Comments on: What My New Mac Will Be …?

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:30:38 +0000

Oh, and to your other question, Brad: any new mini is not going to have the horsepower that this iMac will have, and if I’m going to spend more than $1000 on a new Mac, I’m going to get something with either lots more juice than the mini [MBP or iM] or a killer form factor and more juice [MBA].

And as to Jason’s keep-it-pretty question: I’ve been considering replacing my aging Linksys router with a Time Capsule, which would give me wireless switching and a place to dump Time Machine towards. Also, I expect that my mini will stay on my desktop, and I’ll be back to two machines. But then I’m close to building my new desk and making that work for me.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:22:25 +0000

Yeah, when I wrote “… when the Linux community is really going to go out of its way to support the Eee,” the driver support and software updates is really what I meant.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:06:49 +0000

More reason to not put Leopard on an unsupported machine? How about:

– no support from Apple
– no Software Update
– driver issues
– no upgrade support
– a lack of documentation

Sure, you could do it to say you could, but what’s the point? If you’re going to run OS X, run it on fully-supported Apple hardware. Otherwise you might as well run Linux — at least there’s a greater chance of it working.

Geof: Any rumours floating around that the Mini is going to be updated any time soon? Or is “any time soon” too late for you?

By: Will

Will — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:58:12 +0000

For no other reason than to say you did it. What more reason do you need?

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:11:20 +0000

Jason: I hear you on all points. You’ve summed up why I have only bought minis to date.

Will: I don’t see the point in putting Leopard on a machine it wasn’t designed for, when the Linux community is really going to go out of its way to support the Eee.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:45:59 +0000

Get the iMac and one of the new 8.9″ Eee PCs when they drop in the next couple of months. Then throw Leopard on it and be done. To hell with Apple’s “you can only use our software on our hardware” attitude.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:44:12 +0000

1) I’ve used the nice iMacs and they’re pretty nice. I thought I’d hate the formfactor, but it seems to work alright.

2) You probably want to make SURE that the display issues which have been killing Apple recently aren’t affecting these boxes… you do enough photography to need the bitdepth. I don’t know one way or the other if it’s a problem with these systems… it seems to be limited to laptops though.

3) Do you REALLY want to upgrade the monitor when you upgrade the system, and vice versa? Not that apple leaves you much choice short of a Mac Pro.

4) How will you handle external disks (while keeping them pretty)?