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Barrikady
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« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2005, 10:29:41 AM » |
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Internal Pictures of the Mac Mini
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TheEagleCD
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« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2005, 10:41:12 AM » |
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very nice link. thanks Barrikady! looking at these photos I really want one of those babies - it's a gorgeous system...  |
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Lord Raiden
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« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2005, 10:42:47 AM » |
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Wow, TheEagleCD was right. Mac only used a mini-itx board in their mac mini. Kinda cool, but disappointing too. I kinda wanted to see something revelutionary from them. Oh well, it's still really, really neat. Now if I can just find a place to stick a 3rd monitor I know that I'll easily be able to find a home for the new mini-system. ^_^
EDIT: Speaking of TheEagleCD, he beat me to posting by a few seconds. o_0
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gwimby
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« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2005, 01:25:41 PM » |
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Thank you for the link!!!!
So I'm not seeing any ram soldered to the board, I was
guessing there would be since its so closely related to the ibook
logicboard. Of course, looking at that PCB they may not have had
room for it!
Now I can't wait to see pics of a production unit being dis-assembled so
we can see how that jiggsaw puzzle was put together.
LR - not to get OT, but what more were you expecting? Just curious.
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MTP
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« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2005, 01:44:49 PM » |
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nice pictures, great link.
Damn just makes me want to order mine right away.
LR - Its an entire computer in a 6x6x2 inch box and you are saying its not revolutionary?
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scuba_steve
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« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2005, 02:04:50 PM » |
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Originally posted by: MTP
nice pictures, great link.
Damn just makes me want to order mine right away.
LR - Its an entire computer in a 6x6x2 inch box and you are saying its not revolutionary?
Just curious, but how do you think that achievement differs from the development of a laptop...minus the screen, battery, PCMCIA slots, etc.? |
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Lord Raiden
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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2005, 02:07:54 PM » |
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Yeah, it's just a mini-itx system done apple style.
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mrBEE
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« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2005, 06:01:01 PM » |
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I'm gonna put one in my Shuttle...
Really neat design, great(est) office pc. Just how they fit a PSU and cooling in there I do not know.
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gwimby
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« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2005, 07:32:31 PM » |
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mrBEE:
The PSU is an external brick, like a laptop.
As far as cooling goes, the G4 is a fairly cool running processor at this point -
its been around so long that its very refined.
LR - Were you expectig something different?
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mrBEE
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« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2005, 07:43:02 PM » |
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But still, this is like really small... Haven't used a Mac for a while, so I wonder how much I like it.
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« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2005, 07:48:44 PM » |
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Its definitally darned small. Can't wait to see how you like it.
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« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2005, 10:46:59 PM » |
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Originally posted by: sgingras
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Originally posted by: MTP
nice pictures, great link.
Damn just makes me want to order mine right away.
LR - Its an entire computer in a 6x6x2 inch box and you are saying its not revolutionary?
Just curious, but how do you think that achievement differs from the development of a laptop...minus the screen, battery, PCMCIA slots, etc.?
Humm.....you stated it in your response. no screen, no battery, and therefore smaller than a laptop but lets see....... half considering the smallest laptop is 12" and this is 6.5". No they did not reinvent the wheel which seems to be needed by some people to recognize this as an acheivement for Apple. |
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Fontaine
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« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2005, 06:21:49 AM » |
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I just see it now but the design from the mac mini is the same as the (old) harddisk icon on mac OS.
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Lord Raiden
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« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2005, 09:17:42 AM » |
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LR - Were you expectig something different?
Nope, not really.  |
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« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2005, 02:19:14 PM » |
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Yeah, it's just a mini-itx system done apple style.
Most mini-ITX mobos give you a PCI slot. |
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TheEagleCD
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« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2005, 09:11:30 PM » |
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Originally posted by: CrystalCowboy
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Originally posted by: Lord Raiden
Yeah, it's just a mini-itx system done apple style.
Most mini-ITX mobos give you a PCI slot.
yeah, and ALL Mini-ITX boards are 17*17cm so putting it in a 16.51cm box would be kind of hard (I guess that's what you call "cutting a corner", right?  ). And I'm sure that someone is gonna hack up the Mac mini and put a Nano-ITX (12*12cm) system in there! Only 5 more "Mac mini" related threads to read and post in... (and that's only after 48h of limited internet access!) TheEagleCD |
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« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2005, 01:57:12 AM » |
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There is definitely a lot of thoughts for this thing going through my head, many of which involve my car.
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« Reply #18 on: January 18, 2005, 03:33:31 AM » |
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These pictures do nothing to help me decide whether or not I should make the move ^^;; . They only serve to make me drool some more...
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« Reply #19 on: January 18, 2005, 01:30:59 PM » |
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Originally posted by: Lord Raiden
Wow, TheEagleCD was right. Mac only used a mini-itx board in their mac mini. Kinda cool, but disappointing too. I kinda wanted to see something revelutionary from them.
So what? What should they have done? Let's see if you can think of something revolutionary that is realistic and economically viable. In my opinion, Apple is testing the market. If the Mac Mini is a success, they could make a second version that is even smaller by integrating more functionalities in a single chip like Intel wanted to do some years ago. It wouldn't make sense to spend millions of dollars on R&D for something quite risky. They did it in the past and I am pretty sure they have learned from their mistakes. You sound like someone that believe that Apple doesn't do anything revolutionary... something that is completely false. |
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« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2005, 03:29:23 PM » |
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its is not a mini-itx board its actually smaller.
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« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2005, 09:01:38 PM » |
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It doesn't really matter. What matters is how good the end product is... and I think it's great. I don't really like its performance (will probably get a PowerMac before a Mac Mini) but I still find amazing to put up so much power in a little box. Quite a great example of good engineering.
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« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2005, 09:56:45 PM » |
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@Wrawrat: While the Mac mini looks great I'm not sure I'm all that impressed with the engineering. It's really not that hard to do when you have such a controlled hardware environment as Apple does.
People have built very small Mini-ITX systems for some time now. A readily available Casetronic Travla C134 (17cm x 51cm x 254cm) isn't all that much bigger than the Mac mini (16cm x 16cm x 5cm). Factor-in that the extra depth mostly goes to the internal DC-DC adapter. By using a PWxx power solution from mini-box.com you'd more or less be able to get rid of most of that difference. So with technology that has been available to end-users for more than a year you can get pretty darn close to the Mac mini's size and feature set. Of course it wouldn't look cool and nice if you'd do it yourself but paying a bunch of designers and spending some serious cash on high quality engineering should get you ahead of what someone can do in his garage, right?
To me what's most interesting about the Mac mini is that a company actually went that far and decided to order their engineers to build such a small system for the mass market!
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« Reply #23 on: January 19, 2005, 05:01:29 AM » |
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It was a small step. The Imac also is very small and basicly the same as the Mac Mini except for the monitor.
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