Mac Mini FACTS: Warranty not voided

[Mechcozmo]

nope, i can boot my cube headless and remote desktop into it, which i did for a while with my cube with ARD and SSH.

Interesting... a PowerTower Pro 225 (OS 8.6) doesn't behave that way, and I don't think my Dad's Quicksilver does but it hasn't been shut down in weeks.

 

[Mord]

it even works with no video card in it.

 

[panphage]

My cube boots headless just fine. So does the xserve (which I guess is not a mac so I don't know if that matters.) I would imagine the PowerMac Server towers boot and network just fine w/o a monitor, they were marketed and sold as server machines.

 

[pigwin32]

4200RPM drives don't "kill" performance. Just makes reading/writing a bit slower. And 60GB 7200RPM drives run close to $200 or so.

P.S. my 1Ghz TiBook has a 4200RPM drive and that hasn't slowed me down much at all.

I dropped a 60GB Hitachi 7200rpm drive into my 667 TiBook and I consider it some of the best money I've ever spent.

 

[solvs]

The 160GB drive in my PowerMac G5 is a Seagate Barracuda.

Thx. They must use all sorts of different ones. Mine was a WD, my Sister's was a Maxtor. Different machines, but I wonder if all G5s come with Seagates. I've been happy with them, but the retail kits come with 5 year warranties.

 

[tubedogg]

I still think this sounds fishy. If they wanted it to be easily accessable by the user they would have made the shell more user friendly. As it stand it looks like its heald together the same way the PowerBook is - with clips.

"Easily accessible" and "doable" are two different things.

At any rate, Macworld (whom I would consider pretty reliable and not prone to printing rumors) was told by Apple that "you can [upgrade the RAM] yourself without voiding your warranty 'unless you break something when you open it.'" Source: http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2005/01/miniapplesandoranges/index.php