MacMini

[fex]

24" iMac, OMFG, signs up for a credit card

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Edited April 28, 2011 by fex

[CVD]

Can anyone explain the Mac Mini upgrades? I'm tempted again...

[pedrocasilva]

Can anyone explain the Mac Mini upgrades? I'm tempted again...

Core Solo is no more. basically.

 

only dual core now.

[CVD]

Bought one last night on the Apple store, should be here on Wednesday.

 

w00t!

[Charlie]

Which version did you get?

 

One more thing...

 

Download Growl. It's the best notifier program ever. It will popup in the corner when yo uget a new email, or when someone signs onto MSN, or someone sends you a message and loads of other things.

[Nintendork]

Core Solo was a stupid move, I doubt it sold more than a few thousand units.

I got offered that Growl thing the other day but said no because it looked too much like a Windows XP install this then regret it jobby.

 

Seems a bit novel to go fiddling around with tbh.

[pedrocasilva]

Core Solo was a stupid move, I doubt it sold more than a few thousand units.

I got offered that Growl thing the other day but said no because it looked too much like a Windows XP install this then regret it jobby.

 

Seems a bit novel to go fiddling around with tbh.

not a stupid move if they had it for a significantly cheaper price, hell, I'd even prefer a macmini sold without CPU.

 

We can buy and drop in any intel portable cpu afterwards... core duo and core 2 duo. MacMini array of choices is... hmmm... limited, a 1,83 GHz core duo maximum is weak next to a core 2 duo at 2,33 GHz.

[Sarka]

Sorry to bump, but it's nicer than making a whole new thread! *gasp*

 

I have had my eyes on a MacBook for a good long time now - however, it will take forever to save up for one and my family have decided to get a 32" HDTV that can hook up to computers, so I thought it would be cool to get a MacMini and a wireless keyboard / mouse.

 

So, basically it's going to be used for:

 

A) Displaying pictures/videos for visitors to come and watch in the background.

B) Browsing the internet, YouTube will be as fancy as it gets I suspect.

C) Editing videos.

 

Now, I assume it will do A and B with no trouble at all, but it may streth it a touch for video editing. I'll be getting Final Cut Express, I just wanted to know if it'll have stuttery playback if I'm overlaying (or whatever it's called) videos, having 3 going at once?

 

I would like to get the cheapest one, if there's no problems with what I mentioned above. But, if there are - what do I get to improve it? More RAM? 1.83GHz?

 

All help is appreciated!

[Cubechris]

any Mac MSN version which supports handwriting would be nice.

[darksnowman]

Im looking at MacBooks and they seem pretty expensive... whats the advantage of getting one when nowadays I could get a decent laptop at a good sub £1000 price. Or am I just not looking in the right place...?

[pedrocasilva]

Im looking at MacBooks and they seem pretty expensive... whats the advantage of getting one when nowadays I could get a decent laptop at a good sub £1000 price. Or am I just not looking in the right place...?

You can get a entry level macbook for 750£ here, and they're decent CPU-wise and all (shame no core 2 duo version yet).

 

Currently I wouldn't consider neither a desktop PC nor a laptop that isn't Apple, but that's just me.

[Emasher]

get a mac mini

 

(any kind of mac is good)

 

or just replace your lap top with a mac book and for your windows stuff use "boot camp"

 

or just get a 30 gig ipod and put your music on that

 

or just get an external hard disk

 

or burn all your music to cd or dvd