Mac Mini, a mini mac for $499, Apple Options

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Mac Mini, a mini mac for $499

[lepetitmartien]

Here I am (the guy who touched the thing -save the lucky ones in SF) at last!

Size : it's a little larger than a 5 crystal CD box stack. Down cute.
22dB is cool, imac G5 is 27 dB while sleeping
for switchers, linux guys, students/school/and higher, home, office, it's a killer. For basic use it's enough, as inside it's basically an ibook

Mind that Apple issue this cutie the day before the largest show on the educational market in the world which started today in London…

Anyway, we had the largest WAOOAH effect for this product in the Apple meeting in Paris (satellite on air transmission, drinks and little canapés for our hungry stomacs Second was Shuffle. the only trouble was we would all have love to go away with a mac mini or a shuffle We had to rinse our sadness and fill our empty bellies instead

The BAD THING:
in fact there are 2…

- End users are not supposed to go inside too much, it's rather packed inside AND it opens not by unscrewing but by moving clips (the kind in plastic that breaks), so deep diving is risky.
- 256 MB of RAM is KIDDING!
I tell you we'll have plenty of DDR 2700 256 MB RAM to buy 2nd hand before long. 256 IS A JOKE. 512 is a minimum not to be tampered by the virtual memory.

On the node question…

you need:

A distributed audio network requires at least two Apple computers running Mac OS X version 10.3 or later, with one acting as a master system (1GHz G4 or faster recommended) and additional computers serving as “nodes” (G5 recommended). Logic node software uses each networked computer as an additional processor for your Logic Pro 7 system. You may install Logic Node on an unlimited number of Macs. Gigabit Ethernet provides the best performance. If you use more than one node, the switch that manages them must be Gigabit to avoid data transfer bottlenecks.