Mac OS X: Will Mac Mini sales follow the ipod success?
Graphics
by mrmacfixit
- 11/19/05 6:42 AM
In reply to: Mac mini by mhuddy
that is a function of the graphics card and not the lack of video memory.
The mini has a graphics card, as does my G4 tower, but it is not capable of showing all the eye candy, ripple effect, as the card itself is not capable of the Core Graphics required to produce it.
It's not running in a degraded mode, it just does not display, in the same way as it does not display on a multitude of other Macs.
P
I bought a Powerbook
by Jaeboy - 11/16/05 11:35 PM In reply to: Will Mac Mini sales follow the ipod success? by tabomaipod definitely made me want to tryout Mac system, so i picked a Powebook
Powerbook
by taboma - 11/17/05 11:40 PM In reply to: I bought a Powerbook by JaeboyJayboy, Thanks for your comment and post.
Just out of curiosity, what does a decent powerbook cost and what will you be using it for?
Do you store any music files on the powerbook.
Good way to load the ipod with the newest music.
How often do you download from Apple itune for 99¢ per tune?
Thanks,
-Kevin
Mac Mini and sales
by twyrick - 11/18/05 5:16 AM In reply to: Will Mac Mini sales follow the ipod success? by tabomaWhat I'm already observing is what always happens with Apple products. They release something innovative, and PC clone makers follow with a vengeance.
At the time of its release, the Mac Mini was the smallest desktop system money could buy with the feature-set it included (Radeon 3D video on-board, etc.). Windows PCs had the "Micro ITX" type motherboards out earlier, but nobody was able to put one into a complete package quite as small as the Mac Mini, or sell it retail on nearly as wide a scale so the "general public" could easily get one.
Now, you're seeing a number of ultra-small PCs popping up, trying to copy the Mini's "keep it small" philosophy.
The Mac Mini is a success, but is Apple going to "take the world by storm" with it? Nah. It's not going to be another iPod, where everbody you know seems to own one. The bulk of its sales have already happened, most likely. I know a number of people who were "on the fence" about Apple, watching them from a distance. They loved the OS X operating system and kept thinking about buying a Mac, but they were pretty "died in the wool" Windows PC users. The Mini gave a number of them an excuse to finally buy a Mac, without a huge financing committment. Of those people I personally know, several still treat their Mini as their "spare computer", mainly using the iLife apps like iPhoto and iTunes or taking advantage of its portability so they can ferry it back and forth to and from work. Others already resold or traded it off for something else. Sometimes a more powerful Mac, and other times, more Windows PC upgrades. Depends on how useful they found it.
mini sales
by leewv - 11/18/05 6:09 AM In reply to: Will Mac Mini sales follow the ipod success? by tabomaAlthough the mini will never compete with any of the more powerful PCs and Macs; it can bring people who want affordable desktop system without breaking the bank. I wish the mini had come out a few years earlier. I have already purchased one for each of my kids. I love having control over where they surf and IM. I now looking at buying as a mp3 jukebox and replace my three 200 disk cd players. The mini can be recognized one of the first good appliances for the home.
macs
by diddle - 11/18/05 7:43 AM In reply to: Will Mac Mini sales follow the ipod success? by tabomai read about a dell pc that costs around $399 which comes with a 17" LCD which runs great with osx on it and actually performs better than the fastest G5 on the market. i dont know much about it, but i do know people are running osx on pcs now because i saw a guy with it running on a dell laptop at a coffee shop. i think apple should concentrate on marketing their operating system more than their hardware, because their hardware is outdated and costs way too much. especially since they are going to intel cpus, which im pretty sure is what started this whole osx running on pc hardware in the first place. anyway, i think that mac minis are cool, but i built a pc out of a mini itx motherboard and a nintendo a couple years ago, and accomplished the same result. for about two thirds the cost....over a year before they did.
And that Dell
by mrmacfixit - 11/18/05 8:36 AM
In reply to: macs by diddle
will stop working shortly.
Why?
by R. Proffitt - 11/18/05 8:43 AM
In reply to: And that Dell by mrmacfixit
I have one that we use as CCTV recorder. It runs only that and has been at it for months.
What do you know that I should know?
Bob
Are you saying that you are
by mrmacfixit - 11/18/05 11:47 AM
In reply to: Why? by R. Proffitt
running OS X on a Dell, not an Apple Developer box, and using it as a CCTV Recorder?
I was referring the Dell, mentioned at the beginning of that post, that was currently running OS X, the cracked version.
I doubt the real version will run unless Apple is going to "allow" that to happen?
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ipod Boosting Mac Sales
by spawn05 - 11/18/05 7:15 PM In reply to: Will Mac Mini sales follow the ipod success? by tabomaI don't think that the ipod will increase Mac sales enough to make a big difference. Because the Mac mini comes striped down for $500 by the time you get up to Spec we are talking $800. Which is alot to pay for Mini PC. When you can get a real kicking pc for $600.
Plus the software is very expensive and not available everywhere.
Juan
Played a Role in My Choice!
by Gerry77 - 11/21/05 2:46 AM In reply to: Will Mac Mini sales follow the ipod success? by tabomaMy decision to switch to my iMac was at least partly due to the iPod purchase a few months before. I did take a closer look at the Mac and boy, am I happy! Convert for sure.
Don't know about the Minis, but...
by mds - 11/21/05 7:04 AM In reply to: Will Mac Mini sales follow the ipod success? by tabomaI have purchased a powerbook and an ibook since buying the ipod. I ended up taking a closer look at a Mac while buying the ipod and could not be happier with the decisions.
The iPod wasn't my first mac but......
by cadedraco0093 - 11/23/05 10:38 AM In reply to: Will Mac Mini sales follow the ipod success? by tabomaFor me the iPod wasn't the first apple product I have owned. I'm eighteen and I have been using apple computers since I was four. My first was a Perfoma 5200, what a beast that was, I still have it for nostalgia, but it ran on mac os 6 ( I might have grow up with apple but that whole period of time just sucked ass). I was at the tail end of my mac life until the iPod showed up soon after we had got a g4 quicksilver running os 9 (better but not much better then what was out there). At that point I was looking at pcs (yeah I had grow up with a mac and i was goin to pc). I needed to upgrade to mac os X before i could get on of the new iPods in 2002. Now thats when everything changed for me. Now I have got one of the new HR 15 powerbooks w/ 2 GBs ram, 100 GB hard drive. So I would have to agree that the iPod has help sell macs.
on other note, im not too sure bout the intel processors yet, it prolly will help out the under powered systems (Mini, iPook, even Powerbook), and i can't really think that it would hurt the nicer system ( iMac, Power Mac) and that IBM is having a lot of trouble with the g5 and getting it up to the standards Jobs wants ( a 3 GHz processor would be nice) IBM does seem solid right now for the higher grade systems. Although I would have like to see a G5 Powerbook with the last product line upgrades, so that was sort of a bummer for me cause i would have gotten one, but I'm still not sure I would want something that runs in a dell in my mac
-Matthew
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