Thinking of buying a Mac Mini for Morph OS - Questions

[Piru]

For some odd reason I started actually looking indepth at the morph os site and others. I was amazed to read that I can run 68k software on it without UAE so long as it doesn't bang the Amiga hardware, am I taking this in right?

Yes.

1. Is there much of a difference in actual performace between the 1.25GHz andf 1.5GHz models when actually using Morph OS?

CPU performance difference is 20%. Any CPU bound task is 20% faster on the 1.5GHz model.

What however is also significant is that the real "silent upgrade" 1.5GHz model has 64MB video memory (rather than the 32MB available in the other models). The 64MB video memory allows some more eye candy for instance.

2. What amount of RAM is recommended for it?

I'd say 512MB keeps you covered for anything I can think of, but 256MB will do for most tasks as well.

3. What Keyboard and mouse do I use? Is this just a standard USB 2 button mouse and standard keyboard or do I need to use the Mac items?

You can use normal USB 2 mice and keyboards, as well as Apple items. Normal two button mouse is recommended though as MorphOS is much easier to handle with it.

4. Is there Joystick support for classic games? Again, what kinds are supported?

Hmm I'm no expert in this area, I guess someone else can reply this one.
My understanding is however, that you should be able to use USB joystick with E-UAE.

5. How good are the web browsers?

OWB is really good.

Do they have Flash support for things like youtube?

Yes there's a flash plugin for OWB. Youtube's flash is a bit heavy, so as fast system as possible is recommended for it. Luckily OWB also supports html5 which you can enable for youtube (see: http://www.youtube.com/html5/ )

Here's a nice video showing OWB 1.8 & html5 youtube in action (running on Mac Mini G4 1.25GHz):
[youtube]IfARQsDQjWI[/youtube]

6. What screen modes does it support and what are recommended resolutions?

Anything you can monitor can support, up to 1920 x 1200. Note that with 32MB video memory systems you won't be able to use all the eye candy in this resolution.

[Piru]

1. Can I use an old CRT monitor on the mini to save having to but a flat screen at first?

CRTs work just fine, but very old ones (pre EDID) require manual configuration by using the System Settings / Monitors (much like old ModeEdit in CGX).

2. Is there any point in getting one of the later models with wireless built in? Does Morph os support wireless and if not, will it?

Wireless or bluetooth aren't supported by MorphOS and there are currently no plans to support them. Obviously if you set up a dual or triple booting (Mac OS X, Linux?) then the wireless and bluetooth might come handy.

[Piru]

My only resentment thus far is that my high quality videos and Youtube ALL play in slow motion

Are you using youtube html5 mode to play them? html5 video playback is a lot faster than flash.

[Piru]

My eMac came with 256MiB of ram, last night I upgraded it to 1.5GiB of ram and I can't tell the difference.

Yeah, the difference would only appear if you'd run out of memory. That's not totally unheard of, at least if you like to use Ram Disk a lot. It clearly depends on the stuff you do.

[Piru]

I do not see it as trolling, but anyway..

Even that could be considered as breach of AUP ("Members will not publicly question a moderator's decision.").

[Piru]

..., Piru, can't you just ban this clown?

I'm not a moderator, so no.


And before someone asks: No I'm not interested.

[Piru]

MorphOS should been ported to something else. AppleMac is bad in my Amigaworld.

Thank you for this priceless piece of information. Could you please start your own thread about it? You're not answering any of the questions.

[Piru]

The answer to all questions, 1-6: It's just a bunch of junk.

You didn't answer the questions I'm afraid.

Couple of free advices: Don't post while under influence. Chill. Try to understand that a warning has been given, and further misconduct might lead to a ban. Keep in mind that everyone is allowed to have an opinion and voice it, as long as they keep civil and follow the common forum rules. This thread was posted to "Discussion of the available hardware for MorphOS" section, officially dedicated to all hardware solutions available to run MorphOS. This includes some Apple products. Deal with it. If you can't deal with it, don't read the MorphOS threads, or just leave amiga.org completely.

[Piru]

Can you use the same keyfile on multiple macs, or is the license per machine?

License is per machine.