I have just ordered a 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2Gig ram, Superdrive, 120Gig HD Mac Mini from Apple.........and i can't wait!! Should be with me in a week's time.
awesome
did you remember the keyboard, mouse, monitor and external hd?
So that's 2 sets of balls to lick!! YAY!Praise the Lord!
You're gonna be like a dog with two thingies.
he won't get it, i'm intercepting the delivery
LOL
Have you not already joined the enlightened side?
Are we going to have to convince you to part with your hard earned aswell?
It's being delivered to Dorking Police station so we can trace where it's gone i.e you!!
Watching, were always watching!!
I've got an all singing all dancing Intel Mac Mini that I use for HTPC. For that it works beautifully and I've no reason to think it wouldn't perform ok with basic photo editing etc as my PC is only a 2.4 C2D and that zips along just fine and only starts chugging when I'm doing massive pano edits with multiple adjustment layers.
I wouldn't want to do video editing on it but for photo editing I would have thought a MM would be fine?
P.S. I wouldn't swap to one from a faster machine though, as that wouldn't make much sense!
I just use Frontrow and the supplied remote, just for basic video content and music - so not gone too crazy with it.What software do you use as a HTPC? I use boxee which I find very good.
I disagree...
Last august i was running a Core 2 duo 2.6ghz with dedicated graphics, 4gb ram, etc etc.
I went out and got the 2ghz mini, upped the ram to 2.5gb, and i have a couple of external drives connected to it.
I have absolutely no problems running:
Photoshop and Bridge CS4 for post processing in camera raw
Premiere and Encore CS4 for Video Editing
Dreamweaver CS4 for Web Design
and a host of other less demanding programs.
I will admit it may take marginally longer to render a large image in photoshop, but not so long as i feel its a problem.
The OS is rock solid, and it has never crashed on me
For the odd piece of windows software i run parallels in the background so i can launch windows programs on my mac desktop.
What you have to remember is windows is so badly written, that a PC needs much more speed than a Mac, because the OS is very resource hungry.
This is true but he already has the PC that does everything he needs it too so why spend out on the MAC that won't give him any additional benefit and if anything will be marginally slower?
but he says his PC is perfectly reliable so there is no need on the reliability basis