my $.02

I had a Mac Color Classic back in college and it was the top of the line, yes I am getting old, dont remind me. Then 10 years of PC's.

I got intrigued with the iMac, but got all caught up in the recent update rumors and found myself waiting for an update. Better GPU, more RAM and less noise blah blah blah.

Finally after much thought, and then some more thought I came to my senses.

What did I really want?

1. I want the the iLife suite of software.
2. I wanted a stable platform
3. I am sick and tired of viruses and spyware
4. I wanted to not feel like im taking off in a 747 when im on my computer(fan noise)
5. and I want to enjoy computing again.

So I went to the apple store today(denver) and bought a stock 1.42 Mac Mini, and on the way home I got 512Megs of third party Ram.

I set it up , booted it up, and all t he normal stuff. Then I popped it open and installed the new RAM, (corsair, 512, PC 3200, blah blah blah) it recognized it just fine and I went right into imovie. Plugged my fire wire into my DVrecorder that is 4 years old, and downloadeda few clips to iMovie, then I arranged it how i wanted it, and made a small sample movie.

Then got frustrated trying to burn it( still cant figure out how to burn a CD while in Imovie), but saved the movie to the HD and then dragged and dropped to a blank CD and make a Quicktime movie I could send to my brother to watch on his computer.

point is......

I am having fun, I am surfing the web, making movies, and learning OS-X and the Mac agian. and it is FUN, and STABLE, and not as intuitive as I thought it would be, but im gettin along ok.

and the Mini!!!!

power Mac smauwer Mac, this thing is plenty fast. I got 512MEg's of RAM and 1.42 G4, comming from a PIII 933 with 256RAM. This thing is lightning fast. I dare say im set for a year, and for 700$ to boot!

Thank you apple, thank you Macrumors and for those on the fence, the GRASS IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE!

trout

 

thanks guys!

Well I downloaded a few clips(3) to iMovie, and dragged the clipsto the bottom of the page and arranged them so I was happy, not to hard and fairly intuitive. IT was fun playin with it, for sure.

So now i have my three clips arranged and named and saved. So I pop in CD, I dont have a DVD burner, I got the combo drive, so I can only burn CD's. But I was under the impression that i could burn a CDVD or something like that. Anyways, I coulnt find any options to " make a CD or Burn a CD" So I went to my " Movies" folder and found my movie i made, then dragged and dropped it to my blank CD, and then tried to Eject it, and it asked me if I wanted to " burn a CD" and I said YES and it burned it. Then I popped it in my old PC and it played just fine !!

BUT I wonder if there is a way to make a movie right from iMovie? or is iMovie jsut for editing and then you make a CD on your own? I dont know im new!, but its fun trying to figure it out.

I do however wish I had a big manual to read, im the kind of person that reads a manual. If there were 500 pages of info on how to use imovie and idvd and iphoto I would read it.

thanks for the help

trout

 

Thanks guys, ill read those manuals, eer purchase them.

I appreciate the replys.

trout