can mac mini fun tiger smoothly?

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plenty enough. and it will fun it greatly too

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:rofl: You noticed it too :laugh:

Anyway, I would hope so. It's pretty much my only chance at getting a Mac, which I REALLY want, so if it didn't, I would be highly disappointed.

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corrent me if I am wrong, but isn't Tiger suppost to run faster then panther?

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so far, apple has done a great job getting new versions of os x to work even better on older equipment, and i'm sure tiger will be no different. i am sure the mac mini will be no slouch.

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Yea, my 12" PowerBook 1.33GHz with a GeForce FX 5200 Go runs it amazingly well. You won't get the really fancy effects of Core Image (because the Radeon 9200 doesn't support a few features Core Image needs) but you will get some of the nice OS X eyecandy.

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Elliott

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While we are on the tiger running smoothly subject i just have to ask this myself. A G3 700 with 386 ram will run tiger well right? and if I want to put more memory into my laptop, (ibook) will it be as easy as a pc?

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1. It'll run pretty well. Apple has a knack for making its software actually run better from release to release.

2. Putting memory in an iBook is pretty darn easy. Lift up the keyboard, take out the Airport Card, unscrew the protection plate, and the memory chip is right there. Arguably not as easy as taking the siding off of a PC (unless you have a horrible case), but very easy for a laptop.

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I'm pretty much lost here for OS version for Macs - what are the main differences between Tiger and what the MiniMac is preloaded with? :/  <---- noob.

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Mac mini comes with Panther (10.3) http://www.apple.com/macosx/

Tiger is 10.4 http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger

Have a look at the features. Basically, Tiger is everything in Panther, and then some...

You'll want Tiger, no question.

Elite_graphix - i think it has just one memory slot, which would contain the 256Mb stick. So you'd have to swap it out for an upgrade. I heard Apple might well support a 2Gb stick in there, soon. I believe it'd work, but Apple hasn't certified it for use in the machine yet.

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Okies, hopefully I'll have the money for one of these pretty soon, but I doubt that I would be able to restrain myself from pre-ordering one even tho I havent read anything apart from the blatantly biased stuff over at Apple.com.

Specifically Id be interested in noise made by the system as well as how well it actually performs in 'real life' and not just in an Apple lab.

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That little bitty box cant make too much noise at all. Id imagine its got a fan or 2 like the ones in the G5 iMacs. They've hit a point where the G4 chips just dont need nearly as much cooling as the used to. So one little fan and normal drive noise.

If you want any idea of how it would perform, I'd walk myself down to the nearest apple store and play around with it. But it'll be nice and fast for day-to-day work, you can count on that.

As for anyone else with the "will Tiger run on such and such" question, OSX scales very well. As long as you can handle less of the eye-candy, OS X is gonna run decentlyl on anything Apple recommends it will (anything post-beige G3).

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