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eviltobz 26 Jan 2005 14:22:18 2,609 posts
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Hyoushi wrote:
You're not going to love the monitor when you have to run it on less-than-native resolution because the mini's 9200's video memory can't cope with Exposé in that res though ;_;

but you noticed that he said they're sending the monitor straight away, so he'll be using it on the powerbook for the time being so it's all good

anyway, like losty is saying it will work, just not as silky as you'd hope.

Edited by eviltobz at 14:24:42 26-01-2005

eviltobz 26 Jan 2005 14:27:04 2,609 posts
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Shivoa wrote:
Surely expose is more limited by the CPU's ability to throw around the pixels than the limited graphics memory to hold the 2D image? Isn't that what Core Image (or whatever it is called) is meant to change?

core image gets the gpu doing a bunch more stuff throughout the ui, but expose is handled by treating each window as a high res texture to sling around.

eviltobz 26 Jan 2005 15:03:01 2,609 posts
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Hyoushi wrote:
...Damn you tobz!...

/sharpens katana.

hurrah. i never expected the time we spent at ninjitsu lessons learning how to take a samurai's sword and kill him with it would have any use.

/does some painful-looking stretching exercises to prepare for battle.

otto Moderator 26 Jan 2005 16:56:38 49,322 posts
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lost_soul 26 Jan 2005 18:09:03 9,372 posts
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/eagerly awaits foof fotos

The Mac mini, does it use laptop memory?

eviltobz 26 Jan 2005 18:15:30 2,609 posts
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nope. normal dimms of some variety.

lost_soul 26 Jan 2005 19:16:05 9,372 posts
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rhythm wrote:
Not sure, but they sell it at Crucial

That reminds me, I need to order a half gig upgrade from them for my iBook.

bainbrge 26 Jan 2005 20:13:45 1,687 posts
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their prices have fooked up on the apple store. If you go for bluetooth and wifi together it costs Ł150, each individual adds up to Ł85. What?

Lucy 26 Jan 2005 21:12:25 78 posts
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The prices on the 1.4ghz are OK, and have gone down. The 1.25 is well chuffed though!

bainbrge 26 Jan 2005 22:06:04 1,687 posts
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otto wrote:
You can email me at ottocrat at gmail.

Otto, I would if only I had something interesting to say...

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sam_spade 3 Feb 2005 19:54:19 15,745 posts
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I like their Linux for Grandmother article.

GrandTheftApu 3 Feb 2005 20:12:05 6,117 posts
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sam_spade wrote:
I like their Linux for Grandmother article.

Hehe, it's much more obvious on this one that it's a send up. On the mac mini article after reading the first couple of paragraphs I thought what a twat, then it started to dawn on me that it wasn't serious.

Soumis 10 Feb 2005 12:59:41 216 posts
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Has anyone here got their Mini yet?

Precision-Auto 10 Feb 2005 13:01:50 345 posts
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nah still waiting on mine, but I'm also hoping for them to sort out my student discount! (nice if you can get it

).

Serraphin 10 Feb 2005 13:06:13 251 posts
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March 1st... hopefully sooner. Then I can put my pc to rest.

Bought some harman/kardon soundsticks yesterday in preparation. My they're pretty -and loud-

Precision-Auto 10 Feb 2005 13:08:22 345 posts
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I did notice there's quite a few of them already on ebay, and have been for some time. Quite interesting to see what you get in the box, if you are sad like me that is.

Soumis 10 Feb 2005 13:15:49 216 posts
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I read somewhere that there was a problem with the Chinese customs and the minis were stuck there.

In the UK store the expected delivery for a mini is now 2-3 weeks (it was 3-4).

Deleted user 10 February 2005 13:30:51

I walked into the Oxford Street store and they have sh1t-loads of them...

I suggest this might be a good option for those who want one and can get to a tube station easily...

Edited by Djini at 13:31:05 10-02-2005

Soumis 10 Feb 2005 14:41:22 216 posts
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Djini wrote:
I walked into the Oxford Street store and they have sh1t-loads of them...

I suggest this might be a good option for those who want one and can get to a tube station easily...

Edited by Djini at 13:31:05 10-02-2005

that is if you are after one without any option builds ;-)

eviltobz 24 Feb 2005 15:04:31 2,609 posts
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lol, but you are sounding pretty rough otto, and your name isn't looking as orange as usual, more a bit on the green side. you'd better take some time to sort yourself out

Khab 24 Feb 2005 15:39:59 6,583 posts
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/mails his commissioner

Nemesis 24 Feb 2005 15:41:43 20,312 posts
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otto wrote:
Shipped last night! Due to arrive tomorrow morning - let me hear you type w00t! \o/

But - what's this? Ulp - pain in stomach - cramps - must. resist. urgetovomit. Oh no! Please, not food poisoning now! Noooooooo! I hope I don't have to take a sickie tomorrow! That would be terrible!

/taptaptaptap

Nemesis 24 Feb 2005 15:54:19 20,312 posts
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/remembers the PB delivery issues

I do so hope they deliver it to the right country this time.

Patience, Jedi. It will turn up. We will, however, be expecting photos.

bainbrge 25 Feb 2005 19:39:54 1,687 posts
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otto wrote:
I am posting from my new Mac Mini! Hooray. Arrived today after all, just after breakfast. Nice one! Took hours to transfer all my stuff over from my powerbook, but now it's up and running.

First impressions: wonderfully small; in terms of operation, seems exactly the same as the powerbook, speed-wise. It's far noisier than I had expected - background hum at all times, quickly ratchets up to Ariane V levels when a few programmes are open. On that score I'm a bit disappointed, seeing as everyone had been saying how silent it is. The built-in speakers are absolutely dreadful, but that's to be expected. Photos will follow shortly...

I had heard that the 1.4 (?) version is much louder than the slower one. Maybe there is a setting in OSX to 'speed step' so full cooling isn't needed at all times? I think you mac users are spoiled re computer noise - my shuttle is fecking noisy, and I replaced the stock fan with a supposedly quiet one.

eviltobz 25 Feb 2005 21:15:48 2,511 posts
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bainbrge wrote:
I think you mac users are spoiled re computer noise

heh, thats probably true

/strokes g4 iWhack

my current gaming pc, which is considerably quiter than my old gaming pc sounds fuckin horrific these days.

lost_soul 25 Feb 2005 22:42:59 9,372 posts
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otto wrote:
FWIW, photos.

Ooo, very nice!

lost_soul 25 Feb 2005 22:54:11 9,372 posts
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The power supply looks quite big (in relation to the Mac mini, anyway), I wonder why they didn't use an iBook/iPod sized one?

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