The mini-Mac is not at all an innovative concept. All Apple did is miniaturize a computer using off the shelf components, and since the limiting factor is the size of a CD/DVD drive, the computer is about the shape of a CD drive. Intel did the same thing.
Chances are good that if Dell were to make a "mini", they would add better RAM expandability, maybe a better video chipset or even an agp slot, and would include a full array of ports on it. As usual, Apple's execution of the mini contains a few glaring flaws aimed at boosting profit margins and at shortening the computer's usable life-span. Which is forgivable since Apple priced it right, but still annoying.
What would be most impressive is if Apple were to offer a mini-tower, with an agp video slot, three RAM slots, room for an extra HD, and a dual G4 daughter card. Apple could just take the old Powermac G4 and miniaturize it. If Apple could do that, and end up with design about the size of a few minis stacked together, it would be real innovation.
"As usual, Apple's execution of the mini contains a few glaring flaws aimed at boosting profit margins and at shortening the computer's usable life-span"
fair enough....
i would say though the Mini reduces your usable life-span of the computer to say, 1 year if you are a power user (in which case why are you buying the Mini???), 2 years for an average user hungering for more, 3 years maybe after you put a phat 1 gig 2700 ram stick in it....
using Windows reduces a usable life-span of a computer to, oh, say, 1 week !!!!
Windows reduces a usable life-span of a computer to, oh, say, 1 week !!!! [/B]
Are you sure. I once did a fresh install and on first boot, explorer.exe crashed. okay, first boot, fair enough. Worked great for about 3 days then stated agian. Okay, maybe it is an unstable configuration inside.
ANother day, another time...my grandfather gets a new windows PC and i run ad-aware and Spybot first thing. Oh look, spyware. (okay, maybe some windows thing). Three days later, more spyware.
And then there was mac. No real problems until very recently (hardware) and that, apple care will fix in about two days. Plus the problem came from the intense wear and tear i put on my PB 12".
.....Plus the problem came from the intense wear and tear i put on my PB 12".......
i hear ya brother... if anything that is why apple hardware can fail sometimes, just that we're bloody maxing our Apple stuff 24/7, pushing it hard because we dont have to worry about crashes/virus/spyware/etc etc etc....
No. They would not. They would have two versions. One would have only a CD-Rom drive, 40GB hard drive and 256MB RAM, and integrated video, and a slow processor, and it would cost $399 (Windows $50 extra). The other would have 512MB RAM and a fast chip and a DVD-R and a fast video card and cost $999. They'd advertise "as low as" $399 price with the features of the top model.
Then the PC fanboys would say look at this one! It's way better and way cheaper than the Mac Mini POS.
Sad, but that is how it works.
When you boil it down to essentials, "dell" is just giving
information to the customer. WHAT that information is,
HOW it is given to the costumer and WHEN it is given to
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Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg
The mini-Mac is not at all an innovative concept. All Apple did is miniaturize a computer using off the shelf components, and since the limiting factor is the size of a CD/DVD drive, the computer is about the shape of a CD drive. Intel did the same thing.
Chances are good that if Dell were to make a "mini", they would add better RAM expandability, maybe a better video chipset or even an agp slot, and would include a full array of ports on it. As usual, Apple's execution of the mini contains a few glaring flaws aimed at boosting profit margins and at shortening the computer's usable life-span. Which is forgivable since Apple priced it right, but still annoying.
What would be most impressive is if Apple were to offer a mini-tower, with an agp video slot, three RAM slots, room for an extra HD, and a dual G4 daughter card. Apple could just take the old Powermac G4 and miniaturize it. If Apple could do that, and end up with design about the size of a few minis stacked together, it would be real innovation.
"As usual, Apple's execution of the mini contains a few glaring flaws aimed at boosting profit margins and at shortening the computer's usable life-span"
fair enough....
i would say though the Mini reduces your usable life-span of the computer to say, 1 year if you are a power user (in which case why are you buying the Mini???), 2 years for an average user hungering for more, 3 years maybe after you put a phat 1 gig 2700 ram stick in it....
using Windows reduces a usable life-span of a computer to, oh, say, 1 week !!!!
Originally posted by sunilraman
Windows reduces a usable life-span of a computer to, oh, say, 1 week !!!!
Are you sure. I once did a fresh install and on first boot, explorer.exe crashed. okay, first boot, fair enough. Worked great for about 3 days then stated agian. Okay, maybe it is an unstable configuration inside.
ANother day, another time...my grandfather gets a new windows PC and i run ad-aware and Spybot first thing. Oh look, spyware. (okay, maybe some windows thing). Three days later, more spyware.
And then there was mac. No real problems until very recently (hardware) and that, apple care will fix in about two days. Plus the problem came from the intense wear and tear i put on my PB 12".
Originally posted by Jwink3101
.....Plus the problem came from the intense wear and tear i put on my PB 12".......
i hear ya brother... if anything that is why apple hardware can fail sometimes, just that we're bloody maxing our Apple stuff 24/7, pushing it hard because we dont have to worry about crashes/virus/spyware/etc etc etc....
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Originally posted by tonton
No. They would not. They would have two versions. One would have only a CD-Rom drive, 40GB hard drive and 256MB RAM, and integrated video, and a slow processor, and it would cost $399 (Windows $50 extra). The other would have 512MB RAM and a fast chip and a DVD-R and a fast video card and cost $999. They'd advertise "as low as" $399 price with the features of the top model.
Then the PC fanboys would say look at this one! It's way better and way cheaper than the Mac Mini POS.
Sad, but that is how it works.
When you boil it down to essentials, "dell" is just giving
information to the customer. WHAT that information is,
HOW it is given to the costumer and WHEN it is given to
them is a whole different story.
Trap trap trapissimo
There is no rule that says a plot must
be planted chronologically.
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Originally posted by Vox Barbara
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There is no rule that says a plot must
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yeahh... with regard to computer advertising, seems like this is yet another area for courts and lawyers to decide the rules
no shame....whatsoever...