MOTM

On Jan 12, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Adam Schabtach wrote:

>> Executive summary: have the money, get a PowerBook, want portable for
>> less get the iBook. Nothing against the Mac mini, but as it's only
>> got a G4 I'd go with the iBook or the PowerBook (if you have the
>> money). Once Apple starts making G5 PowerBooks, though, the equation
>> changes as the extra power of the G5 over the G4 will make a big
>> difference.
>
> There's some information on today's Macintouch (www.macintouch.com)
> comparing what it would cost to buy a complete Mac mini system 
> (monitor,
> keyboard, etc.) vs. buying an iMac. Of course anybody with older 
> hardware
> that they can press into service would have to do their own 
> calculations,
> but the Mac mini isn't quite as cheap as it first seems, it appears.
>
> Another drawback with respect to using it for music is that it has a 
> 2.5"
> hard drive, which is not likely to have the throughput of a larger 3.5"
> drive. It also apparently has a slower system bus speed than other Mac
> models.
>
> But in any case it will be interesting to see how it fares in 
> real-world
> performance situations, once people get their hands on them. 
> Personally I
> think the best uses for the thing would be as a headless server for 
> media
> and other stuff (like my CVS repository), and as part of a CPU farm for
> taking advantage of Cubase's and Logic's ability to use several 
> machines at
> once.
>
> --Adam

The way I look at it, the macmini is a sign of things to come.  Feature 
to feature, it's a better deal than a cheepo PC.  It's got a G4, not a 
celeron, and firewire.  In a couple years this will have a G5 with 
gigabit ethernet.  Then we can stack them on a shelf for our 
distributed processing system.

woot!

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