I have to say you'd be massively disappointed fi you bought one, as there are no BSOD's, no shitty, built-in to the shell browsers, and no generic and unexplainable times when the OS just hoses itself. Aside from that, I hear its a great little system, but if you do buy one, I'd recommend at least 512 megs of RAM, and not buying said RAM from Apple since they like to charge too much ala PC OEMS.
The Mac Mini is great. I dont know WTF smith is referring to. It's limited on upgrades, but the software is just the same as what's available on other macs. Waiting for Tiger wont do anything, since the hardware wont change at that time.
Canis wrote:The Mac Mini is great. I dont know WTF smith is referring to. It's limited on upgrades, but the software is just the same as what's available on other macs. Waiting for Tiger wont do anything, since the hardware wont change at that time.
Well, if the trend continues, Tiger will run better on existing hardware then previous versions did (so I hear from people who have used OS X since 10.0)
Of course the latest OS will manage current hardware more efficiently, but I meant in terms of support for newer hardware, which is what I thought you were referring to earlier on.
Well, there also some rumors of Apple boostig all the product lines whose graphics cards currently capable of Core Image, replacing them with ones that can.
10.4 will be released at WWDC, I'm pretty confident of that.
Build numbers have slowed down but I do know there's a big gap in build numbers between what the Premier ADC members are seeing and what the elite members are seeing. Can't say more there.
As for what it's like, it's noticeably faster on a dual G5. It also has a lot of features which are good for a developer like myself... GCC 4.0 with *auto vectorization* of code and a load of Obj-C work has been done. XCode 2.0 looks more like Project Builder, which is a relief.
FYI, auto vectorization is automatic Velocity (Altivec) codegen by the compiler. If you're still using a G3 system, sell it now as you will see a lot of requirements need a G4 as a minimum.
I thought vectorized code could run on a G3, only a shitload slower than a G4 or G5. FFS they only stopped selling G3-based comps a year or so ago, which they should keep in mind for a few more years at least.
My mom is considering buying a Mac. I'm not sure if I should convince her to get one of these or an iMac G5. The iMac would only be a couple hundred more after buying a decent monitor for the Mini....
It wont matter. The iMac G5 will give her a better processor and GPU, but with those two options it will be more of what appeals to her rather than performance.
No, from the docs of GCC 4, auto vectorized code need a GPU (Altivec/Velocity). It's not so say that GCC will do a good job at it *but* it's the first GCC that does it. FYI, .Net has such a feature.
Psyche911 wrote:My mom is considering buying a Mac. I'm not sure if I should convince her to get one of these or an iMac G5. The iMac would only be a couple hundred more after buying a decent monitor for the Mini....
