Posted by Nick Loadholtes on May 30th, 2005 filed in
Apple,
Linux
Well, I decided to get a Mac mini. Or Mini Mac. I’ve been running it full time at home for about 3 weeks now. So far I think I’m digging it.
Its different than the Mandrade/Linux system I was running before. Not to say that one is better than the other. Just different, just like how
they advise you to think.
Except for the temperature/noise of the hardware. In that area the mini wins hands down. It is sooooo quite and runs sooooo much cooler than the ol’ Athlon. They are at about the same clock speed, but the mini seems so much more responsive. (Ok, the mini’s bus is going faster than the Athlon, and there’s also the whole CISC vs RISC thing, but I’ll get into that more later.)
October 17th, 2005 at 1:13 am
[...] It took me a long time to switch over to using the Mac, but overall I’m glad I did. Everything runs so much smoother and looks (visually) much nicer than just about anything out there. I was talking to someone yesterday about why I resisted switching for so long. It boiled down to two things: The OS (pre OS X) and the cost of the hardware. With OS X and the Mac mini, both of those concerns disappeared. [...]