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Walter Burns
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7564 Posts
11/02
Posted - Jan 12 2005 : 6:15PM
Discuss



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Kperv
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1818 Posts
1/04
Posted - Jan 12 2005 : 6:32PM
Discuss? In teacher mode are we?

Looks cute.
If it's fanless or the fans are very quiet, it might do just nicely for most of my uses.

But I'd want an extra 256MB RAM, the 80GB HDD and a DVD burner which bump the price to $724. No longer quite so cheap.

Looking to buy one yourself Walter?

skronker
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9780 Posts
9/02
Posted - Jan 12 2005 : 6:56PM
@ $724 get an eMac instead,
Kperv
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1818 Posts
1/04
Posted - Jan 12 2005 : 7:06PM
Not if you've got a 19" ... TFT monitor already. The eMacs I've seen in the stores had awful monitors.
skronker
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9780 Posts
9/02
Posted - Jan 12 2005 : 7:31PM
Sure.

I like the eMacs though. I have a 03 iMac myself which I like a lot.

But prefer a 20 inch Mac standalone with a G5 -- next year maybe.

 
Walter Burns
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IAFD, supporters of beastiality. Just say no.
7564 Posts
11/02
Posted - Jan 12 2005 : 7:48PM
No. I just bought this.
The 20 inch version.



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skronker
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9780 Posts
9/02
Posted - Jan 12 2005 : 7:54PM
Oh, Daddy!

As featured in Jules Jordan's Feeding Frenzy 6 I love how JJ's movies are like huge advertisements for Apple. Must get a lot of squirt on the keyboards, though -- hence, always the latest model is featured.

agentspits
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49 Posts
4/04
Posted - Jan 12 2005 : 10:40PM
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Heinrich Dahlmear
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Palatine, Illinois
118 Posts
8/04
Posted - Jan 13 2005 : 12:08AM
I heard about this... very nice move on Apples' part. It's not high end, but it's designed to be completely silent, and have low power usage (85 watts *max* - in a Pentium 4 machine the processor uses that much on average!). And it's TINY - only 84 cubic inches in volume... There have been a couple PC type machines made that small, but they usually use Via C3 chips along with VIA's integrated graphics, and because of that have really low performance compared to this machine (and don't have the build quality Apple usually put into their machines, either).

Actually, while it can be used as an uber-small desktop machine, I think it has greater potential in other applications - such as a media center hooked up to a TV via the DVI to S-Video/Composite adapter and controlled remotely, or even better, you can run it headless (no monitor, keyboard or mouse) and have it boot into OSX in console mode, and use it as an ultra quiet network file server... or heck, both of those options at once.

This is a really neat product - on the message boards of the tech sites I frequent, people are going nuts over this thing, and a lot of PC users who've never owned a Mac before are planning on buying this. Apple is going to sell a ton of them - they'll be backordered for months.

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jamesn
Senior Member

Cambridge, MA
750 Posts
1/04
Posted - Jan 13 2005 : 3:16AM
i was excited about the htpc possibilities of the thing since it was so damn quiet, so i checked out what it would cost with the needed airport, a wireless keyboard for the couch, and another stick of ram to make it usable. it came to $926, which is a bummer and i went with the cheapest memory upgrade possible. apple is a bitch with letting you put stuff without their firmware on it, so you pay double for stuff like drives and cards--which is a sneaky way to drm stuff. for that price, it's not so impressive-the hard drive is still too small for storing video, 512 isn't standard and is still the bare minimum, and the single g4 is dated to the point it's marginal for some decoding functions-let alone encoding. you're also screwed on finding a decent and cheap tuner card. for around the same price you can put together a shuttle with 4x the storage space, gig of faster mushkin ram, wifi and gigabit, more usb ports, dual-layer dvd, windows xp, and a athlon64 939 if you build it yourself. that's a signifigantly superior computer, but if you want something that can check email and work as a dvd player and functions out of the box, the apple's still ok.
but it's kinda all 1-2 generation technology and it's going to be too dated to do much versus the emacs and imacs which are just a little more cash.
oatmeal
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Seeking Beauty
1738 Posts
8/04
Posted - Jan 13 2005 : 3:24PM
like most mac products... all sizzle no steak
Hurrab
Member

Denmark, EU
256 Posts
3/03
Posted - Jan 15 2005 : 6:39AM
You're a lucky man, Walter!

I would like a Mac myself, but since there are some Windows applications that I've got to use, I suppose I'll end up buying something like this

joeblow69
Member

946 Posts
2/00
Posted - Jan 15 2005 : 9:08AM
I ordered one! I think it'll make a great second computer. I'll set it up with a KVM switch and my current computer. Should arrive in about a week! woo hoo! :)
Kperv
The Cuddler

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1818 Posts
1/04
Posted - Jan 15 2005 : 9:36AM
Do tell how it measures up, joeblow69.

If Apple didn't have close to a $200 European mark-up, I'd be tempted.

As it is, I may flick together something with an ITX motherboard instead.

CJNeverWinter
Member

93 Posts
10/04
Posted - Jan 15 2005 : 4:59PM
they are nice machines if you dont need something super powerfull.

if you had a kid going off to college you could get them the 80GB version, a cheap monitor, mouse/keyboard combo and probably not spend more than $800.

I know my mom is looking for a new computer, she is using my old apple desktop machine, this is probably something she will look into.

I'd be tempted to get one myself if I didnt have my PowerBook G4 right now.




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