How time flies...
How time flies on by... I've had my Mini now for about two months now, and boy do I like it. I am ofcourse a bit disappointed that the new Mini came out so soon afterwards, but that is water under the bridge. Still, from what I've read I've come to the conclusion that the G4 Mini was a more priceworthy product than the Intel based. Sure, the new one offers two DDR2/667 DIMM places and dual core. However, the step away from a onboard graphics controller with it's own memory was a step in the wrong direction. I mean, ship a product with only 512 mb of ram, and have an integrated gpu which uses internal memory is just wrong.
Anyway, the new Mini has something I'd really like to have though. The remote and frontdesk. It is a step towards the media centre of my choice. No knobs, no volume buttons, just a screen, a Mac mini and a remote to control it's functions is what I'd like to have. One thing missing though is the part where I can connect my current speakers to the Mini addon, insert my digital-tv reciever access keycard so that I may watch channels that are fee-bases too. Maybe 1:st of April will have something good and cool from Apple?
If you are considering to purchase a Mini, don't hesitate. I've been and still is very pleased with my Mini. It takes up just about no deskspace, is quiet, looks stylish and will offer you plenty of computing happiness over any Windows-based PC out there.
Today I use the net mostly for email, online-shopping, web-browsing, Skype, chatting and information hunting. And let's face it, there is absolutely no need for a deskspace eathing 3GHz+ PC with loads of memory to do that task (yes yes, I do have an AMD64 3000+). Besides, PC's are ugly ;) and if you would like to use the new Microsoft operating system Vista on it when that is launched, it may not work as the hardware haven't perhaps been "validated" with Microsoft. Oh, and Vista will need a real powerhorse of a computer to run smoothly.
If you are thinking about gaming, then I suggest you look at a console, I own a PS2, and gaming on a console is much more fun than on a PC. Why? Because you don't have to upgrade the console as frequent as a PC if you want to be able to play a recently released new game. I tried the Battle for Middle-earth 2 demo the other day, and boy does it ever zap resources on my PC, even though it is an AMD64 3000+, 1GB ram, SATA and Xforce Nvidia6600GT 128MB. While the (dare I say modest) PS2 have exquisit titles like God of War (recently released as Platinum), the Ratchet and Clank series of games (though the latest Gladiator was a bit of a disapointment). Best of all with a console, you just start it up, insert the disc, wait while for the game to load, and hey presto you're up and gaming :)
There is of course games for the Mac as well, if you buy a more powerful Mac, then there is World of Warcraft and others. I myself play Starcraft on my Mini without any problems whatsoever, and Starcraft is the ultimate resource RTS out there anyhow :)
Enough of games, all in all, I really like my Mini, and start to get more and more annoyed with PC's, just because they are ugly, noisy and eat up a lot of deskspace.
Anyway, the new Mini has something I'd really like to have though. The remote and frontdesk. It is a step towards the media centre of my choice. No knobs, no volume buttons, just a screen, a Mac mini and a remote to control it's functions is what I'd like to have. One thing missing though is the part where I can connect my current speakers to the Mini addon, insert my digital-tv reciever access keycard so that I may watch channels that are fee-bases too. Maybe 1:st of April will have something good and cool from Apple?
If you are considering to purchase a Mini, don't hesitate. I've been and still is very pleased with my Mini. It takes up just about no deskspace, is quiet, looks stylish and will offer you plenty of computing happiness over any Windows-based PC out there.
Today I use the net mostly for email, online-shopping, web-browsing, Skype, chatting and information hunting. And let's face it, there is absolutely no need for a deskspace eathing 3GHz+ PC with loads of memory to do that task (yes yes, I do have an AMD64 3000+). Besides, PC's are ugly ;) and if you would like to use the new Microsoft operating system Vista on it when that is launched, it may not work as the hardware haven't perhaps been "validated" with Microsoft. Oh, and Vista will need a real powerhorse of a computer to run smoothly.
If you are thinking about gaming, then I suggest you look at a console, I own a PS2, and gaming on a console is much more fun than on a PC. Why? Because you don't have to upgrade the console as frequent as a PC if you want to be able to play a recently released new game. I tried the Battle for Middle-earth 2 demo the other day, and boy does it ever zap resources on my PC, even though it is an AMD64 3000+, 1GB ram, SATA and Xforce Nvidia6600GT 128MB. While the (dare I say modest) PS2 have exquisit titles like God of War (recently released as Platinum), the Ratchet and Clank series of games (though the latest Gladiator was a bit of a disapointment). Best of all with a console, you just start it up, insert the disc, wait while for the game to load, and hey presto you're up and gaming :)
There is of course games for the Mac as well, if you buy a more powerful Mac, then there is World of Warcraft and others. I myself play Starcraft on my Mini without any problems whatsoever, and Starcraft is the ultimate resource RTS out there anyhow :)
Enough of games, all in all, I really like my Mini, and start to get more and more annoyed with PC's, just because they are ugly, noisy and eat up a lot of deskspace.
posted by StefanH at 9:39 PM
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