More mini mac switcher questions
I'm still in PC land, but should funds allow I am tempted to pick up a mini with a cinema display. (20") The thinking being, I can use the display on my PC as well.
But I have questions -
1 - Could the mini use my iTunes music stash on my PC's hard drive? (I would of course have the two systems always networked together) I only want to maintain one library, and besides, it's already over 30gb in size and with the mini's hard drive being so... mini...
2 - Is there a cheap way to switch the monitor signal over between the 2 machines? I assume the cinema display doesn't have 2 inputs?
3 - Is 512mb enough? 1gb sounds way too expensive. I would be using the machine basically to play about with, surf the web, do some Photoshop drawing on. Games and 3DS Max would be the domain of my PC.
4 - How does the cinema display behave on a PC? I have heard mixed reports of things not working properly. It would be connected to a Radeon 9800 Pro. I assume windows will have a nice suitable W/S native resolution for it?
I've wanted to get back into Mac for a long time, and am also in the market for a new display. So this may be the time, if will be easy to run it alongside my PC.
But I have questions -
1 - Could the mini use my iTunes music stash on my PC's hard drive? (I would of course have the two systems always networked together) I only want to maintain one library, and besides, it's already over 30gb in size and with the mini's hard drive being so... mini...
2 - Is there a cheap way to switch the monitor signal over between the 2 machines? I assume the cinema display doesn't have 2 inputs?
3 - Is 512mb enough? 1gb sounds way too expensive. I would be using the machine basically to play about with, surf the web, do some Photoshop drawing on. Games and 3DS Max would be the domain of my PC.
4 - How does the cinema display behave on a PC? I have heard mixed reports of things not working properly. It would be connected to a Radeon 9800 Pro. I assume windows will have a nice suitable W/S native resolution for it?
I've wanted to get back into Mac for a long time, and am also in the market for a new display. So this may be the time, if will be easy to run it alongside my PC.
Comments
2. not sure
3. 512 would be fine
4. I have never heard of such problems. sounds suspect
Originally posted by MrSparkle
4. I have never heard of such problems. sounds suspect
The problem I've run into using my old 22" Cinema Display on a PC with DVI is that until Windows boots up, I'm running blind. My Radeon 9600 doesn't seem to understand the display well enough to show BIOS boot-up stuff until the OS boots up with drivers for the display.
Any trouble-shooting regarding boot-up requires plugging in an old VGA monitor to see what's happening.