On 3/3/05 2:55 pm, "Marcus Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (in part):
> The Mini I ordered was the 1.42Ghz, 80G hard drive, with the Bluetooth and > Airport Extreme kit fitted, and the stock 256M of RAM. Compared to my 800Mhz > G3 iBook it's incredibly snappy - applications launch with a single bounce, > and > even with a couple of applications open at a time, e.g. Mail, Safari, iCal, it > all runs really quickly, with no signs of any significant swapping to disk. > > I've fired up Xcode and looked at a couple of projects on it, and again it's > not > shown any signs of struggling. I'm sure with 512M or more of memory it would > fly, but its real role is to be a media server, so I'm not upgrading mine. Thanks for your account of the Mini so far Marcus, good to hear a real user's view as well...it will be interesting to hear if your initial impression changes with time or gets better (lets hope the latter!) Mind me asking if that is a subjective judgement of the RAM or if you have looked at numbers to back that up? The reason I ask is that my PB (1.33 GHz, 80 GB, 512 MB) 'seems' to run fine without much swapping and not much noticeable slow down but when I check the stats with (for example) activity monitor I can see that 512 MB is far too little for even the lighter stuff I do...I get around 17k to 20k page outs after a few days light use and the free memory is almost always running with less than 30 MB if more than a few apps are open at the same time...Might be good to check before using it as a server... Cheers, Richard -- -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
