A Mac mini would be fine. The main slowness factors come from:
a) slower sys bus (not that big of a deal) b) laptop hard drives used in the mini (4200 rpm)
You can solve the latter problem by running an external Firewire or USB 2.0 drive offa the thing. Those are pretty cheap these days. Otherwise, I think they're good machines, and if I could change things, I'd go back in time and buy a Mac mini and an iBook 12" instead of the PB 15" I picked up. FYI, Mac minis appear to have the lowest failure rates of any Apple machines, according to Macintouch's informal polling. Ironic, but cool.
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(Anonymous) 2005-07-20 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)A Mac mini would be fine. The main slowness factors come from:
a) slower sys bus (not that big of a deal)
b) laptop hard drives used in the mini (4200 rpm)
You can solve the latter problem by running an external Firewire or USB 2.0 drive offa the thing. Those are pretty cheap these days. Otherwise, I think they're good machines, and if I could change things, I'd go back in time and buy a Mac mini and an iBook 12" instead of the PB 15" I picked up. FYI, Mac minis appear to have the lowest failure rates of any Apple machines, according to Macintouch's informal polling. Ironic, but cool.
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And the minis are so cute! :P
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