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General => General discussion => Topic started by: bobbarley on 15 March 2012, 00:12
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Been toying around with the idea for a little while now. Fancied trying a Mac for a while, but don't want to fork out £500+ to see how much I'm going to like it. Looked at the new Mac Mini's, but was getting very seduced by the iMac.
Made an offer for £240 on eBay for a nice last generation Mac Mini and it got accepted :smiley:
1.83GHz Core 2 Duo Processor
2GB RAM
250GB Hard Drive
Lion installed and a copy on disc
For the money I'm pretty happy with that. Can't wait to have a play with it.
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Been toying around with the idea for a little while now. Fancied trying a Mac for a while, but don't want to fork out £500+ to see how much I'm going to like it. Looked at the new Mac Mini's, but was getting very seduced by the iMac.
Made an offer for £240 on eBay for a nice last generation Mac Mini and it got accepted :smiley:
1.83GHz Core 2 Duo Processor
2GB RAM
250GB Hard Drive
Lion installed and a copy on disc
For the money I'm pretty happy with that. Can't wait to have a play with it.
Not bad, most Mac Mini's get used as media centres but no reason why you can't run it as your desk top
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Now you need a really large screen, otherwise it's just not as good, imo.
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Now you need a really large screen, otherwise it's just not as good, imo.
52" LCD tv should do the trick :grin:
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It's going in to my 40" Samsung :smiley:
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It's going in to my 40" Samsung :smiley:
That will do nicely :) I nearly bought a Mac mini couple years ago but went for apple tv's in the end as I already have an iMac.
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Going to use the Mini as a media centre mainly. Plan to install Plex and Airmouse so I can watch movies etc, and control the machine from my iPhone.
I think the previous owner might have upgraded the Mini a bit, or bought it well spec'd, I'm going to add a NAS drive to my network for extra storage though, and also add one or two USB hard drives to the Mini. Plan to have it all tucked away somewhere out of sight near the television.
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imac is brilliant & macbook very quick esp i7 chip , once you'v had mac you wont go back also mbp WITH I5 brilliant .
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I think I'm already going to miss my PC for gaming :grin:
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I used Plex on my iMac & apple tvs is a nice interface to have. I have stopped using it now since they sorted out the atv flash media player on the apple tv.
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On the Mac now. First impressions... AWESOME :smiley:
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Well Lion is about to come off and be replaced by Snow Leopard!
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Which should then be replaced by Windoze :wink:
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This Mac ain't powerful enough to run Lion. Lion needs 2GB minimum, plus preferably an i3 or better processor. Once I've got two or more applications open with Lion the machine is really struggling, I get messages saying the machine is sluggish to respond!
Downgrading one OS down should hopefully make a difference. The spec's for SL are only a dual core CPU and 1GB RAM :smiley:
I want to put W7 on, but again I don't think the machine will handle it. I might try popping Windows XP onto it?
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It'll cope with W7 32bit, W7 is pretty good on resources and ran on my now 6 year old PC with 1Gb ram well enough, it comes with Media centre which is good, get a USB DVR stick if you want to record, otherwise play your normal media through it :smiley:
If you don't like Media centre, there is XBMC or Boxee to play with too, not experimented with other media centres.
Just throwing some of the media centre goodness options out there for you to have a play and find one which suits you :smiley:
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If you want windows buy a windows machine :lipsrsealed: I'm sure it will be fine with snow leopard :cool:
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Snow Leopard is doing very nicely, I've nearly half a gig of extra memory to play with now. When I switch applications they're actually instant. I hate to downgrade, but in this instance it was a necessity.
I've got one or two applications that aren't compatible with Mac, is there any way I can install them in OS X without having to dual boot?
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Parallels or Virtual box to run a virtual Windows machine, but expect a slow down when running it (especially with Parallels).
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Snow Leopard is doing very nicely, I've nearly half a gig of extra memory to play with now. When I switch applications they're actually instant. I hate to downgrade, but in this instance it was a necessity.
I've got one or two applications that aren't compatible with Mac, is there any way I can install them in OS X without having to dual boot?
To be honest I have now come to the conclusion I preferred snow leopard but going to up my ram to 8 or possibly 16 gb hopefully that will stop any annoying lag on Lion
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Wish I could mate, this machine is already maxed out at 2GB though. My PC has 8GB!!
Jay, I just tried Virtual Box and when booting the Windows disc I get unexpected errors and it closes down. Might give Parallels a try instead.
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Must be an old one then as the newer ones 2010 onwards can be upped to 8gb? Even the 09 ones can go up to 4gb
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It's Mid 2007.
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yep defo stuck with 2gb, sorry