With Mini on the ropes ... what's for switchers ?


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HerbVista

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Been avidly listening to the Podcast and visiting the Apple stores waiting for the Leopard to be released and the Mac Mini to be upgraded to the Santa Rosa Intel chipset ... but horrors ... been seeing rumours on the websites that the Mini is endangered !!!
Ohhh nooo ... what's a "switcher" to do ?
From eMaccast it seems that it is wise to wait for Jan 2008 to see if any new products come out ... but if no new Mac Mini ? .... what would be a Mac subsitute choice for a PC switcher ?
Macbooks seem most Mini-like but have little screens ...
iMac's are like a laptop stuck on a desktop without the flexibility of the Mini ...
Help !!!
P.S. Love the podcast ... terrific/thoughtful discussions on technology in our society ... with Mac's as a pivital point for these discussions ...
 
HerbVista said:
Been avidly listening to the Podcast and visiting the Apple stores waiting for the Leopard to be released and the Mac Mini to be upgraded to the Santa Rosa Intel chipset ... but horrors ... been seeing rumours on the websites that the Mini is endangered !!!
Ohhh nooo ... what's a "switcher" to do ?
From eMaccast it seems that it is wise to wait for Jan 2008 to see if any new products come out ... but if no new Mac Mini ? .... what would be a Mac subsitute choice for a PC switcher ?
Macbooks seem most Mini-like but have little screens ...
iMac's are like a laptop stuck on a desktop without the flexibility of the Mini ...
Help !!!
P.S. Love the podcast ... terrific/thoughtful discussions on technology in our society ... with Mac's as a pivital point for these discussions ...
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The Santa Rosa chipset isn't going to offer all that much of an improvement, aside from, perhaps, the ability to install more memory and somewhat faster internal graphics. On the other hand, the mini is really an unsung hero in Apple's line, one that has been widely ignored.

Oh, and by the way, the MacBook can support a second display, if you want to consider that as a relatively low-cost alternative.
 
Ahhh ... maybe the MacBook is the answer after all ... using a external monitor when at the desktop ... plus the MacBook has the X3100 video chip ... hopefully MacWorld will finalize/show the direction of the MacBook (and Mini) for 2008 ...

Thanks for the suggestion !

Also ... in preparation for the Mac switch, have started to use Parallels on Vista instead of VMWare ... found that the recent service pack has added some fine tools for the Vista/XP version and now seems a bit lighter weight than VMWare ... possibly better Virtualization support on the new Core 2's .... running the Red Hat related Linux'es via Parallels on Vista ... but had problems with the Debian based distro's .... maybe once on the Mac I won't feel compelled to bother with the Linux'es ..
 
HerbVista said:
Ahhh ... maybe the MacBook is the answer after all ... using a external monitor when at the desktop ... plus the MacBook has the X3100 video chip ... hopefully MacWorld will finalize/show the direction of the MacBook (and Mini) for 2008 ...

Thanks for the suggestion !

Also ... in preparation for the Mac switch, have started to use Parallels on Vista instead of VMWare ... found that the recent service pack has added some fine tools for the Vista/XP version and now seems a bit lighter weight than VMWare ... possibly better Virtualization support on the new Core 2's .... running the Red Hat related Linux'es via Parallels on Vista ... but had problems with the Debian based distro's .... maybe once on the Mac I won't feel compelled to bother with the Linux'es ..
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A lot of what you can do on Linux can be done on your Mac, particularly through the command line in Terminal. More interesting is the fact that many people who attend Unix and/or Linux conferences have Apple notebooks with them.

Oh, and by the way, all our sites are run under CentOS, which is Linux, but we manage via the Web so I can do it all on any computer with any OS.
 
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