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Title: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: Sandman on July 04, 2010, 04:23:21 AM
Yippee.

I finally found myself a Mac Mini today,  1.5ghz w/ 1gb ram, OSX 10.5 .... $130 (not too bad I hope.). Soon to have MorphOS on it..... I can't wait.

BTW, I never touched a Mac before and am already impressed using the Mac OS, it seems nice compared to Vista.

My only worries are now my Amiga and C64 projects get put on the back burner a little longer.... too many projects but soooo much fun!
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 04, 2010, 04:57:21 AM
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Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 04, 2010, 05:12:19 AM
Quote from: Sandman;568860
Yippee.

I finally found myself a Mac Mini today,  1.5ghz w/ 1gb ram, OSX 10.5 .... $130 (not too bad I hope.). Soon to have MorphOS on it..... I can't wait.

BTW, I never touched a Mac before and am already impressed using the Mac OS

There,  you see!
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 04, 2010, 05:19:13 AM
Is this woo-hoo? It's just a bunch of garbage?

I mean, whatever,
Amiga Rules !!!!!!
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 04, 2010, 05:34:15 AM
Quote from: halvliter'n;568861
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What is the problem exactly?:confused:
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: kolla on July 04, 2010, 05:38:50 AM
Quote from: halvliter'n;568864
What is the problem exactly?:confused:


Indeed, why is this idiot hindered from ridiculing himself?

@Sandman
Congrats with your new toy.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: drHirudo on July 04, 2010, 05:57:32 AM
Quote from: Sandman;568860
Yippee.

I finally found myself a Mac Mini today,  1.5ghz w/ 1gb ram, OSX 10.5 .... $130 (not too bad I hope.). Soon to have MorphOS on it..... I can't wait.

BTW, I never touched a Mac before and am already impressed using the Mac OS, it seems nice compared to Vista.


Are you sure it is PPC Mac?
MOS won't work on Intel MiniMacs!
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 04, 2010, 05:59:22 AM
Quote from: kolla;568865
Indeed, why is this idiot hindered from ridiculing himself?

@Sandman
Congrats with your new toy.

It was not what he should use it to..!... Wonder if I should not care about the Amiga for a while and let others take over. OK, I stick to Windows..
MorphOS and AmigaOS is so far behind, there is no point to support them.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: B00tDisk on July 04, 2010, 06:02:26 AM
Quote from: drHirudo;568866
Are you sure it is PPC Mac?
MOS won't work on Intel MiniMacs!


Obviously I can't speak for the man but the odds are it is a PPC MacMini - there were some 1.5ghz intel models released but they almost immediately jumped up to 1.66 and beyond.

Not saying it isn't, and by "some" of course even for Apple means several tens of thousands, just that the odds on would be that it's a PowerPC based one.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 04, 2010, 06:30:05 AM
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Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: redrumloa on July 04, 2010, 06:33:47 AM
Quote from: halvliter'n;568864
What is the problem exactly?:confused:

You were asked politely to read the TOS and then warned twice. Your posts have been reported as trolling by long established members repeatedly. Please read the Posting Guidelines (http://www.amiga.org/index.php?pageid=posting_guidelines). Repeated violations and disregard to polite requests will eventually result in suspension of service.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 04, 2010, 06:48:20 AM
Quote from: redrumloa;568871
You were asked politely to read the TOS and then warned twice. Your posts have been reported as trolling by long established members repeatedly. Please read the Posting Guidelines (http://www.amiga.org/index.php?pageid=posting_guidelines). Repeated violations and disregard to polite requests will eventually result in suspension of service.

Yes I know this forum is for allaroundjunkies, and I do not care if I get banned. I have much more to choose from. And of course old Amiga Rules!!!
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: Sandman on July 04, 2010, 06:59:23 AM
Yes, it is a 1.5ghz PPC machine....

Dude, chill out........ I love Amiga too can't you tell by my sig?

:)
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: pVC on July 04, 2010, 09:24:53 AM
Quote from: Sandman;568860
Yippee.

I finally found myself a Mac Mini today,  1.5ghz w/ 1gb ram, OSX 10.5 .... $130 (not too bad I hope.). Soon to have MorphOS on it..... I can't wait.


Wow, that's cheap! I'd buy 3rd mini for that price ;) Happy MorphOS'ing!
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: takemehomegrandma on July 04, 2010, 10:27:36 AM
Quote from: Sandman;568860
Yippee.

I finally found myself a Mac Mini today,  1.5ghz w/ 1gb ram, OSX 10.5 .... $130 (not too bad I hope.). Soon to have MorphOS on it..... I can't wait.


Congratulations! :)

That's a very good price, especially if it's a silent upgrade (64MB VRAM) and not just a slightly overclocked 1.42GHz one (but that one is fine too).

Welcome aboard!

:)
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: Piru on July 04, 2010, 10:56:12 AM
Quote from: Sandman;568860
Yippee.

I finally found myself a Mac Mini today,  1.5ghz w/ 1gb ram, OSX 10.5 .... $130 (not too bad I hope.).

That's a very nice price.

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Soon to have MorphOS on it..... I can't wait.

BTW, I never touched a Mac before and am already impressed using the Mac OS, it seems nice compared to Vista.

You probably want to keep the system as dual boot (Mac OS X and MorphOS) then. Here are the instructions on how to do it:
http://dreamolers.binaryriot.org/dualboot.pdf
or
http://wiki.morphos-user.com/index.php/Dual-boot_MorphOS_and_MacOS_X_on_a_Mac_Mini_G4

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My only worries are now my Amiga and C64 projects get put on the back burner a little longer.... too many projects but soooo much fun!

:)
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: som99 on July 04, 2010, 11:58:31 AM
Quote from: Sandman;568860
Yippee.

I finally found myself a Mac Mini today,  1.5ghz w/ 1gb ram, OSX 10.5 .... $130 (not too bad I hope.). Soon to have MorphOS on it..... I can't wait.

BTW, I never touched a Mac before and am already impressed using the Mac OS, it seems nice compared to Vista.

My only worries are now my Amiga and C64 projects get put on the back burner a little longer.... too many projects but soooo much fun!


Congratulations! Thats a good price, now install MorphOS and have fun!
When you got time check if it's the 32MB or 64MB videoram version!
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: gertsy on July 04, 2010, 12:22:36 PM
Quote from: kolla;568865
Indeed, why is this idiot hindered from ridiculing himself?

@Sandman
Congrats with your new toy.


Agree, This guy has had me in tears several times now.  Good value free entertainment.

$130 sounds pretty damn okay to me.. Have fun.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: gertsy on July 04, 2010, 12:29:17 PM
Quote from: redrumloa;568871
You were asked politely to read the TOS and then warned twice. Your posts have been reported as trolling by long established members repeatedly. Please read the Posting Guidelines (http://www.amiga.org/index.php?pageid=posting_guidelines). Repeated violations and disregard to polite requests will eventually result in suspension of service.


Ohhh, No fair.  Surely we can forgive and forget.  Unless the language or content was inappropriate ?

I'm gonna miss halvliter'n......
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: Piru on July 04, 2010, 12:38:59 PM
(http://image.bayimg.com/nanknaach.jpg)
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: gertsy on July 04, 2010, 12:40:54 PM
Quote from: Piru;568902
(http://image.bayimg.com/nanknaach.jpg)


Here is an example of a helpful post from halvliter'n:

 Re: BBC News Amiga mention

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Quote:
Originally Posted by kolla  
Do I need to be locate in UK to watch this?
The flash player starts here, but shows nothing but a spinning circle.

Works fine here with Firefox and the latest flash player.
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See he's not all bad,  There is some good left in him.. I sense it.....
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: Sandman on July 05, 2010, 04:39:31 AM
Quote from: som99;568895
Congratulations! Thats a good price, now install MorphOS and have fun!
When you got time check if it's the 32MB or 64MB videoram version!


Yes, its the 64mb vram version.... the only thing it doesn't have is wifi and bluetooth but I am hoping to install that in the future.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: pVC on July 05, 2010, 05:36:33 AM
Quote from: Sandman;569033
Yes, its the 64mb vram version.... the only thing it doesn't have is wifi and bluetooth but I am hoping to install that in the future.


64M vram version should come with those pre-installed.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: Sandman on July 05, 2010, 05:42:01 AM
Quote from: pVC;569037
64M vram version should come with those pre-installed.


Yes, I believe so.  But, unfortunately, I think the original owner removed both the wifi and bluetooth for another one of his Macs. :(  Didn't discover that  until I got home but I think I just got a lead for another Mini that has these.

What have I gotten myself into! :)
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: som99 on July 05, 2010, 05:56:34 AM
Quote from: Sandman;569039
Yes, I believe so.  But, unfortunately, I think the original owner removed both the wifi and bluetooth for another one of his Macs. :(  Didn't discover that  until I got home but I think I just got a lead for another Mini that has these.

What have I gotten myself into! :)


What now, wait just a minute, you won a Mini for 130$ but now you are bidding on anotherone?
Just so you know, neither wifi or bluetooth works under MorphOS, so why are you bidding on one more machine when you just boght one?
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: Sandman on July 05, 2010, 06:58:53 AM
Quote from: som99;569041
What now, wait just a minute, you won a Mini for 130$ but now you are bidding on anotherone?
Just so you know, neither wifi or bluetooth works under MorphOS, so why are you bidding on one more machine when you just boght one?


Who said anything about bidding?  

I said that I have a lead on another Mac Mini, which I DO plan to use wifi and bluetooth with on the Mac side.  This has more goodies with it for even less and includes wifi/bluetooth so how can I say no.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: som99 on July 05, 2010, 07:26:08 AM
Quote from: Sandman;569049
Who said anything about bidding?  

I said that I have a lead on another Mac Mini, which I DO plan to use wifi and bluetooth with on the Mac side.  This has more goodies with it for even less and includes wifi/bluetooth so how can I say no.


My bad I assosiated lead with leading bid :p im an ebay junkie :p
So what is your plans with your current Mac Mini, one for OSX and one for MorphOS?
If you want something more to do with em I can recomend you to try a PPC version of Ubuntu :)
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 09, 2010, 10:02:40 PM
Quote from: Piru;568902
(http://image.bayimg.com/nanknaach.jpg)

LOOOL! I got Only a three-day ban, was not this a little too soon? I still have 480 pints of beer to drink up.:lol:
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: tone007 on July 09, 2010, 10:54:20 PM
Quote from: halvliter'n;569699
LOOOL! I got Only a three-day ban, was not this a little too soon? I still have 480 pints of beer to drink up.:lol:


..but first, tell us how you really feel about using Apple computers as Amigas!
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 09, 2010, 11:06:37 PM
Quote from: tone007;569704
..but first, tell us how you really feel about using Apple computers as Amigas!

You ask me? I have never used an Apple computer as an Amiga computer. I will never do it, Mac and Amiga are two completely different computers on the same line as the new Mac and WinPCes are different. Amiga computer is an alternative to all the other computers. And it's not OSet that makes a computer alone.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: tone007 on July 09, 2010, 11:13:30 PM
How about an AmigaOne, does that count?
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 09, 2010, 11:17:28 PM
Quote from: tone007;569708
How about an AmigaOne, does that count?
Of  course, even if it is not exactly what I wanted.
Well here comes OSet into the picture.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: tone007 on July 09, 2010, 11:20:11 PM
Pegasos? Efika? SAM?
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 09, 2010, 11:30:24 PM
Quote from: tone007;569710
Pegasos? Efika? SAM?

This was  hell to rush, I do not want any of them. Maybe  Pegasos2G4.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: som99 on July 09, 2010, 11:31:07 PM
Quote from: halvliter'n;569711
This was  hell to rush, I do not want any of them.


What on earth do you want then?
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: tone007 on July 09, 2010, 11:31:53 PM
Quote from: halvliter'n;569711
This was  hell to rush, I do not want any of them. Maybe  Pegaso2G4.

But would you say any of them count as Amiga, keeping in mind the SAM and the Pegasos run OS4?
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 09, 2010, 11:44:14 PM
Quote from: tone007;569713
But would you say any of them count as Amiga, keeping in mind the SAM and the Pegasos run OS4?

It is  not a typical Apple or anything else, I have counted again PPC was the  next step after 68000 CPU, and I do not care of people who try to  squeeze. Of course, x86 is an option, but how  boring is that? But anyway, I have other things to  do with my time now. There are many  options.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: tone007 on July 09, 2010, 11:53:46 PM
Thank you for the input.  My analysis remains incomplete.

(http://jungle.net/tone/chart.jpg)

Please complete the chart at your convenience.

Thank you for participating in this survey!
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: Sandman on July 10, 2010, 01:14:11 AM
Quote from: tone007;569717
Thank you for the input.  My analysis remains incomplete.

(http://jungle.net/tone/chart.jpg)

Please complete the chart at your convenience.

Thank you for participating in this survey!


Quote from: halvliter'n;569707
You ask me? I have never used an Apple computer as an Amiga computer. I will never do it, Mac and Amiga are two completely different computers on the same line as the new Mac and WinPCes are different. Amiga computer is an alternative to all the other computers. And it's not OSet that makes a computer alone.


Ahhh... But WinUAE+Amikit+OS3.9 IS an Amiga.... ok I see.

Amiga rules!     In 1990 maybe :)
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: halvliter'n on July 10, 2010, 01:45:38 AM
Quote from: Sandman;569733
Ahhh... But WinUAE+Amikit+OS3.9 IS an Amiga.... ok I see.
You see wrong.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: Iggy on July 10, 2010, 03:43:44 AM
Quote from: halvliter'n;569735
You see wrong.

Yeah!
Who ya gonna believe him or your lying eyes?

Old 68K Amiga are O.K.
Anything that runs AOS 4 is O.K.
But MorphOS hardware is NOT O.K.
Huh?

No, don't ban him. I use MorphOS regularly, but halviter'n is good comedy relief.

Hey dude is a Natami an Amiga? What about the overpriced X1000? And, if an X86 running emulation software is (and its a lot cheaper), why don't we forget the new hardware and software and just run that?
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: LoadWB on July 10, 2010, 04:45:37 AM
Quote from: halvliter'n;568873
Yes I know this forum is for allaroundjunkies, and I do not care if I get banned. I have much more to choose from. And of course old Amiga Rules!!!


Then why not just go away.  I have not read a single thread yet in which your posts are not in some manner inflammatory, rude, or otherwise obnoxious and useless.  Frankly, people like you cause more damage to a community than do good.  Thankfully, you all come and go: in with a bang and out with a whimper.
Title: Re: Woo-Hoo Got a Mac Mini today!
Post by: DavidF215 on July 10, 2010, 04:45:58 AM
Good price, indeed. I bought a used Mini, too, last week. So far so good. OS X is good, but takes some getting familiar with. I'm going to try out XCode in the next day or two as I'm wondering if it's as simple as the Apple website makes it out to be.