Apple-flavoured kool-aid
I bought some Apple stock today at $65ish. I'm expecting the iSteve to do something crazy to celebrate the company's 30th anniversary in a few weeks.
In the mean time, I want to replace my Powerbook because I'm tired of constant disk swapping due to Spotlight and I don't really want to sink any more money into a gigabyte stick of memory for it. Based on the fact that I've moved my Powerbook out of the house exactly once since I moved down here I think that I could make do with a desktop machine. I don't mind using Ubuntu at work but I don't want the hassle of trying to get Linux to synchronize with my Blackberry or iPod Shuffle. And I find Windows too annoying in a myriad of ways to even consider it. So my new desktop will have to be a Mac. But getting an iMac would waste my lovely 24 inch LCD display. That leaves the Mac Mini.
Aside from having lousy 3D performance the reviews seem to be quite positive about the Mini, especially when outfitted with the Core Duo and 2 gigs of RAM. And since I don't really play 3D games it should be just fine for me. Even though Photoshop hasn't been ported to the x86 yet it will run under Rosetta and I won't notice a performance issue because I only use it for colour correction and JPEG compression, neither of which use Altivec heavily. In fact, since my biggest beef right now is the lack of memory, moving to a system with 4 times as much RAM should be a nice change.
In the mean time, I want to replace my Powerbook because I'm tired of constant disk swapping due to Spotlight and I don't really want to sink any more money into a gigabyte stick of memory for it. Based on the fact that I've moved my Powerbook out of the house exactly once since I moved down here I think that I could make do with a desktop machine. I don't mind using Ubuntu at work but I don't want the hassle of trying to get Linux to synchronize with my Blackberry or iPod Shuffle. And I find Windows too annoying in a myriad of ways to even consider it. So my new desktop will have to be a Mac. But getting an iMac would waste my lovely 24 inch LCD display. That leaves the Mac Mini.
Aside from having lousy 3D performance the reviews seem to be quite positive about the Mini, especially when outfitted with the Core Duo and 2 gigs of RAM. And since I don't really play 3D games it should be just fine for me. Even though Photoshop hasn't been ported to the x86 yet it will run under Rosetta and I won't notice a performance issue because I only use it for colour correction and JPEG compression, neither of which use Altivec heavily. In fact, since my biggest beef right now is the lack of memory, moving to a system with 4 times as much RAM should be a nice change.