BuRR

How cool?

Just got mine up and running. Love it!

Anyone else got one?

kernel

Yup, didn't work with the USB keyboard and mouse I had Got some others now so will have a play this week

JackClark

Very jealous. I was in an Apple store last week, luckily for my credit card they didn't have the spec I wanted in stock. What spec did you get?

kernel

The slow one with a memory upgrade.

Echo

Good choice. OS X is so good too isn't it?!

angrynorth

I got my girlfriends Mum and Dad one last week, had a whole weekend to play with it before I had to hand it over and its a spectacular little machine. Saving up for one myself to act as a little media centre under the telly.

They only got the 1.25 with the lowest memory but it seemed to cope quite well, the only time it slowed was during heavy file transfer, obviously because of the slow HD. Like all macs on OSX though, I'll bet a bit more RAM and it will fly.

I think I will be going for the 1.25 when I get together enough, it will be plenty fast enough for what I need, especially with Mac Massive upstairs.

BuRR

I've got the 1.25 with 512MB ram

Got airport and bluetooth too.

Love it... in fact, I've hardly been on the PC all weekend! (apart from a bit of CS: Source)

angrynorth

www.demomac.com to see some more of the funky stuff in OSX that you will no doubt discover over the next couple of months

ScoobyDoo555

Just waiting to get mine - going for a 1.25 with 512meg.....

Same sorta thing though - under the TV as a PVR..... now to find a firewire/USB capture card

Dan

ps Mike, how's life with two young uns!!

boxst

Hello

I don't really understand why anyone would want this? Well, I DO as it's really cool, but from a functionality perspective it's a low-spec'd computer. If I want to play movies, mp3's I would use a chipped Xbox.

Steve.

BuRR

It's not *that* lo-specced..... its not much slower than the wife's G4 Powerbook... what spec do you want?

JackClark

Xbox is way too noisy for me. Mac Mini is very, very quiet. That's enough of a reason.

pmacFTO

We have 2 G5s at work but I am seriously thinking about getting a Mini for home so I don't need to lug the G5 backwards and forwards...very nice wee machines and the spec is fine!!

RB5-Black

Change the fan on the Xbox and it's V quiet .

Xbox + Softmod + Media player £99 and whatever you pay for a quiet fan.

I'm with Boxst on this one

angrynorth

One crucial thing missing from the Xbox thing --> OSX.

boxst

But if it's a multi-media center, I just want to navigate to my movie and hit play. So I wouldn't think I need OsX? Unless I'm using it as a computer, and then I'd buy a better spec'd PC.

Steve.

angrynorth

Unless of course you want the ability to have a PC and a media centre at the same time, all in a much smaller box than an Xbox or a PC.

Coupled with the fact that processor power is irrelevant in OSX.

JackClark

<cough> Bull****!!! </cough>

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

guys missing the point again
thread started because he had one and loved it and it was just ideal for what burr wanted.
yes we know it is low specced but that is its market right now, low end, low specced, no frills, does the job etc
lets not start another pc/mac (and now xbox) argument.

oh and it's not the mac mini's fault that it has one of the most stable, advanced. virus, spyware free operating systems around

RB5-Black

Fanboy

stevencotton

Comparing an X-Box to a Mac .. now surely I've heard everything

angrynorth

You know that RAM is much more important in OSX.

RB5, I do love my XBox but I'd hardly call myself a fanboy

Jake

I quite fancy getting one of these, but how would you go about using it as a media centre.

Can you capture tv with it and then playback through the TV?

stevencotton

I'm not sure it's suited as a media player due to the lack of decent video and optical outputs, but that may change in future. I'll probably get one to replace my Cube at some point, but it won't sit under my TV just yet

Yesterday I was watching some HDTV SuperBowl ads on a brand new TOTR 15" PowerBook and even that had some judder full screen, they run perfectly fine on a G5 though.

boxst

Hello

But isn't that the market it is aimed at?

Steve.

stevencotton

No, it's a cheap Mac, which gives easier access to OS X for people that already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse and don't want to spend the extra. It was _hoped_ by a lot of people before it arrived (myself included) that that was the target market, buno.t It does its job perfectly, but it's not an HTPC.

Terminal emulation screw up, so I can't actually edit my sentences properly, make up the typos as you go along

Neil Smalley

I wanted once a as HTPC, but on doing some reading it's not that great at it. What it is good as is for a stylish box to sit in the living room with a flat screen etc so that someone can do some light surfing and letter writing. I guess it's the Apple equivlient of a ZX spectrum..

stevencotton

You're dreaming if you think it's a low powered machine, it isn't that far off of my PowerBook really and will more than handle what most users will throw at it.

Markus

The main reason the Mac mini exists is for 'switching'. Simply get a KVM and have a tiny little Mac sitting on top of your PC case, wham, switch between windows and Macintosh.

Ok, so you could use it as a media center, but it's not geared up for that really, as said it's mainly to tempt people away from PC's or so they'll use both platforms.