Apple iProduct

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  1. Sgt Rock

    domfjbrown live & breathe psy-trance

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    Nicely - and what am I saying? My printer's on its last legs and is parallel only anyway!!! Yeah - you're right re OS9 - oops! I've not "played" with the new G5s yet as I don't work in that team any more - d'oh!

    By "forgetting a device" I mean EXACTLY that. My PC conveniently "forgot" it has a USB card reader attached; I had to reinstall it (the damn thing worked the night before, and nothing had changed). Windoze e(X)cruiting (P)ain.
     
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    garyi Wish I had a Large Member

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    Oh right, with the mac in general all USB devices just work. Only specialist stuff like the wacom here needed its own drivers, so no there nothing to re-install, it just does it for you. For instance any media cards in any USB media readers just show up on the desktop as a harddrive
     
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    garyi Wish I had a Large Member

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    The most widly ignored bit of software on the mac is the 'image capture app. Basically if you plug a camera or scanner in 9 times out of 10 you can control it from this app, most usefull for bundled software
     
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    According to the Apple store 'Configure your computer' extra memory comes as DIMMS and costs: std 256Mb, for 512Mb it's +£50 and for 1Gb +£290. I would guess it only has one DIMM slot.

    Base model configured with memory, bigger HDD and keyboard/mouse but no monitor:

    Summary
    • 1GB DDR333 SDRAM - 1 DIMM
    • 80GB Ultra ATA drive
    • Combo Drive
    • Wired Keyboard & Mouse Kits
    • 56k V.92 modem
    • Mac OS X

    Usually dispatched:
    3 - 4 weeks
    Free Shipping
    Price: £593.20
    VAT: £103.81
    Subtotal: £697.01 :eek:

    You can run the OS with 256Mb but I wouldn't want to.
     
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    amazingtrade Mad Madchestoh fan

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    This is how Apple are making the money, you can save a lot of money buy getting the memory fro Crucial with guarenteed compatability with the Mac mini for £133 inc vat for 1GB.

    If it takes standard 2.5" hard drives then you can buy them really cheap. I would be tempted just to buy the higher spec model but buy it with 256MB RAM and upgrade the memory myself. As soon as you start adding options the price creeps up.

    Rather like Mercedes who charged £800 for a radio in the C class in the mid 90s.
     
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    The New OS 'Tiger' is due for release soon. It'll be interesting to see how much Apple charge for that and if the Mac mini owners get a free upgrade or not.
     
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