It's good to see so many new people getting Macs these days (myself included). I think MacMini's sig is right...I can't see myself going back to a PC.
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Mac Mini 2010 - who is anxiously waiting?
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Yeah more and more people are going to Mac now. A Primary school in my town has gone from PCs to giving their students 1 to 1 Mac laptops and my highschool is going to bring in Macs this year
Though if they get too popular viruses will start getting made for Mac OSX
Why put a luxury SSD in a budget Mac mini? Most people are completely satisfied with the speed and larger storage of hard disk drives. SSDs would just increase prices unnecessarily. (BTO would be fine.)
Apple is trying to keep the price of the Mac Mini as low as they can/want. Adding an SSD as standard would increase the price exponentially. It would only make sense to make it a BTO option just like how you can BTO a 2.66GHz processor and a 500GB hard drive.
You're right, a SSD might be faster in a server where lots of files are being opened and saved.
SSDs do increase performance for certain tasks (opening/saving). I'm not yet convinced the performance gain is worth the cost. I guess it depends on the kinds of things you're doing most with your computer.
After a program and file are loaded into RAM, performance gains with an SSD are only seen if there are frequent and considerable modifications (save and re-save) to a large file you're working on. If the file is small, a hard disk will do just as well as a SSD.
For the kind of stuff I do, the cost of a SSD is not justified by the few seconds daily it saves opening and saving files and programs. There sure is a lot of hype surrounding them though.
My Mini, when I buy it, will be my first Mac.
I can't afford it until April, at the earliest. If something more powerful becomes available in the meantime, I'll happily snap it up... in Fantasy Land, if a Mini were released with an i5, a Radeon 4850/70, a 1TB drive and 8GB of RAM, I'd crap myself for it.
I have a spare pair of pants in place for this eventuality. But I really don't think it'll be called into action.
Apple really needs to build a super Mini if you will , we have many that have been screaming for this for years and years and with the advent of HDTVs it makes perfect sense. Im on the fence having returned a couple of yellow iMacs. Why Bother with iMac might as well get a HDTV and have it hooked up to a super Mini.
I don't know if the current Mac mini can be considered "super" but it's certainly more than capable of doing anything I can imagine connected to my HDTV.
I have two 2009 minis. The slower one is under my TV and the faster on is on my desk. The one on my desk replaced a 2008 Mac Pro to save space and money. I don't miss the Mac Pro at all.
I think you've answered your own question there, dude. Apple won't release a 'Super Mini' because they want us to buy iMacs.
I agree with you completely, from a personal point of view. Give me something powerful in the Mini form-factor (making allowances for physical factors, the obvious one being heat...), and I'll jump at it. Even if it were as expensive as an entry-level iMac, I'd go for it.
Not going to happen ....
Not this year.
Maybe, but if they are going to refresh the Mini by end-2010, it could use an i5 ....Apple will only give us a 2.66GHz "super mini."
that is the direction
But remember that Apple don't want the Mini to be in competition with the base iMac, their "core business" in the home computing market
I would like to see 3+ghz minis with a decent graphics option. That
is pretty much all I am hoping for right now. I have a 2.26 ghz mini
that I upgraded and love it, I use it in my design and other classes even.
When I do jump, it's going to be for at least a 3.06ghz mini with (hopefully)
a better graphics option and 8 gigs of ram. I may put an SSD drive in it
too. We'll see. Then this Mini is going under my tv.
=)
is pretty much all I am hoping for right now. I have a 2.26 ghz mini
that I upgraded and love it, I use it in my design and other classes even.
When I do jump, it's going to be for at least a 3.06ghz mini with (hopefully)
a better graphics option and 8 gigs of ram. I may put an SSD drive in it
too. We'll see. Then this Mini is going under my tv.
=)
Nice setup!
That the model I picked up last week too. Just waiting for my 24in Apple LED display to arrive tomorrow and I will take some new pics!
Pretty much guarantee's updates next month on both ACD and Mini tho!
Nice set up , how did you connect the mini to your Tv?
The candle really adds to the mood
Nice one.
Sorry, this is my big question because I want HDTV and My Mac but question if it will look like crap when connected and the best way to connect to a HDTV.