The mini has a security slot so you can cable it to the desk. But yeah, it's small enough to hide in a briefcase/purse pretty rapidly.
Having worked in a A/V dept that locked down VCRs DVD players and PCs like this: I can tell you that those locks are a joke, when de-constructing video carts in a rush, a small pair of tin snips worked wonders...
And how do you deal with the ram hit and how well does GMA 950 run the 3d desktop in windows vista and mac os x 10.5?
Well, the GMA950 supports Core Image, and I think Quartz Extreme. It's as Vista-capable as everyone else's low-end IG boxes (which are what businesses buy). In terms of RAM, the iMac and MBP 15" are moving to 1 gig this fall prolly*, figure by Feb if we're lucky, the whole line is there.
GMA950 is fine for anyone who wants to do basic stuff. I intern in a cubicle farm right now (for 4 more days...) and I can tell you that 90% of the people there use email, Word, a custom Access database, in-office-IM, and maybe a web browser. You can get away with doing that on a GMA9xx w/ 512 RAM. I do it on a sub-GHz box running XP w/ 256 RAM. A mini would be fine. You have this idea that the whole world wants or needs a computer with a x1800GTO and a GB of RAM, 2 HDDs, a Pentium D, and an SLI-ready Mobo at a minimum. The world wants and needs something to run their apps. What you and I want and what 99% of the computing world would be fine with are totally different things.
*I base that RAM prediction on the fact that the Mac Pro and the 17" MBP went to 1 gig standard, and the fact that that's how the jump from 256->512 went, IIRC.
I forget which thread someone mentioned it, but someone noted that there were six SATA links in the computer according to an Apple hardware diagram. I think I figured out that their likely locations are - in the optical drive bays.
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The mini has a security slot so you can cable it to the desk. But yeah, it's small enough to hide in a briefcase/purse pretty rapidly.
Having worked in a A/V dept that locked down VCRs DVD players and PCs like this: I can tell you that those locks are a joke, when de-constructing video carts in a rush, a small pair of tin snips worked wonders...
And how do you deal with the ram hit and how well does GMA 950 run the 3d desktop in windows vista and mac os x 10.5?
Well, the GMA950 supports Core Image, and I think Quartz Extreme. It's as Vista-capable as everyone else's low-end IG boxes (which are what businesses buy). In terms of RAM, the iMac and MBP 15" are moving to 1 gig this fall prolly*, figure by Feb if we're lucky, the whole line is there.
GMA950 is fine for anyone who wants to do basic stuff. I intern in a cubicle farm right now (for 4 more days...) and I can tell you that 90% of the people there use email, Word, a custom Access database, in-office-IM, and maybe a web browser. You can get away with doing that on a GMA9xx w/ 512 RAM. I do it on a sub-GHz box running XP w/ 256 RAM. A mini would be fine. You have this idea that the whole world wants or needs a computer with a x1800GTO and a GB of RAM, 2 HDDs, a Pentium D, and an SLI-ready Mobo at a minimum. The world wants and needs something to run their apps. What you and I want and what 99% of the computing world would be fine with are totally different things.
*I base that RAM prediction on the fact that the Mac Pro and the 17" MBP went to 1 gig standard, and the fact that that's how the jump from 256->512 went, IIRC.