The picture inside the Macminicolo of all the mac minis is surely impressive, but the picture is just as surely doctored.
The rack in the foreground shows the side edge full of xserves, but you cannot see these extending into the rack.
What do you think?
Is that frustration? I mean, almost everyone said the photos from the Mac Mini and it's box were fakes and now they are out. Seriously what's with everyone calling everything fake.
To all who said they were fakes..."b*tch got served!"
I'm happy to see that Apple still thinks FireWire is suitable for the consumers. So basically the only two Macs that lack FireWire now is the MacBook and MacBook Air. On the air I see the logic... but I really can't fully accept that there's no MacBook configuration with FireWire. I mean iMac and the Mini has it, and they are for the low end consumer aren't they? And the MacBook is such a powerhorse for serious work so.. oh well. Never mind.
A second FireWire port would have been nice, but I'll settle for FireWire 800.
Apple INVENTED FireWire, if I'm not mistaken, so I'm sure their licensing fees are rather low.
FireWire won't go away. With all the howling from Mac users about the omission of it from the MacBook unibody, I bet the Rev.B unibody MacBook gets a FireWire 800 port. FireWire is just far too useful to omit. FireWire Target Disk Mode is a life saver, never mind the speed and efficiency of FireWire for hard drives, audio and video gear.
The mini is a good, solid, if not very exciting update. The real graphics card is the kicker for me! When Snow Leopard is released (maybe sooner?) I'm getting one to connect to my HDTV, with an external FireWire drive to store all my media.
Apple INVENTED FireWire, if I'm not mistaken, so I'm sure their licensing fees are rather low.
I also thought FW was indeed Apple's child.
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Originally Posted by jeffharris
FireWire won't go away. With all the howling from Mac users about the omission of it from the MacBook unibody, I bet the Rev.B unibody MacBook gets a FireWire 800 port. FireWire is just far too useful to omit. FireWire Target Disk Mode is a life saver, never mind the speed and efficiency of FireWire for hard drives, audio and video gear.
Having said "FW", I did mean FW 800.
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Originally Posted by jeffharris
The mini is a good, solid, if not very exciting update. The real graphics card is the kicker for me! When Snow Leopard is released (maybe sooner?) I'm getting one to connect to my HDTV, with an external FireWire drive to store all my media.
No, I have no more hope for Minis. I don't think this recent restyling makes them more upgradable... I just let my old G4 machines do some more good to me for some more months until Snow Leopard is here... Then I would probably buy some used Mac Pro... We'll see
I'm happy to see that Apple still thinks FireWire is suitable for the consumers. So basically the only two Macs that lack FireWire now is the MacBook and MacBook Air. On the air I see the logic... but I really can't fully accept that there's no MacBook configuration with FireWire. I mean iMac and the Mini has it, and they are for the low end consumer aren't they? And the MacBook is such a powerhorse for serious work so.. oh well. Never mind.
Jesus, that's a lot of difference in the background color on the two iMacs. The old one shows white as white, the new one shows white as blue. Simple as that.
I'm glad it can supposedly be changed, but how on earth is this default setting a good idea?
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My guesses would be:
- people on average have many more USB devices (including keyboard and mouse) than FW
- you can daisy-chain FW
- USB ports are smaller so you can fit more
- USB port hardware is cheaper than FW
you're probably right. yet a little graceful gesture wouldn't have done any harm...
The picture inside the Macminicolo of all the mac minis is surely impressive, but the picture is just as surely doctored.
The rack in the foreground shows the side edge full of xserves, but you cannot see these extending into the rack.
What do you think?
Is that frustration? I mean, almost everyone said the photos from the Mac Mini and it's box were fakes and now they are out. Seriously what's with everyone calling everything fake.
To all who said they were fakes..."b*tch got served!"
why to add fifth usb port and not second fw port
A second FireWire port would have been nice, but I'll settle for FireWire 800.
Apple INVENTED FireWire, if I'm not mistaken, so I'm sure their licensing fees are rather low.
FireWire won't go away. With all the howling from Mac users about the omission of it from the MacBook unibody, I bet the Rev.B unibody MacBook gets a FireWire 800 port. FireWire is just far too useful to omit. FireWire Target Disk Mode is a life saver, never mind the speed and efficiency of FireWire for hard drives, audio and video gear.
The mini is a good, solid, if not very exciting update. The real graphics card is the kicker for me! When Snow Leopard is released (maybe sooner?) I'm getting one to connect to my HDTV, with an external FireWire drive to store all my media.
Apple INVENTED FireWire, if I'm not mistaken, so I'm sure their licensing fees are rather low.
I also thought FW was indeed Apple's child.
FireWire won't go away. With all the howling from Mac users about the omission of it from the MacBook unibody, I bet the Rev.B unibody MacBook gets a FireWire 800 port. FireWire is just far too useful to omit. FireWire Target Disk Mode is a life saver, never mind the speed and efficiency of FireWire for hard drives, audio and video gear.
Having said "FW", I did mean FW 800.
The mini is a good, solid, if not very exciting update. The real graphics card is the kicker for me! When Snow Leopard is released (maybe sooner?) I'm getting one to connect to my HDTV, with an external FireWire drive to store all my media.
No, I have no more hope for Minis. I don't think this recent restyling makes them more upgradable... I just let my old G4 machines do some more good to me for some more months until Snow Leopard is here... Then I would probably buy some used Mac Pro... We'll see
In the mini... do the hard disk drive and optical need to be removed to change the RAM?
...... and can you swap out the optical fro another hard drive??
I'm happy to see that Apple still thinks FireWire is suitable for the consumers. So basically the only two Macs that lack FireWire now is the MacBook and MacBook Air. On the air I see the logic... but I really can't fully accept that there's no MacBook configuration with FireWire. I mean iMac and the Mini has it, and they are for the low end consumer aren't they? And the MacBook is such a powerhorse for serious work so.. oh well. Never mind.
The white macbook still has FW.
pay all that money and get only half a keyboard?? What a good deal that is.
Mike
Recall!
The picture inside the Macminicolo of all the mac minis is surely impressive, but the picture is just as surely doctored.
The rack in the foreground shows the side edge full of xserves, but you cannot see these extending into the rack.
What do you think?
That's only because it's so dark inside the rack. You can't get picture where there's no light.
I'm glad it can supposedly be changed, but how on earth is this default setting a good idea?
Of course you people are just going to complain
Yup, Mac Mini and iMac updates are lacking in the value-for-money (compared to say, Apple in 2008)... Or maybe it's just the economy.