My Ideal Mactel Mini

[OCOTILLO]

My ideal Mactel mini is as follows:
1. Pentium M 2Ghz processor
2. 1 Gb Memory
3. 128 MB Video card
4. 8x dual layer superdrive
5. High rpm 80 Gig Hard Drive
Software: All current Mac mini software plus a version of Virtual Windows that would permit switchers to use most of their Windows software. What do you think?

[ITASOR]

I'm not seeing 1GB RAM standard or even the option for a 128MB card, sorry.

Pentium M....not likely either I don't think.

Your combination would be very nice though. I still like PPC. Heh.

[Josh396]

My ideal Mactel mini is as follows:
1. Pentium M 2Ghz processor
2. 1 Gb Memory
3. 128 MB Video card
4. 8x dual layer superdrive
5. High rpm 80 Gig Hard Drive
Software: All current Mac mini software plus a version of Virtual Windows that would permit switchers to use most of their Windows software. What do you think?
Well that would be nice but I don't see a chance of that happening at all.

[brendel95]

My ideal Mactel mini is as follows:
1. Pentium M 2Ghz processor
2. 1 Gb Memory
3. 128 MB Video card
4. 8x dual layer superdrive
5. High rpm 80 Gig Hard Drive
Software: All current Mac mini software plus a version of Virtual Windows that would permit switchers to use most of their Windows software. What do you think?

Powerbook can have these spec maybe

[reberto]

I could see a 128 meg card on the very top line mini. Maybe a option?

[Verto]

My ideal Mactel mini is as follows:
1. Pentium M 2Ghz processor
2. 1 Gb Memory
3. 128 MB Video card
4. 8x dual layer superdrive
5. High rpm 80 Gig Hard Drive
Software: All current Mac mini software plus a version of Virtual Windows that would permit switchers to use most of their Windows software. What do you think?

The Mini really deserves a lot of upgrades, and this is a pretty good list, mostly. Hard drive should be, minimum, 60GB standard. Memory needs to be upped as well. Bluetooth/Airport should both be standard options across the board.

[chucknorris]

The Mini really deserves a lot of upgrades, and this is a pretty good list, mostly. Hard drive should be, minimum, 60GB standard. Memory needs to be upped as well. Bluetooth/Airport should both be standard options across the board.

It does deserve some upgrades, many of which have been delivered--sort of. Once the random upgrade becomes standard the Mac Mini will only be sorely lacking in the GPU department.

I suspect Apple will bridge the gap further between Mini and iMac following the exit of the eMac. Could be something like a high-end Mini or something new or perhaps nothing at all.

[GFLPraxis]

I just want Apple to Apple-ize WINE and integrate it with Mac OS X 10.5 so the ability to run Windows apps is built in to every intel Mac.

Then hardcore gamers can pay $5 for Cedega, a gaming-specific version with support for hundreds of major commercial games including new releases like Battlefield 2 and WoW.

[screensaver400]

I just want Apple to Apple-ize WINE and integrate it with Mac OS X 10.5 so the ability to run Windows apps is built in to every intel Mac.

Then hardcore gamers can pay $5 for Cedega, a gaming-specific version with support for hundreds of major commercial games including new releases like Battlefield 2 and WoW.

NO!!! That would be bad, bad, bad! If that was out of the box, what developer would develop for Mac OS X when developing for Windows worked, too? And using WINE doesn't take advantage of the stuff that makes OS X great... Hardware acceleration on most everything, etc.

Remember OS/2 anyone?

[GFLPraxis]

NO!!! That would be bad, bad, bad! If that was out of the box, what developer would develop for Mac OS X when developing for Windows worked, too? And using WINE doesn't take advantage of the stuff that makes OS X great... Hardware acceleration on most everything, etc.

Remember OS/2 anyone?

Okay, good good point. Then I want a third party to package up WINE to make it user friendly, and Apple deny any support for that third party to prevent developers from doing what you said, so a user has to go hunt it down and find it if they want to run Windows apps.

[Abstract]

My ideal Mactel mini is as follows:
1. Pentium M 2Ghz processor
2. 1 Gb Memory
3. 128 MB Video card
4. 8x dual layer superdrive
5. High rpm 80 Gig Hard Drive
Software: All current Mac mini software plus a version of Virtual Windows that would permit switchers to use most of their Windows software. What do you think?

I'm not sure what the point of all these threads are, or why they are posted.

However, to comment on what you said, 1 GB of RAM standard on a Mini will not happen for a long time.

[muffinman]

im sorry, i dont really know much... :o and i just wanted to know what mactel was.. thanks

[chucknorris]

im sorry, i dont really know much... :o and i just wanted to know what mactel was.. thanks

"Mactel" is a contraction of "Mac" and "Intel." Windows computers are often referred to as Wintel, so this is kind of a takeoff on that.

[GFLPraxis]

im sorry, i dont really know much... :o and i just wanted to know what mactel was.. thanks


Next year Apple is switching to Intel processors, and Macs will have Intel processors in them. Therefore, we refer to the Macs with Intel processors as "Mactels".