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The Mac Mini PBX is Discovered
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Mac mini Notes (Yet Again)
Windows XP On A Mac mini
The Mac Mini PBX is Discovered
voxilla.com's Marcelo Rodriguez says:
I hate writing about something that we sell through the Voxilla Store, but news is news (and no-news is no-news) and our friend Andy Abramson gave us the opening.
A German company, 4S newcom, is pitching an IP PBX that is loaded on an Apple iPod Shuffle (news?) and runs on a Mac Mini (no-news).
The system, called iBlue, will begin shipping on November 6th, to coincide with the VON Europe conference in Berlin.
An entry level system will be priced at 2,999 Euros (about US$3,750) and consists of a Mac Mini (version not disclosed), an iPod Shuffle, and five snom300 IP telephones. The low-end offering licenses up to 250 users and allows 30 concurrent calls......
The set-up was definitely a big hit at the booth. Quite a few people were startled to see a full-fledged communications server on such a small (and Mac-elegant) footprint.
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http://voxilla.com/soapvox/marcelo-rodriguez/the-mac-mini-pbx-is-discovered-846.html
Torvalds Takes Bite Of Mac mini
ZDNet Australia's Renai LeMay says:
Linus Torvalds has picked up one of Apple's new Intel-based Mac minis to play with, but the Linux creator still prefers Apple's old PowerPC architecture for his primary desktop machine.
"I'm actually still running a G5, but I also have a Mac mini," Torvalds revealed today in an e-mail to ZDNet Australia.
The Linux creator has been running an Apple G5 since at least March 2005, switching from a normal x86-based desktop sometime before that. At that stage he attributed the switch to the importance of IBM's Power architecture as well as a desire to try a new system.
Since then, however, Apple has stopped using PowerPC chips, bringing its machines into line with other vendors by adopting Intel's new x86 multiple-core CPUs.
While Torvalds said he liked the aesthetics of the mini, he still had concerns about Apple's hardware, so the Intel machine remains more of a plaything than anything else.
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Mac mini Notes (Yet Again)
Railhead Design says:
I am really loving the Mac mini I bought for the office, so I spent some time yesterday upgrading its memory.
I had heard - we've all heard - what a pain in the butt it is to open up a Mac mini, and that it's best for Apple to do memory installs. This is due, in part, to the potential you have to really scratch up the bottom of the cover.
Throwing caution to the wind, and being confident in my disassembly capabilities, I ordered to 1GB RAM modules, and got to work on opening the little clam. Most tutorials say a small putty knife is “required,� but I didn't have one at the office, and I'm too impatient so I didn't feel like going to get one. Thus, I settled for using an old credit card and a swiss army knife-like tool.
You can check it out at:
http://www.railheaddesign.com/
Windows XP On A Mac mini
Railhead Design says:
I just wanted to post a quick blurb and say how impressed I am with Parallels Desktop. One of the first things I did after getting OS X running on my mini was to install Windows XP. I would have preferred to use an Apple-based solution, but I don’t care for the reboot scenario. So Parallels Desktop it was.
What a sweet program!
Read more at:
http://www.railheaddesign.com/
Charles W. Moore
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