Dad switched to mac mini...

stevey500 · 06-28-05, 01:27 PM

Well, I talked my dad into getting a mac mini, cause he was tired of all the troubles with windows after I refused to fix the thing ever 2 days... and I am amazed in the little machine. I have the G4 Digital/Audio 800mhz 1gb ram Tower and his 512mb 1.42ghz mac mini outperforms mine very very well. I was quite surprised how well it ran unreal tournament at all high details 1024x760 very very smoothly without skipping a beat or overheating, the fans dont accelerate very often therefore the machine is just about completely silent, you have to put your ear up to it to hear anything. I was just surprised in how much performance you can get out of so little money, over at my school they have 3.2ghz dell XP towers with 512mb ram and with the built on video cards they have, they run unreal very terribly... Things they need to change in the mini: more usb ports!! more video ram for core video support... and maybe an optical audio output would be nice.

I am just about thinking i could sell my G4 tower and get a mini with the money because to get my powermac to match up with its speed will be over $300 in upgrades, video and CPU.
I know some may not me much of mac fans... I wasnt, till this year... and no im not against windows I would just rather use os/x...

06-28-05, 01:38 PM

My parents are thinking of getting one of these for the home computer because currently my laptop is more powerful than our current home pc thanks for posting :approve:

Howard2k · 06-28-05, 03:25 PM

I have an XP machine with a 2.4GHz prestcott HT processor, 768MB RAM. S-ATA etc.

My primary machine is my Mac Mini :) It's a pleasure to use.

stevey500 · 06-28-05, 07:26 PM

Heh, im glad to see other happy mac users out there!... I really love the os/x operating system ... it is simply incredible, a very easy, versitile, powerful, fast, stable Unix based operating system that just flys along smoothly with the mac mini... its just so crazy how much the mac mini can push... its sad seeing a tower 1/16 ( or something ) of the size of mine out preform it by at leas 2.5 - 3Xs ! ..

06-28-05, 08:24 PM

If the mini came with more ports I could use to connect to my home theater I would consider it as a stand-alone computer to use as my media computer to use in the living room.

Instead I am looking into a nice media extender for my Dell 9100.

Howard2k · 06-28-05, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by jpmarth

If the mini came with more ports I could use to connect to my home theater I would consider it as a stand-alone computer to use as my media computer to use in the living room.

Instead I am looking into a nice media extender for my Dell 9100.

Yeah I would like to see something like that too. There are ways that you can "fudge" it, but I suspect that with Mac Mini v2 it will be more friendly to that sort of usage.

06-29-05, 02:29 AM

Originally Posted by Howard2k

Yeah I would like to see something like that too. There are ways that you can "fudge" it, but I suspect that with Mac Mini v2 it will be more friendly to that sort of usage.

There are USB devices I could get that would provide the necessary video ports and then I could the headphone jack to convert to RCA for the audio. But, at a minimum $500 for the mini and then $100 for the USB device, that puts me over even the most expensive video extender which sits at $300.

It is a good little computer though. I am surprised Dell has not hit the micro pc market with more force to sell to the PC consumers who wants something like this.

06-29-05, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by jpmarth

There are USB devices I could get that would provide the necessary video ports and then I could the headphone jack to convert to RCA for the audio. But, at a minimum $500 for the mini and then $100 for the USB device, that puts me over even the most expensive video extender which sits at $300.

It is a good little computer though. I am surprised Dell has not hit the micro pc market with more force to sell to the PC consumers who wants something like this.

Tell Dell!!!!

johnsoax · 06-29-05, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by jpmarth

There are USB devices I could get that would provide the necessary video ports and then I could the headphone jack to convert to RCA for the audio. But, at a minimum $500 for the mini and then $100 for the USB device, that puts me over even the most expensive video extender which sits at $300.

It is a good little computer though. I am surprised Dell has not hit the micro pc market with more force to sell to the PC consumers who wants something like this.

Apple sells a $19 adapter to take the Video out to S-Video and Composite video out. I have one for my wife's iBook (screen burnt out, long story). Link Here