Mac mini

[Ceroc Addict]

Had an interesting realisation about the Mac mini - it's possibly one of the best computers around for travelling between home and work/uni.

Sure, you won't be able to use it on the train or anything, but:

• It must be half to two-thirds the weight of the 12" PB!
• It's about a third of the price of the 12" PB.

Anybody actually know the weight of the Mac mini vs the 12" PB?

Kap

[j79]

MacMini weighs in at 2.9 pounds (1.32 kg)
PowerBook 12" weighs in at 4.6 pounds (2.1 kg) with battery installed.

[ScottW]

2.9 doesn't include the weight of the power-brick.

[Ceroc Addict]

MacMini weighs in at 2.9 pounds (1.32 kg)
PowerBook 12" weighs in at 4.6 pounds (2.1 kg) with battery installed.

Thanks

How cool is that?

2.9 doesn't include the weight of the power-brick.

Does the PB weight above include it's power brick?

Kap

[ScottW]

No... but the PB "brick" is light-weight and just a power adapter, the power supply is in the PB, however, the Mac Mini, the power supply is external (hence how they could make it soooo small) and I am sure it is heavy.

[Ceroc Addict]

No... but the PB "brick" is light-weight and just a power adapter, the power supply is in the PB, however, the Mac Mini, the power supply is external (hence how they could make it soooo small) and I am sure it is heavy.

Possibly doesn't matter, since you can't use the Mac mini on the go anyway.

i.e. Just keep one brick at home and get another for the office.

Kap

[j79]

No... but the PB "brick" is light-weight and just a power adapter, the power supply is in the PB, however, the Mac Mini, the power supply is external (hence how they could make it soooo small) and I am sure it is heavy.

Very true.

I own a 20 ACD and the PowerBrick does weigh a bit. Probably about 1 or 2 lbs.

-- edit -- just saw the power brick for the mini in the 360 virtual on apple's site. thing looks HUGE!

However, the idea of having two stationary monitors and just lugging the Mac Mini back and forth is a cool idea.

I've only had two moments in my life when everything seemed to "slow down" as I watched something horrible happen.
The first was when I was in my first accident... Car parts going here, other parts going there... the idea of driving away flashing through my mind non stop!!

The other was when I dropped my Pismo. That was a horrible, horrible moment.. saw it just fall out of my bag and land on the left hand front corner. Probably dropped about 4 feet onto concrete. Was *sure* the screen would be cracked. But it wasn't. *whew*

So if I had a choice between lugging around a PowerBook with a screen or a MacMini from work to home, I'd choose the Mac Mini. Assuming that is, if I had no intentions of actually doing any work on the go...

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Looks like the new Mac mini only has 1 RAM upgrade slot (all of the RAM upgrades for the system are "1 DIMM"), and is not considered user-serviceable.

From the "Learn More" link under "Memory" on the Mac mini Apple Store page (when you're custom-configuring the machine):

Mac mini contains PC2700, 333MHz double data rate, synchronous dynamic random-access memory (DDR-SDRAM), one of the fastest memory technologies available today. Double data rate memory (DDR-SDRAM) provides twice the throughput of single data rate SDRAM and boosts overall system performance. Your Mac mini comes with at least 256 megabytes (MB) of memory. You can select additional memory up to 1 Gigabyte. You can upgrade your memory later by taking your system to an Apple Authorized Service Provider.

I wonder if Crucial or some other memory supplier will be able to supply a 2GB DIMM that will fit this machine...