Linked by Brian "eXtra heavy" Czarski on Wed 19th Jan 2005 17:41 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems I have been an omni-platform user, Windows, OS X and Linux user for some time now. I love different things about each platform and loathe just as much as I like about all three. 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 decided the best way to see was to compare the Mini to my primary box, a similar system in specifications and price.
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celeron 2.6??
by brian on Wed 19th Jan 2005 19:16 UTC

Interesting choice, putting a celeron system together.
Or was the PC133 SDRAM included a mistake?

He'd almost be better off buying an Chaintech NF2 board with an XP2600+, but that would not include a DVI port. But the price would drop substantially on the whole system, except that he'd have to buy 2 256MB sticks. But I think a reasonable system nowadays should have 512MB on it anyways.

The mac mini is interesting but it isn't anything groundbreaking. Caters to the current MAC fans but I'm not sure if it will have much widespread appeal. Perhaps it might make mini itx systems more popular and therefore cheaper.