Mac Mini here tomarrow!

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Kayle12

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I will!

My Specs were as follows!

Mac Mini 1.42GHZ Model

512 MB Ram

SuperDrive (CD,CDR,CDRW,DVD,DVD-R,DVD+R,DVD-RW,DVD+RW)

80GB HD

Ethernet, Modem, Sound the already build in's!

It totaled out to be $763.00 with fast shipping!!

I am really excited. I really wanted to get internal Bluetooth, and the Bluetooth keyboard/mouse, but at the time it was 200. Know it's only 150.

I will let you know about my experience.

Do you think that It will be very fast????

Kayle

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Do you think that It will be very fast????
for me its not. ive been pc user for ages. my last workstation was/is p4 2.26ghz 1gb ram intel reference board... but thats just a total personal feelin! ive got the 1.4ghz mini with 512mb. for example iphoto doesnt respond so fast, maybe I imported to many files. I just tried watchin hd quicktime trailer. a bit choppy too. I guess im just not used to see apps laggin a bit.

but dont get me wrong. I love this quiet beauty under my desk. perhaps ill switch later to a powermac :laugh:

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Do you think that It will be very fast????
for me its not. ive been pc user for ages. my last workstation was/is p4 2.26ghz 1gb ram intel reference board... but thats just a total personal feelin! ive got the 1.4ghz mini with 512mb. for example iphoto doesnt respond so fast, maybe I imported to many files. I just tried watchin hd quicktime trailer. a bit choppy too. I guess im just not used to see apps laggin a bit.

but dont get me wrong. I love this quiet beauty under my desk. perhaps ill switch later to a powermac :laugh:

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you'll see a huge difference between the mac mini and a powermac :)

i thought my mac mini was about as fast as my p4 2.6

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I've been a Mac user for a while and I bought the mini in January. I have only two problems with it. One is the speed of the HD, it really makes the system seem slower than it should. This really shows on Spotlight searches (it is still very fast but compared to an iMac or a PowerMac you can tell the difference) and in iPhoto when browsing lots of pictures. The other problem I have with it is the video card, it doesn't handle high res monitors very well and doesn't support Quartz 2D Extreme. I don't really care about the ripple effect in Dashboard buut when Apple chooses to enable it Quartz 2D Extreme will boost GUI performace a lot and it won't be availible on the Mini because of its gfx card.

With that said I love my mini, it is a great machine, I use it daily for everything. Just remember it isn't going to be the fastest machine out there.

Make sure you check macupdate and versiontracker.com for any software you might need and dashboardwidgets.com for extra widgets.

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Kayle12

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Wow! I can't even imagine how I ever used a PC before. It's really fast, except startup! I am really impressed. I tried the Nanosuar2 game, and it skipps every once in a while, but I don't usually play many games anyway.

I'm just amazed at the GUI interface, the animations, ect.

I have a cupple of questions tho.

1.) Is there a way to enable sounds, to where when you minimize, move, or do other things in OS, it will make little sounds?

2.) What about like Spider Solitare? I love hat game in Windows, is there a good one in the MAC OS.

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Wow! I can't even imagine how I ever used a PC before. It's really fast, except startup! I am really impressed. I tried the Nanosuar2 game, and it skipps every once in a while, but I don't usually play many games anyway.

I'm just amazed at the GUI interface, the animations, ect.

I have a cupple of questions tho.

1.) Is there a way to enable sounds, to where when you minimize, move, or do other things in OS, it will make little sounds?

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1. Xsounds will do that. http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/xounds

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Rudy

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Wow! I can't even imagine how I ever used a PC before. It's really fast, except startup! I am really impressed. I tried the Nanosuar2 game, and it skipps every once in a while, but I don't usually play many games anyway.

I'm just amazed at the GUI interface, the animations, ect.

I have a cupple of questions tho.

1.) Is there a way to enable sounds, to where when you minimize, move, or do other things in OS, it will make little sounds?

2.) What about like Spider Solitare? I love hat game in Windows, is there a good one in the MAC OS.

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the slow startup is because of the slow HD in the mac mini, its pretty fast on my powermac :)

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to most people 45 sec is quite slow

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Well, when you consider that you don't have to reboot the Mac but maybe once a month (when a new system update comes out that requires it), what's the big deal about boot times? They are essentially meaningless.

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I think I will start to do that!

What about the life span, do it really do anything??

I guess, I'm on an asking question mode!!

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I dont think the life span would be threatened.

I remember a thread on here about whether to leave the computer on 24/7 or not

a lot said yes

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