Hey guys so I am permanently on my laptop here this Toshiba Satellite M30 I am using its LCD but I have got a spare 17" Samsung LCD so should I buy a Dell 2005FPW for my laptop instead of using its inbuilt 15" screen or buy a Mac Mini and use the spare 17" LCD for it? I am really confused ere.

edit: reason why I dont use the 17" with my laptp is because the 15" laptop LCD is widescreen and I love it but I could make use of it with the Mac Mini so I wont be wasting a LCD but then also what would I use a Mac mini for if I have this laptop already? Would I make use of the Mac? So thats why maybe I should get that Dell for this laptop....

Thanks anyway!

well the screen would be great but you're using a laptop so there's not much point in getting another screen unless you're gonna watch movies lots and play games. the mac mini would be good to learn mac os x and if you end up not using it you could make it into a media centre pc like what i intend to do to mine. hook it up to the hdtv, get a wireless keyboard and mouse, 200gb hdd and a 5.1 external sound card... hmm maybe not...

Thanks for your reply man, in this thread and my other mac mini thread, the Media Center PC sounds like a good idea after I have finished all my learning and playing with OSX

The screen would bring you more joy

Ps and send that 17" here

You think? I would have thought the Mac would bring more overall joy eg. Mac OSX But the screen would also bring me alot of joy i guess I really dont know...

Yea I sent it, should receieve it withing 3 to 8 working days

Ok at this moment it looks as if I am going to purchase one Mac Mini that is.

I voted for the 2005fpw, but i changed my mind.

go for the mac. since, you already have an lcd.

Yea looks like I will be getting a mac!

Do not get a mac mini, they lag SO bad when you open the most simple programs, i was testing them at the mac store, and i almost thought i was on a PC

To be fair most of the Apple's in the Apple store are full of crap and have been played with a lot by Windows users and kids so they think clicking the red X makes the App go away. It doesn't it just sits in the background eating RAM.

Actually, it was right from the box, it was one of the first days they where released.

Hmm, odd. My iBook G4 12" is the same spec and it quite responsive. Maybe you played with a duff one.

A couple of my friends won some from freeminimac.com or whatever, and theres all lag too.

What do you expect? It's not a G5 with loads of RAM (baaahhh - lol) ahem. It's a tiny computer based on laptop parts.

Sorry:(

This lagging true? People that have this please tell me.

It's true trust me.

Yea fair enought thanks for the heads up as much as I dont want to believe it I sorta do I am going to a mac center though I just want to use Mac OSX there then

id take a mac mini any day.

The Mac mini is a slow pos.

HOLY ****... I have to say I agree with ANova

i was debating between the two for myself and in the end i ended up choosing the mac mini. my ex girlfriend had one and im on it right now. its only got 256mb ram and sometimes the twirly **** comes up and you have to wait a few secs for something to open but its hardly an eternity nor more than a few seconds. the one im getting has a gig ram and the 1.4ghz processor but you will get more fun out of the mac. then by the time you can afford the lcd again you will have mastered your mini.

but all that said

i still want the dell monitor

and im getttin the mac

ARGH

The Mac Mini is a POS unless you add more ram to it, 256mb is not enough. Having said that, I'd recommend getting the RAM from a thrid party, don't buy RAM from Apple, cause they're way over priced. Get the Mac mini.

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Saying a 1.42 G4 is slow is weird. Maybe you guys 'played' with the wrong mini's but the macs ive used are all pretty responsive. OS X feeds off ram so 512mb should do it proper.

The 1.42 GHz PowerPC processor is pretty slow by todays standards and OSX is a memory hog, 512 MB isn't even really enough let alone 256.

hmm i'm on a 1.25 with 512mb ram. its fine for normal usage thats if you don't leave the programs running in the background. remember to cmd+Q any programs to exit it instead of clicking the red button on the top left cause that only closes the window and leaves the program running. example: in iTunes you click the close button but the song still plays.

Oh gosh! It is I went to an Apple center today and it was not really what I expected I was so happy and I saw it on display just sitting there running Mac OSX looks awesome everything was looking mad I had a huge smile on my face then I put my hand on the mouse and started moving it then I click on one of the menus up the top to drop it down and it lagged !!!! The menus even lag I couldnt beleive it, it was acting so un responsivly and lagily that I cant believe they are allowed to sell something like that, lucky i test before I bought one but I am sad now because i really wanted this and all the other Macs are too expensive I used a 20" iMac that was there for a while but then it crashed when I opened garageband so I held down that wierd power button on the back and turned it off then on it has an awesome light on the front of it too like just white the things looks soo cool when it was back and running it seemed very fast too bad this is way out of my price league

^^ why didnt you rebioot the mini????

Didnt know how

edit: I am going to go again today, because maybe I was dumb yesterday like one of those days where your brain is dumb and juicy, so I am going to retest this and reboot the mini this time.

Oh wow I take it all back, I went back there to that Apple center and was very very angry to see that all these people were crowed around the mini I went grabed a drink came back and they had all moved on to a PowerMac G5 i ignored that one I went down to the Mini and rebooted that it (I figured out wow have to press the Apple button then restart ) Anyway I did it and then it came up, very, very fast boot by the way then when it was loaded I saw that the only program open was some wierd one with a two faces symbol Finder it think they call it? Which is good as before all the applications in the bottom had a little arrow under them meaning they were all open? Anyway so now only this one was open and I had a play with the menus it was very quick and responsive I opened iTunes it did this quickly too and then I played around with the HDD icon like clicking on it etc. It is actaully really quite fast i was impressed, I am going to get one tommorow

I would say niether but thats not an option.... naturally, I am a mac hater... its in my blood or something man... I just find them to become, how would you put it? UNSTABLE?, UNRELIABLE?...? after a short amount of time. so go the dell my friend

i'm not trying to be rude or anything but do you have first hand experience with macs? i've had plenty ($3million mac computer lab, super computing with powermacs, video editing with g4 cubes, macs in every classroom, my personal mac mini) and to date i've encountered enough errors to count with my fingers (ok maybe slightly more but my mac mini has had none so far for a few months). whereas my pcs have been bugged with spyware and many errors that want to make you pull your hair out over the past 6 years. so i find it hard to believe macs are more unstable or unreliable than pcs. if you're talking about hardware its equally unreliable. but if you're talking about software there's not much of a chance

ps: the ram in your sig can't be used with your motherboard or any AMD motherboard

lol he is right

man... why do people say they have things they don;t on the internet.... wheter it's cars, girls or computer specs

Guys, guys leave the guy alone, we all lie a little on the internet maybe... Even if its something small please dont get sidetracked, this threads sposed to be about me getting a mini or not however my mind is 95% made up that I am buying one tommorow as I quite enjoyed using it


Thanks for all the replies guys, you all kick ass !