appleinsider.com — With Apple's recent 'State of the Mac' omitting any mention of the Mac mini and reports surfacing over the current line's discontinuation, there's been some speculation that the diminutive desktop's days may (again) be numbered. That's unlikely the case, say insiders, who are sharing new details.
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valleyman86Oct 24, 2008
I am anti apple yet I have an iPhone which actually kicks ass. I am saving some cash to buy a mac mini because it is cheap and I want to develope iPhone applications. Too bad we cant do this using windows...
digitalpencilOct 24, 2008
can't find anything confirming whether miniDP carries optical audio although it would make sense given it's larger cousin does.. in either case though, there is currently no miniDP>HDMI, you have to go miniDP>DVI>HDMI which is long winded and will obviously cut the audio out but picture will be crystal given it's a pure digital signal throughout..
digitalpencilOct 24, 2008
novel idea for a seedbox..
cybrwolfOct 24, 2008
hehe, your welcome! Yeah, I love the OS, and some of the hardware, but Damn some of the choices they make just burn me up!I fix/setup/repair Macs/PCs everyday, and Firewire make life a breeze for Cloning/Backing up/Migrating entire systems, or just individual users. Doing this over Ethernet is far far less efficientYes, I have a Universal HD to USB2 cable and it rocks, but you just can't target disk mode from USB.I had a customer who needed to add wireless to her PowerMac G5 (Dual 2.7GHz) and between the wifi/bluetooth card, the runway card, mounting screws, it bloody well cost her almost $250!!!! WTF!She didn't want a non-apple PCI card with external antennas, so she paid the price.
iamgnatOct 24, 2008
The issue with a GUI on a server is that A) no one should regularly be making use of it and B) it is using up resources (disk space, memory, cpu).I am not against using GUI tools to maintain servers/process, but that doesn't (and it actually doesn't in OS X Server, it's just a PITA to turn the GUI off and keep it off) mean that the Server needs to have the GUI.The problem with designing a GUI that takes every argument and option into account is that it clutters the UI and makes it more difficult to use (thus negating the purpose of the GUI to begin with). Also consider the problem of something like Apache that has a plug-in model that allows for additional configuration commands to be added. How does that get into the GUI? What if it is a module you rolled yourself that will never see the light of day outside your shop?GUI interfaces like Server Admin should simplify what the user can do and make what are normally painful or archane tasks simple. The problem with SA is that it does not just move on when it comes across something it doesn't understand, it has to make it fit it's own view of the world. In the SVN example I mentioned, I could at least understand if it blew away the whole SVN configuration. Instead it simply changes "Dav SVN" to "Dav Off".Command line utilities generally allow you to be more productive as it is far easier to A) parse the output and B) chain jobs together intelligently (e.g. stopping and alerting if there is an error). It's true that AppleScript helps somewhat in this regard but it has it's limits (which are mostly centered around if the App has good AS support or not).
mattbdOct 25, 2008
I always think the Mac Mini would make ideal hardware to use for a MythTV box, but I guess it's a little pricey for that kind of purpose.