You say, "how would a mac mini work for graphics/publishing?" jcnmonkey [to you]: probably too slow jcnmonkey [to you]: well, depends on what you're doing, and how long you want the machine to last. You [to jcnmonkey]: yeah. i think they need to stick with high end g3/4's You [to jcnmonkey]: not for me. You [to jcnmonkey]: my friend's company wants to switch over to pc because they're "cheaper" and he's in charge of researching options clay says, "mac mini's probably not enough" clay says, "though with enough ram" clay says, "dunno" jcnmonkey says, "talk about TCO and spammy things." jcnmonkey says, "the amount of time people spend wiping viruses off of machines and the like." You say, "oooh good point...." clay says, "viruses and spyware etc" jcnmonkey says, "and networking."
As exarian said, Dell is cheap for a reason. Things have really gone downhill for those guys. I used to really think they were the best PC company around. Now, I'm pretty convinced they blow, if all the personal, Dell anecdotes I've heard from various people are anything to go by.
Also, you may or may not know that the Mac is going Intel, starting in less than a year. The first machines to get Pentiums (or some sort of x86 chips) will be the minis and the iBooks. While we're still really far away from actual release, the dev machines are running fast and emulating PowerPC code pretty well. The word from Cupertino is that they will do nothing to keep an Intel-based Mac from running Windows, so it's possible that you could have both OSes running on a Mac, and since the Mac will be using a Pentium, Windows will run pretty much as fast as it would on a PC with the same chip/bus. Just more to think about.
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jcnmonkey [to you]: probably too slow
jcnmonkey [to you]: well, depends on what you're doing, and how long you want the machine to last.
You [to jcnmonkey]: yeah. i think they need to stick with high end g3/4's
You [to jcnmonkey]: not for me.
You [to jcnmonkey]: my friend's company wants to switch over to pc because they're "cheaper" and he's in charge of researching options
clay says, "mac mini's probably not enough"
clay says, "though with enough ram"
clay says, "dunno"
jcnmonkey says, "talk about TCO and spammy things."
jcnmonkey says, "the amount of time people spend wiping viruses off of
machines and the like."
You say, "oooh good point...."
clay says, "viruses and spyware etc"
jcnmonkey says, "and networking."
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(Anonymous) 2005-07-20 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)As exarian said, Dell is cheap for a reason. Things have really gone downhill for those guys. I used to really think they were the best PC company around. Now, I'm pretty convinced they blow, if all the personal, Dell anecdotes I've heard from various people are anything to go by.
Also, you may or may not know that the Mac is going Intel, starting in less than a year. The first machines to get Pentiums (or some sort of x86 chips) will be the minis and the iBooks. While we're still really far away from actual release, the dev machines are running fast and emulating PowerPC code pretty well. The word from Cupertino is that they will do nothing to keep an Intel-based Mac from running Windows, so it's possible that you could have both OSes running on a Mac, and since the Mac will be using a Pentium, Windows will run pretty much as fast as it would on a PC with the same chip/bus. Just more to think about.
Lance
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