The new Mac mini webpage is up… I’m gonna get me one of them…
So what is it? It’s a $499 headless mac, a little bigger around than a CD, and about 3 inches tall (as you see above). No mouse or keyboard or monitor. If they can just come up with some decent home theater stuff for it, it’s going right in my living room, and maybe my dad’s home theater, too.
This is the greatest Macworld in history man. Unfucking believable. That thing is the greatest thing they’ve come out with since the original iMac.
An iMac and a iPod for $600!!!
Eh, it’s still just a G4. If they had figured a way to get a G5 in that form factor, they’d have cornered the market. At least you can get it with a Superdrive and up to 1GB of memory.
Still, it’s only 2 flippin’ inches tall and 6.5″ the other ways; that’s smaller than my external CD burner.
I’m duly impressed. $499? You might be hard-pressed to get a comparable G4 off eBay for that…
here come the windows-type of compatibility problems… “My screen doesn’t work with this thing…”, “My keyboard…”, “My mouse…”, “How do I upgrade this thing?” :)
Then there’s, “Someone came in, put it in their pocket and walked away…”
Neebe, I don’t recall ever having any kind of mouse, keyboard, or monitor compatability problems with windows OR mac. They all use very basic instructions internally… only time you have any headache at all is when there are special extended drivers, like programming 20 button mice and specialized gaming keyboards and so on.
Sorry I’m going to say that in french, neebe : you’re a “peine a jouir”.
Sorry for you
Maybe Neebe is referring to a PS/2 mouse that many Windows PC’s still ship with. Or that people will have laying around the house, and won’t work with the iMac Mini.
A G5? Yeah right. I’d love to see them even fit the processor in that thing, let alone keep it cool. Plus there is no way a G5 would be $499. If they did that the thing would not have been “mini” and it would have cost $999 and no one would buy it.
I think this is a perfect little machine and I was really blown away by it.
I dunno. when I hear “windows type compatibility problems” I think “fatal OS crash from driver conflict” rather than “my mouse plug won’t fit in any of the holes” (is *that* what they’re calling it these days?)
I think people forget sometimes in the awe of the G5 that the G4s are still bloody fast processors… my coworker has an imac G4 800 and that’s easily as capable as my older Athlon XP 1800 processor (I think those are 1.53 GHz). It’s not as fast as my newer 2500, but there’s not alot I do that uses the processor that much… at that point, system memory is always the bottleneck, not processor. I need another half gig, minimum
True, a G5 might be difficult to fit into that size, but they managed to squeeze one into the iMac and two into the Xserve and still keep them cool. Who knows what’s next.
And I agree with JC: Before I bought my G5, I seriously considered just getting a dual G4. But even with the G5′s out, the cost factor between the two was small enough to make it sensible to spend the extra bucks.
At $499, that thing will undoubtedly sell like hotcakes. Mac geeks loved the Cube and now they have it again. I’d like to see more memory capability and bigger HDD, but at that price, it’s already a sweet machine.
Hrm… got my dad a 19″ LCD for his old Pentium 3. His birthday is next month: Perhaps it’s time to free him from the Micro$oft overlord?