I very much feel like Danny Glover... "I'm gettin too old for this s*it".  I just want a computer that's supported (even if not to the level of Windows) and that "just works".  I do e-mail, web work, and a few games.  The Mac Mini pretty much should fit the bill for me.  Your mileage may vary.

Wayne

Shame, I though you might have stumbled upon a legal, cheap and plentiful supply of safe halucinagenic compounds which you were willing to share :-D

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Holley wrote:
It looks like the hardware is just about exactly what the new MicroA1s should be - if OS4 was made available for it it would be a dream come true.  I have my A3000 for messing around on, getting one of these would just be for serious work ... it's so tempting!

ps. I've always wanted a slot-loading CD drive, I still think my car CD player is neat :-D

Well, I gues we'll just have to plop AROS on there and show 'em how it's done :-D

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Dan wrote:

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I've seen some internal shots; it's a regular DDR DIMM, crammed in on the left? side. Standard height, Apple likes to use cheap commodity parts where the user can't tell the difference.

Good point  I stand corrected.

I guess I shouldn't believe everything I read on the internet. :lol:

So it's back to an insane price, but a slightly more sane design.  :-)

Then people will just buy the 256MB version and then buy a 1GB stick from pc-store.Remove the 256MB mem and put it in a free slot in a desktop and the 1GB in the MacMini.

First mac-user lesson don´t buy it from apple unless you have to! :-D

Don't say that!!! Then no one would buy a Mac!!!

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Dan wrote:

bloodline wrote:

Dan wrote:
First mac-user lesson don´t buy it from apple unless you have to! :-D

Don't say that!!! Then no one would buy a Mac!!!

Many people want Mac just not an Apple Mac, that´s why Jobs killed the clones. Mac gained marketshare like crazy back then but Apple lost.
Apple would have been in a much better position without Jobs.

I have to disagree... Apple would be gone if it were not for Jobs. The Mac Cone makers probably would have developed cheaper/better compatible PPC hardware and BeOS would have ruled a very active PPC market.

The PPC market would have turned into another PC market, then M$ would have brought out Window98 PPC... and that would be the end of the story :-D