Going by memory: it's _not_ limited to Apple monitors; comes with 256 meg RAM and a 40 gig HD, upgradeable on purchase to 1.5 gig and 80 gig; airport and blue tooth are optional add-ons at purchase; base model is a 1.25 mhz G4 with the 40 gig HD, better model is a 1.42 mhz G4 and an 80 gig HD for an extra hundred bucks; there's a superdirve option; come with OSX.3.* installed; use any usb keyboard and mouse; has two usb-2 ports and 1 firewire 400 port; ethernet (I forget the numbers); sound out; other things I've forgotten most likely; and it's about the size of a cigar box.
If reliability is Apple standard and the performance matches the specs (no shortcut bottlenecks in the system like Amerillo took) then it's the most impressive unit since the original 128, of which I still have two. Bill Holt > From: Alex Whitman <alylex at mac.com> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:59:52 -0500 > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: Macworld > > I agree, the mini-Mac is awesome sounding. Questions that probably no > one has answers to yet: 1) Can you use any monitor, or do you have to > buy an Apple display? 2) Will it include an Airport card? (I'm guessing > not) 3) What is Apple's usual timeframe for being able to upgrade the > operating system for free when the next version comes out? In other > words, if you buy a new computer and then soon thereafter they release > 10.4, what is the usual cut-off date for a free upgrade? And 4) when > will local stores have demo models for us to drool on? > > I'm already talking my parents into this -- they are the only MS > hold-outs in the entire family. > > Alex Whitman > > >> From: "Rex Baldazo" <Rex.Baldazo at cnet.com> >>> >>> Looks like essentially all the pre-Macworld rumours are true--a >>> sub-$500 iMac, a flash iPod, and new productivity app bundle called >> iWorks: >>> >>> http://news.com.com/2100-7354_3-5532008.html > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
