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

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Mac Mini, a mini mac for $499

[tunepoet]

Man, THAT is a cool idea! I wish I had a need for one of those. Mr. Jobs may be a problem child, but he comes up with some really great ideas. Lots of intended Windows upgrades just made the Mac switch. Now if Apple would just design an OS with an interface that moved as quick as OS9, or a Windows computer, game over.

Blessings,
Damon

[Francois Déchery]

This Mac Mini is a killer product for most people starting with mac, as well as for mac users wishing to update thier older second mac.

Cheers Apple !!!!!!!

[ourmanflinty]

aww it's so cute and it's tiny tiny tiny! iddy biddy lickle fing ah!

[Francois Déchery]

It shoud also be the quiestest destkop mac ever done (expect may be the cube). Lepetitmartien, who had a chance to see one in real life, was told that Mac Mini noise is under 22db.

[swilder]

So to recap:

1. Cheap Cheap Cheap

2. iLife '05

3. Virus worries are a thing of the past

Are there any reasons not to make the switch?

[rounik]

Does the mac mini come with iLife too?!?!

sounds like a bargain!

But, in terms of music could i use it as a node for extra power with Logic pro 7?

take it easy,

rounik

[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.

[mhohman]

Any idea what kind of hard drive this thing has in it? 4200rpm laptop drive or 7200rpm desktop drive?

[ourmanflinty]

it's a laptop drive unless dr who designed the case...
the whole thing's not much bigger than a desktop drive and there's a combo drive and memory simm and all the sockets to cater for.