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ColorWare Colors Your Intel Mac mini World
Apple Dumps Old G4 Mac minis at Costco
Benchmarking XP on a Mac mini
Aperture on a Mac mini Intel
Mac-ification Of The Digital Domicile At Last
Review: Mac Mini Hacks & Mods for Dummies
Mac mini (early 2006) Firmware Update 1.0.1
ColorWare Colors Your Intel Mac mini World
If you want to add some color to your Mac mini experience, ColorWare will be happy to give your mini a color makeover, or to sell you a brand new Intel mini in your choice from their selection of custom mini shades.
Mac mini 1.5GHz Intel Core Solo
1.5GHz Intel Core Solo
512MB of memory
60GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger"
Ships in approximately 10 Business Days
$699
Mac mini 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo
1.66GHz Intel Core Duo
512MB of memory
80GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
SuperDrive 8x (DVD+R DL/DVD+-RW/CD-RW)
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger"
Ships in approximately 10 Business Days
$899
For more information, visit:
http://www.colorwarepc.com/products/select_macmini.aspx#Tab
Apple Dumps Old G4 Mac minis at Costco
siliconvalleysleuth.com reports:
Apple is getting rid of its old G4 powered Mac Mini computers at Costco, the store where America buys its cat food and pallets of toilet paper at steep discounts.
The $699 price tag gets consumers a 512Mb Mac Mini with a 80Gb hard drive, as well as a wireless keyboard and mouse, which originally weren't included with the Mac Mini. It also comes with a three year warranty, where the Apple stores only offers 90 days.
For the full report visit here.
http://www.siliconvalleysleuth.com/2006/04/apple_dumps_g4_.html
Benchmarking XP on a Mac mini
Macworld's James Galbraith reports:
When I wrote a recent article comparing WorldBench 5 scores of Intel-based Macs to some similarly configured PCs, I couldn’t list results for the Mac mini Core Duo. PC World's WorldBench 5 requires three complete runs before returning final scores and the mini had some trouble finishing the tests involving Windows Media Encoder 9. It took a few additional trials, but the results are now in and posted below.
Looking at the specifications for Apple’s slim desktop, it’s no surprise that the Mac mini struggled to keep up with the other dual-core systems we matched it against. The mini runs on a 1.66GHz Core Duo processors; all the other machines in our tests featured 2GHz and higher processors. The mini did manage to squeak by the HP Pavilion and its 2GHz Athlon 64X2 dual-core processor on two of the five individual tests listed in the chart—the Photoshop and the Multitasking tests. For more information on WorldBench, including results from other PCs, visit PCWorld.com.
You can check it out here.
Aperture on a Mac mini Intel
HardMac's Lionel reports:
One of our readers, Pixel, has successfully installed and used Aperture 1.1 on his Mac mini Intel, officially not supported. Hereafter is the procedure.....
Of course, one should not expect miracles, but it might allow Mac mini Intel users to enjoy Aperture for some digital photo editing.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2006-04-17/#5371
Mac-ification Of The Digital Domicile At Last
Mini Ture_MacJournal's Darryl says:
Care, safety, security and comfort are the hot drivers of the new and emerging technology as well as requirements from the social aspect of the home user. The social aspect is typified in classifications of the key societal identities of aged, singles, families and challenged home dwellers. iHome heart and Hearth (soul) has not changed it is still a philosophically socially relevant aspect of hearth and life style but the centration of the home atypically has shifted with new 'you can have it all' Mac digital technology in the Living room with music, photo's and multi media generally piped right throughout the home.
An iHearth Milestone - Mac mini (intel) headless and Duo
http://dbatrium.blogspot.com/2006/04/ihearth-milestone-mac-mini-intel.html
iHearth Video Clips and Picture Presentations - For the iPod Video
http://dbatrium.blogspot.com/2006/04/ihearth-video-clips-and-picture.html
The Interactive Digital Mac Home Mac Mini + iPod Ready
http://dbatrium.blogspot.com/2006/04/interactive-digital-mac-home-mac-mini.html
Review: Mac Mini Hacks & Mods for Dummies
SpyMac's David Guenther reports:
The Dummies series has long been the foremost reference for the uninitiated ranging in topics from European travel to quitting smoking.
Author John Rizzo offers an extensive guide to tricking out the mini and making it even more versatile than Apple intended when it was released only a month and half ago......
Mac mini Hacks and Mods for Dummies is the latest in this series to hit the shelves.
Author John Rizzo offers an extensive guide to tricking out the mini and making it even more versatile than Apple intended when it was released only a month and half ago.
Rizzo gives basic mod ideas such as making the mini portable, but the bulk of the book offers more advanced mods and hacks like turning your mini into a kitchen appliance controller or creating a mini home theatre.
For the full review visit here:
http://www.spymac.com/news/article.php?contentid=4516
Mac mini (early 2006) Firmware Update 1.0.1
This update is for Mac Mini computers with Intel processors only. It now runs on localized systems that use languages that read right to left.
For more information, please visit this website:
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n303364
Charles W. Moore
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