Now that you've seen it: Are you gettin a Mac Mini


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I'll stick with my 20" iMac. ;)

And they didn't rip off the UK nearly as much as usual.

It's a nice idea, but only if you have a screen etc for it. If I were to get one, I'd be ?520 on top of the price listed with upgrades, and that's without buying a screen.

I dont get how they can achieve such high res displays with a naff old 32MB graphics display on a digital panel... anyone care to explain? Will using it at the highest res kill it off ?

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apple controls the hardware platform, and the software that runs on the hardware platform.

even though its only 32 megs, they're the ones writing the drivers, and everything for the hardware.

thus it works more efficently. (atleast in an ideal world)

i knew a year ago that they were going to do the whole mini thing.

wish i had bought stock. but it'll be a great little media-center box for me.

plus i devlop a little, so i'll be working with OpenDarwin on it.. (and of course, the best os in the world, Gentoo Linux ;))

with the whole ipod shuffle joke though, they're selling the "brand" and not the hardware.

i'd perfer to atleast have a monocrome ticker display, to know the song im playing and other junk. like hell :/

but whatever works.

I think they look quite sleek, im still asking questions about it, if they are sutable, and / or out perform windows boxs on watching DVD's, music, etc..

Cos if they do ill save up for this + a new monitor :)

dave164

I think the mac mini's market targets women (wannabes, those ones think they live in sex and the city) and school kids for their first computer, i think one thing apple just missed is the xmas, it will be very popular then

edit, sorry i meant it would be very popular then

Edited by hanxu

I was really eager to get one as this would be the perfect introductory Mac for me but I'm not so sure to be honest.

It will look ****e with my old CRT Monitor that I have at the moment but I plan to get a new slimline one fairly soon.

I've totted it up and my Mini Mac would come to ?457. Specs are as follows:-

1.25 GHz

80 Gig

512 MB

Optical Drive

Wired Mouse & Keyboard

Not too bad I don't suppose. All I'll use it for is surfing the web, using iTunes with my iPod Mini and reading my email. Not a lot so it's probably not a bad deal. If I get on with Mac OSX then i'll probably get a much, much better system in the future.

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