Thanks for those detailed infos, Paul. Kind Regards,
Pierre Le 1 août 2010 à 21:06, Paul Looney a écrit : > Pierre, > I have a laptop and a Mini. > My customers have hundreds of Minis. > We've only had two Minis fail. Both were early G4s. Both failures were the > Firewire ports on the motherboard. > Everyone really likes these little computers. > An advantage of the Mini over the iMac is that it will cost less over time. > With the iMac, one is replacing everything. With the first Mini the cost will > nearly equal an iMac (especially with a good monitor, good keyboard, and good > mouse). But the next round costs much less (approx. $700 vs approx. $1300 for > another iMac). A third or fourth round gets a new Mini with similar savings > over a third or fourth iMac. > As Apple markets them, a current Mini will probably never be as fast as a > current iMac but you can afford to replace the Mini twice as often. The price > difference will also get you an SSD. > My Mini has an Intel X25-E SSD. What a difference! Startup and application > launch takes 1/10th the time. > On the Mini I use a utility called "SmartSleep". It is a UI for the Terminal > deep sleep command. When I choose "Sleep" now the Mini saves RAM to the SSD > and shuts down (takes a little longer to "sleep" but not much). On start up > (which also takes just a bit longer) everything is loaded back into RAM and > the screen is just as I left it. I think it is the best of "shut down" and > "sleep" - without requiring a battery. > I'd use the Mini instead of a laptop on the road if I could find a 17", 1920 > x 1200 monitor - seems the only one of those is in the MBP 17". > > [By "good keyboard" I mean an $80 Unicomp Model "M" with Mac keycaps (you > have to call and ask for those - should last a couple decades.] > > Paul Looney > > > On Aug 1, 2010, at 10:42 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: > >> True, but, to be honest, the first use of my MBP is devlopment and for this, >> it's realy a cool "pen" tool ;-) >> >> Any tought to share about the new macmini (i went always very happy with all >> the G4 and Intel's ones i got for my self or clients) ? >> >> Kind Regards, Pierre >> >> Le 1 août 2010 à 18:14, Richard Gaskin a écrit : >> >>> Your story is among the reasons why I'm increasingly leaning toward >>> building my own systems. >>> >>> Start with a barebones shell and customize as you like, and you get a solid >>> 24/7 system that'll hold up well, for cheap and with total control over the >>> selection of components that go into it.... >>> >>> -- >>> Richard Gaskin >>> Fourth World >>> Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com >>> Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com >>> revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-revolution mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >>> >> >> -- >> Pierre Sahores >> mobile : (33) 6 03 95 77 70 >> >> www.woooooooords.com >> www.sahores-conseil.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- Pierre Sahores mobile : (33) 6 03 95 77 70 www.woooooooords.com www.sahores-conseil.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
