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cyrnel · 01-12-2005, 08:25 PM

Religion takes all forms.

I haven't been in the Mac world for a few years but I'm enthused about the MiniMac form factor. I've built car and humidor PC's and know it's tough to get down the size of this thing. They're usually based on some ill-performing embedded platform. Look at the VIA boards. 1GHz of slowness with shabby video out & buggy drivers they never get around to finishing. A 1.4GHz PPC runs full OS X with fully developed drivers, rings around a 2GHz PC, and all in a 2" tall 6.5" square. My wish would be to remove the DVD & shorten it another 2/3".

Assuming it runs headless this thing would make a great little colo server.

01-12-2005, 08:25 PM	#30 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	Religion takes all forms. I haven't been in the Mac world for a few years but I'm enthused about the MiniMac form factor. I've built car and humidor PC's and know it's tough to get down the size of this thing. They're usually based on some ill-performing embedded platform. Look at the VIA boards. 1GHz of slowness with shabby video out & buggy drivers they never get around to finishing. A 1.4GHz PPC runs full OS X with fully developed drivers, rings around a 2GHz PC, and all in a 2" tall 6.5" square. My wish would be to remove the DVD & shorten it another 2/3". Assuming it runs headless this thing would make a great little colo server.