The Down Side of the Mac Mini

by Jon 5/22/2008 11:23:00 PM

I've only been blogging in the context of late night fun lately, so bear with me, someday soon I'll get bored by all this and "get back to work" here on my blog.

So I got Vista installed on Boot Camp to get some experience with native Windows on my Mac Mini hardware. My hardware was the best that Apple offered in Mini form (2GHz + 2GB + 160GB). Here are the Vista performance assessment results, needless to say I'm unsurprised yet nonetheless still disappointed by the horrible graphics card on this thing. But it's still a decent little machine for its size.

Numbers are on a scale of 0-to-5.9, not 0-to-10.

Incidentally, a buddy of mine told me that he has a friend who bought an Apple TV and hacked it and it literally became a Mac Mini running Mac OS X. You can get a new Mac this way for ~$250-300!! I'd reconsider this Mac Mini if the AppleTV didn't have its limitations in display output ports.

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Jon Davis Jon Davis (aka "stimpy77") is a software and web developer by day and a software and web enthusiast (geek) by night. He was recently a senior web engineer for the enthusiast division of a major magazine publishing company for nearly two years. He has been a programmer, developer, and consultant for web and Windows software solutions professionally since 1997, with experience ranging from OS and hardware support to DHTML programming to IIS/ASP web apps to Java network programming to Visual Basic applications to C# desktop apps.
 
Software in all forms is also his sole hobby, whether playing PC games or tinkering with programming them. "I was playing Defender on the Commodore 64," he reminisces, "when I decided at the age of 12 or so that I want to be a computer programmer when I grow up."
 
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