Hey All,

My Mac Mini will be here tomarrow! I can't wait. Is there anything I should know, cool tips, downloads, reviews, ect!!

Thanks I can't wait

Kayle

10 year PC User
Trying a MAC

I'm sorry.

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TOMORROW.

And congrats on your new baby.

Thanks

I'm going to be ordering one in the near future as well, I'd be intersted in your opinions on the mini. I also like you am a long time (9 years) PC user and am slowly being enticed by the Mac mini.

congrats, just tell us about your first experience in the mac mini and what do you think of it

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

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

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

heh, I think ill work on my mini for a month then visit an apple store and try out powermac dual 2.0ghz for an hour. its gonna be interesting

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.

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.

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

congrats

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

The Mac mini should be faster than my iBook, and that only takes about 45 seconds from a cold boot.

to most people 45 sec is quite slow

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.

Cuz, fast boot times make your e-penis bigger. Seriously.

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Do you leave your Mac Mini on all the time!

I always turn mine off, when I'm done!!

Should I leave it on,

Will it use a lot of power?

Thanks

Kayle

just put it to sleep, thats what I do with my iMac...there is no need to shut it off, I have not restarted my Mac since I installed Tiger.

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!!

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

do you have applecare ?

i had my mini up 74 days before i did a restart .. installed all the latest security patches ... other than that there is no need to restart or shutdown

How much electricity would it use in sleep mode?

Is there a chance of it just bursting into flames or somthing?

There is always a chance it might burst into flames (a very, very small one,) but you do more damage to the hardware by turning the Mac on and off constantly.