Mac mini

[bookem]

what really impresses me is that for the first time in years... apple offers competitive prices in Europe as well

i will reward them :P

Yeah, hardly worth thinking about importing one from the US or Asia.

All my colleagues are PC users, but they've all heard about the mini, and most are thinking about getting one because the prices are so good.

[andychrist]

Thanks Viro, just found that list too.

Still get the impression that Core Image is more of a developer's tool than a must-have for certain graphic performance, like Open GL/Quartz Extreme, unless it is targeted mainly at gaming? In which case I can see why the mini wouldn't need to support it.

[karavite]

Not sure if this was covered before, but as soon as I saw the mini it reawakened my desire to have a little file server here at home, just for kicks. Seems like it would be the perfect little computer for such a thing - no? Maybe? On this same line, how would one run the mini "remotely" from my another Mac - I want to avoid getting another monitor/keyboard... and/or using monitor/keyboard switch boxes.

[Randman]

Firewire cable, ethernet cable, Airport.

[karavite]

I know that! - just never ran a mac remotely before and don't know how it is done. I'll search or post on the sw forum.

[bookem]

Not sure if this was covered before, but as soon as I saw the mini it reawakened my desire to have a little file server here at home, just for kicks. Seems like it would be the perfect little computer for such a thing - no? Maybe? On this same line, how would one run the mini "remotely" from my another Mac - I want to avoid getting another monitor/keyboard... and/or using monitor/keyboard switch boxes.

Would be the perfect Mac, but you'd have to look into Remote Desktop or something similar. I'd want one for exactly that, and another one for a media center type thing.

[blue&whiteman]

I bet this mac mini will increase apples market share at least a full 1% within 6 months.

[Captain Code]

Thanks Viro, just found that list too.

Still get the impression that Core Image is more of a developer's tool than a must-have for certain graphic performance, like Open GL/Quartz Extreme, unless it is targeted mainly at gaming? In which case I can see why the mini wouldn't need to support it.

The min vid card use to be a Radeon 9600, but they have changed the Tiger pages around a lot since yesterday.

CoreVideo will be used by Quicktime 7 to do the live resizing and if you watched the keynote, you can see that they have changed how Quicktime goes to full screen. It live zooms the video to the full screen instead of fading black and then fading in the video.

All the effects in the Dashboard such as rotating widgets and the ripple effects are also going to require a good video card. That has more to do with Quartz 2D Extreme though I think.

So, someone get one, install Tiger and tell us if it all works!