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Anyone have one of those Mac Mini's?
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I have one, but unfortunately, I haven't taken pictures of it... What do you want to know exactly? It's smaller than you think, even when you expect it to be small, BAM!
I have order the entry model, with the Superdrive upgrade (DVD burner if you will) which is compatible with both DVD-R and DVD+R. I call it my DVD-Ripping machine, since it can rip, compress and burn a DVD in less than an hour...
I have order the entry model, with the Superdrive upgrade (DVD burner if you will) which is compatible with both DVD-R and DVD+R. I call it my DVD-Ripping machine, since it can rip, compress and burn a DVD in less than an hour...
So you could take that thing around with you if you wanted with no problem? Damn thats sweet. Is it sufficently powerful to run all the new programs, OS's, and stuff, and maybe some games? I know power has hit a glass ceiling in most pc's and mac's but i see powermac G5 dual whatevers out there selling for $3000 ... and I just wonder, what is all that needed for?
This is a G4, not a G5. It's not 64 bit but it's powerfull enough to run everything. You could run games with it, if there were any interesting games for Mac OS X... It's light, you have a VGA Adapter, you need it's power cord with it's power supply... It's the perfect Mac to sneak on a PC desk, you plug the monitor, keyboard and mouse, and you're good to go!Hollywood said:
WordAssassin
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Laurent said:
Is the Superdrive JUST for burning DVDs? Does the standard Mac mini burn regular CDs, or do you need the Superdrive for that?
I'm like, this close to buying a Mac mini. *Holds up thumb and index fingers, almost touching*
I hear they're only worth getting if you upgrade to 512+ RAM, though. Apparently with anything less, even running JUST the OS chuggs. :lol
CosmicGroinPull
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Apple's designers should win awards...even the inside of the machines are display-worthy.
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WordAssassin said:
The Superdrive is called a Superdrive because its SUPER! It can do everything: Read CDs and DVDs as well as burn CDs and DVDs. MacMini comes standard with a Combo drive, meaning it reads DVDs, but doesn't write to them. It also reads and writes CDs. You can, however, upgrade to a Superdrive (but this particular model writes DVD±R at 4x) for $100 more.
While I wouldn't say OS X will CHUGG using 256mb of RAM, I would definitely say that 512 should be the minimum. Go buy a 1GB (DDR333) stick for around $90 and you'll be set
Cerebral Palsy
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I don't see why an iMac wouldn't run WoW fine. They're better spec'd than my dinosaur XP1800/Geforce3 Ti500 pc I'm running WoW on right now. Not that iMacs are exactly cheap either.
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Cerebral Palsy said:
The current iMacs would smoke World of Warcraft. They just upgraded the video cards.
WoW ran very well on my 1.5 Ghz Powerbook G4.
The iMac is currently speced at 1.8 or 2.0 Ghz G5 with 512MB ram standard and a Radeon 9600 with 128MB of it's own ram. It would output WoW like smooth smooth silk.
Like he said, the Superdrive does everything. I was assuming that a DVD drive could also burn CD, and that all that pep talk about how "teh Superdrive can do both!!!" was just PR, but apparently, you guys (PC) need 2 drives to do both job, other than paying the extra that a DVD±R / CD-R/RW burner cost...WordAssassin said:
I haven't upgraded my RAM. It's not the end of the world (the computer is still faster than my Power Mac G4 Cube, with 500MHz and 768Mb of RAM.
Hitokage said:Yeah, my not-too-expensive $70-at-the-time Pioneer DVR-108 can indeed read/write both DVDs and CDs great...
...but one thing it can't do in the least is rip CDDA worth a damn.
What drives are good for audio extraction these days? I used to recommend Lite-ON DVD-ROMs for that, but that was a while ago.. is there anything better?
Hitokage said:Yeah, my not-too-expensive $70-at-the-time Pioneer DVR-108 can indeed read/write both DVDs and CDs great...
...but one thing it can't do in the least is rip CDDA worth a damn.
AFAIK, this is the exact drive series Apple has been using all along for their Superdrives. The only difference is in the firmware.
My Dual G5 work machine has a PIONEER DVR-106D.
The Sony DDU-1621 I have as a second optical drive, fortunately, is excellent for CDDA ripping. It may not be the fastest, but it supports everything EAC wants in a ripper(I'm a data integrity uber alles guy). It also has digital audio out on the back which my pioneer doesn't, so it works out in that respect.Danj said:
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