I'd just settle for an official release of updated Mac minis. With MW just 2 months away I won't be expecting anything important from now till then. An Apple DVI KVM would be nice though, geez that market NEEDS quality, reliable KVMs that support 30" Widescreen and below.
Well, looking at the $600 price gap between the high end min Mac($699) and the low end iMac($1299), I have to conclude Apple will be filling this void with something.
Let's see now,
SFF computer
1.8/2.0 GHz dual core single cpu 900MHz/1.0GHz FSB
Well, looking at the $600 price gap between the high end min Mac($699) and the low end iMac($1299), I have to conclude Apple will be filling this void with something.
Let's see now,
SFF computer
1.8/2.0 GHz dual core single cpu 900MHz/1.0GHz FSB
Nvidia Geforce 6600 256 MB SDRAM
Combo Drive for low end Superdrive for high end
160 GB Hard Drive
2 Firewire 800 ports
1 USB 2 port
built in Airport
built in bluetooth
$899 - $1199
Warning: I have been known to not have a clue.
Nice, but me thinks it's too late into the holiday season to unveil another consumer product...especially a new desktop.
While I'd really like to see a bumped Mac Mini + infrared receptor port + Apple Remote + Front Row bundle, to make a kick ass home theater system, the timing would mean it would have to be something like a 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4, 512MB, 80HD, ATI 9200 system, which though adequate is a bit on the light side.
I'd actually prefer the (wilder) rumors of the first Intel-based Mac Mini appearing at MWSF in January to be true.
(If the former though I'd still buy one the second it was announced, as would many other people for their Christmas stocking! Hell, maybe even instead of an Xbox 360.)
how 'bout a pink dongle? now that's just rude ah anyway ok i suppose i should contribute to this thread. umm...
i call updated Xserves to reflect quadcore and dualcore goodies for the people into that sort of stuff. end of story. madonna pink iPod released next week? possible, but it really is late to the christmas frenzy so, i don't know 'bout that. edit:
i strongly feel madonna pink iPod will not be released now, if anything, for january-march 2006 quarter which normally is slow due to post-christmas die-down. so that would be a nice booster in that quarter to go with any new macintel/iLife'06/iPodding announcements.
I agree with a previous poster, its just making the mini update official. Which is cool..i'm typing on my neat little silent mini right now...perfect music and web browsing machine.
heh. i just completed Switching my cousin's family over to a mac mini. played with it all day. it's awesome. purrs on 10.4.3 even with only 256mb and 4200rpm drive (they got the older model [original combo drive mac mini 1.2ghz] on a relatively decent deal) time with a mac mini is time well spent.
now. to slay the outlook express demons ARGHGHGHGH chargeeeee!!!
The iPod has two StrongARM-based processor cores, manufactured by STM Microelectronics, enhanced with a PortalPlayer chipset. Intel manufactures ARM processors, but is not involved with this one, as far as I know.
The Xserve RAID has Intel chips, yes. That's nothing unusual.
The iPod doesn't have StrongARM-based cores. It has ARM7 cores which are embedded inside the PortalPlayer chip. PortalPlayer are an ARM licensee therefore.
There is nothing Intel in the iPod at all. Intel is merely an ARM instruction set licensee, a license they got when they bought Digital, and hence got the StrongARM, which they have revamped into the current XScale product, which must be pretty lucrative as it is very popular.
This is exactly wrong. Scientific supercomputers have a useful lifespan of about 3 years after which they are consigned to teaching or some other purpose. In commercial CGI-based cinema applications, they usually do one major job before they are replaced. If you will remember, the original tower-based Virginia Tech cluster was replaced by the Xserve-based cluster after about a year. In other words, real people who have real work to do will get plenty work done by their PPC-based supercomputers before they are replaced by Intel-based systems.
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Let's see now,
SFF computer
1.8/2.0 GHz dual core single cpu 900MHz/1.0GHz FSB
Nvidia Geforce 6600 256 MB SDRAM
Combo Drive for low end Superdrive for high end
160 GB Hard Drive
2 Firewire 800 ports
1 USB 2 port
built in Airport
built in bluetooth
$899 - $1199
Warning: I have been known to not have a clue.
Originally posted by rickag
Well, looking at the $600 price gap between the high end min Mac($699) and the low end iMac($1299), I have to conclude Apple will be filling this void with something.
Let's see now,
SFF computer
1.8/2.0 GHz dual core single cpu 900MHz/1.0GHz FSB
Nvidia Geforce 6600 256 MB SDRAM
Combo Drive for low end Superdrive for high end
160 GB Hard Drive
2 Firewire 800 ports
1 USB 2 port
built in Airport
built in bluetooth
$899 - $1199
Warning: I have been known to not have a clue.
Nice, but me thinks it's too late into the holiday season to unveil another consumer product...especially a new desktop.
BTW, what is an SFF computer?
Originally posted by satchmo
Nice, but me thinks it's too late into the holiday season to unveil another consumer product...especially a new desktop.
BTW, what is an SFF computer?
SFF = Small Form Factor
By the way you're right and the computer spec's I listed are my own personal wish list and has been something similar for years.
I'd actually prefer the (wilder) rumors of the first Intel-based Mac Mini appearing at MWSF in January to be true.
(If the former though I'd still buy one the second it was announced, as would many other people for their Christmas stocking! Hell, maybe even instead of an Xbox 360.)
SFF computer (about the height of a SONY 17" lcd)
2.0 GHz dual core single cpu g5 933mhz FSB
1gb ram
nVidia Geforce 6800GS 256 MB
8x Superdrive DL standard
100 GB Hard Drive SATA
2 Firewire 400 ports
4 USB 2.0 ports
built in Airport 802.11g, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
$999 christmas special
iLife, iWork, preloaded with:
-X-Men 2: Rise of Apocalypse
-Quake4
-UT2004
-Pyschonauts
-Pacific Fighters
-Star Wars Lego
warning: Not going to happen
Originally posted by sunilraman
2.0 GHz dual core single cpu g5 933mhz FSB
Mathematical nonsense. G5 CPUs only come in 1:2 and 1:3 FSB arrangements. And a 1 GHz FSB on a $999 machine is quite indeed not going to happen.
Originally posted by sunilraman
well, aren't we all so serious today
Yes
Originally posted by hmurchison
Dreaming of a 2U Xserve based on Woodcrest/Greencreek with FB-DIMM and a nice helping of SASsy storage.
Ah hell forget that. Bring on the Madonna iPod!!
How about a pink Xserve?
Originally posted by Outsider
How about a pink Xserve?
I'm cool with that. Pink is the new Black.
i call updated Xserves to reflect quadcore and dualcore goodies for the people into that sort of stuff. end of story. madonna pink iPod released next week? possible, but it really is late to the christmas frenzy so, i don't know 'bout that. edit:
i strongly feel madonna pink iPod will not be released now, if anything, for january-march 2006 quarter which normally is slow due to post-christmas die-down. so that would be a nice booster in that quarter to go with any new macintel/iLife'06/iPodding announcements.
now. to slay the outlook express demons ARGHGHGHGH chargeeeee!!!
Originally posted by Chucker
The iPod has two StrongARM-based processor cores, manufactured by STM Microelectronics, enhanced with a PortalPlayer chipset. Intel manufactures ARM processors, but is not involved with this one, as far as I know.
The Xserve RAID has Intel chips, yes. That's nothing unusual.
The iPod doesn't have StrongARM-based cores. It has ARM7 cores which are embedded inside the PortalPlayer chip. PortalPlayer are an ARM licensee therefore.
There is nothing Intel in the iPod at all. Intel is merely an ARM instruction set licensee, a license they got when they bought Digital, and hence got the StrongARM, which they have revamped into the current XScale product, which must be pretty lucrative as it is very popular.
Originally posted by Mr. Me
This is exactly wrong. Scientific supercomputers have a useful lifespan of about 3 years after which they are consigned to teaching or some other purpose. In commercial CGI-based cinema applications, they usually do one major job before they are replaced. If you will remember, the original tower-based Virginia Tech cluster was replaced by the Xserve-based cluster after about a year. In other words, real people who have real work to do will get plenty work done by their PPC-based supercomputers before they are replaced by Intel-based systems.
Corrected I stand, and here I sit