The Mac has the same quality construction as the iBook and appears to be rugged and pleasant to the eye and without a doubt is smaller. So, how does the new Mac mini stack up to a homemade machine? Lets take a look:Īppearance, Size and Power: Even. Here is the new, and I admit, very cool Mac Mini:ġ.42GHz PowerPC G4, 167mHz Bus speed, 512KB L2 cacheĢ56MB PC2700 (333MHz) DDR SDRAM, expandable to up to 1GBĪTI Radeon 9200 with 32MB DDR video memory AGP 4xīuilt-in 10/100BASE-T Ethernet and 56K V.92 modem
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Mandrake Linux 10.1 Download Edition $0 or Windows XP Home Edition SP2 $150 Sony 52x32x52 Internal IDE CD-RW / 16x DVD-ROM Combo Drive $60 Western Digital Caviar SE 80GB, 7200RPM, Internal SATA Hard Drive $75
PNY 256MB PC133 SDRAM DIMM 168pin Memory Module $65 Xtasy/ATI Radeon 9200SE Video Card, 8x AGP, 128MB DDR w/VGA, DVI- I and TV/S-Video $74 SY-P4VGM v1.0 micro-ATX Motherboard, Socket 478 for Intel Celeron Processors (includes 4 USB 2.0 ports, 1 1394/Firewire 400 port, 10/100 Ethernet, Compact Flash/SD reader, on-board sound w/audio in, out, mic with included 8-in-1 card reader) $65 Intel Celeron 2.6gHz chip, 400mHz Bus speed, 128KB L2 cache $99.00 This is my present setup at home as well as the setup I have built for a few folks including “Mom and Pop” newbie users: I wanted to use a system I have built for day-to-day users who want what the Mac Mini market is hoping capture, namely internet and “digital lifestyle”(how I hate that term) markets.
How does the new Mac Mini stack up to a homemade box? I didn’t want to do the comparison to a Dell or a Gateway/eMachine bargain deal. I decided the best way to see was to compare the Mini to my primary box, a similar system in specifications and price. The release of the Mac Mini at MacWorld really made me wonder if Apple made good move in jumping into the low range market. I love different things about each platform and loathe just as much as I like about all three. I have been an omni-platform user, Windows, OS X and Linux user for some time now.
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