Not Got a Mac Yet?
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| If you're currently a PC user and think it might be nice to have a Mac for your Mac ports, perhaps this is what you need. http://www.apple.com/macmini/ Just add a KVM, put it on the desk next to the PC and off you go. |
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| clever isn't it? Whats needed now is a special device to switch between monitor and mouse/keyboard. This means at a flick of a switch you can go between pc and mac. etc. |
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| Beat you to it ;) http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=42618 oh, and mephitis... Whats needed now is a special device to switch between monitor and mouse/keyboard Go google for "KVM" ;) |
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| This means at a flick of a switch you can go between pc and mac. etc. I've seen some KVM's that don't even need that, but can be controlled by some keyboard shortcuts, like CTRL-ALT-SHIFT to switch from one system to the other. |
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| I never thought I'd be saying this but I just ordered a Mac. =) This is perferct, tiny footprint and more than enough power for what I need. |
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| is the minimac power enough for bmax ? is somebody know this (please real tests) please write here |
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| It's got higher specs than my iBook and the iBook runs everything just fine. |
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| I would say the minimac definately has enough power to run BlitzMax programs well. It has a slightly faster CPU than our iMac which is plenty capable of throwing around over 1000 128x128 sprites in high resolution at a smooth framerate. |
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| The Mini Mac 1.25 is roughly equivalent to a 1.8-2GHz P4 or something like that. The 32MB Radeon 9200 card is more than powerful enough too. It'd be able to run Half Life 2 well enough if, er, Half Life 2 was out for the Mac. That's a lot of bang for your buck :) |
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| Exactly. The "bang for your buck" factor made it irresistable to me. |
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| may be i'm going to buy a g4 or g5 from eBay |
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| Don't think it's that fast when you consider a 2Ghz G5 is roughly the same speed as a athlon64 2GHz (true speed not marked up speed). G5 and athlon64 are not that much faster than a 3ghz P4 about 50% faster at the same clock speed. Still way better than my current system. Shame none of the essential software I need is avaliable for Mac except Photoshop. |
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