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Mintel

aidan_walsh · 2006-03-01 20:43:37

http://www.apple.com/macmini/ The Mac Mini goes Intel. From €659 (€619 with educational discount), its still a little pricey but at least its rather comparable with the old prices. Now I just have to decide whether to take the plunge, or wait it out for the second gen hardware to come out...

01-03-2006 8:43pm

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http://www.apple.com/macmini/
The Mac Mini goes Intel.

From €659 (€619 with educational discount), its still a little pricey but at least its rather comparable with the old prices. Now I just have to decide whether to take the plunge, or wait it out for the second gen hardware to come out...

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#2 01-03-2006 8:56pm

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the hardware should be reliable enough

its the software you need to check as alot of software that isn't compiled for the MAC intel or isn't universal binary , that you may want to use will run as slow as 50% compared to the g4 g5

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#3 02-03-2006 10:02am

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Now's certainly the best time to buy the Mini. The PowerPC software will run, just not as fast as it should (about 4 times slower apparently) but with the speed increase in the processor this should be about the same speed as the older Mini ran at.

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