"It rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbor's dog,
It's great for a snack, it fits in your pack, it's log, Log, LOG!"
Just damn.
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Wow. Throw in a bluetooth card for wireless keyboard and mouse, and that's one cool little machine.
Not being Apple wise, what kind of mouse and keyboard connectors does a Mac use?
Which will raise the price considerably.
FYI.
"It rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbor's dog,
It's great for a snack, it fits in your pack, it's log, Log, LOG!"
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
I've been wanting another Mac; this'll probably make me go get one (that, plus the fact that the kids have been hounding me for more than a year to get another computer to replace the old boat anchors I've saddled them with.
Price of a Dell Dimension 3000 Desktop w/2.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, and a 40 GB hard drive: $549. For an additional $169, it goes up to a 160 GB hard drive. No telling what eMachines will bring to the table.
Mac's simply outclassed performance wise.
As far as Apple products go, I believe if commodity priced hardware could run the software and the marketshare increased, viruses would be created and propagated.
BTW, my first computer was a Macintosh Plus. I loved it for all the right reasons. All of my employers since then have had Windows products. I've made my living writing client/server software for a long time and think Windows is just fine.
Mini Mac Ping! Apple announces new Macintosh computer...
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Most people who buy computers (99.99%) DON'T know squat about the inner workings and couldn't put together their kid's bike, much less a computer.
Almost all people do not build their own.
A Private View of the President
Towards the end are three or four pictures of Bush using his iPod, calling up a song, and riding a bike while listening to it. It would sure be interesting to see his play list.
With a little third party device, this little thing could be a kick butt music server
1.25GHz...
This is supposed to be impressive?
I can get a 3 Ghz PC with more features for under 600.
Oh, and Apple is opposed to free speech online; they are suing bloggers that talk about Apple.
I will not buy their product. They would want to shut FR down.
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzeff114110936jan11,0,3143210.story?coll=ny-business-headlines
- The lack of even ONE PCI slot is a bit of a handicap.
- Two USB 2.0's? Well...could be better.
- Only ONE firewire? Tsk. Bad.
- The Mac mini's home page says you could plug your guitar into it - does this mean there's audio in? The copy also says that the one visible audio connector is line-out. Which way IS it?
- PC2700 RAM: ouch - I can't add any of my current stuff. And the copy says 'service provider' installation only.
- How big (physical size) is the hard drive? Easily replaceable/swappable if I want to go bigger?
---- If the RAM is a 'service install' the drive probably is too.
- Can't install my second (warehouse) drive - gotta buy a firewire enclosure.
- Ditto with my DVD+-RW 8x (using my current one is cheaper than buying a super drive from Apple).
---- Great - traffic slowdowns on my firewire.
- Gotta hoard those USB ports and 'hub' things strangely if I want to use my video digitizers.
---- Again - traffic concerns.
Maybe I'll wait and see how the unit sells - I almost bought a cube, and look where THAT ended-up... It looks like a good 'crossover' system for someone who has a compromised/microsoft box but I can't see most current Apple users migrating to it easily.
Power users probably won't bite either - it seems like it's only a faster, smaller Cube.
You could've done better Jobs - good price, but handicapped upgradeability. Again.