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Old 09-03-2006, 03:02 PM
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Wow. After the fiasco with the first Mac mini and the dealer not receiving stock for almost 3 months, my CTO Mac mini arrived in under two weeks.
Ordered on the release day, 1st March and delivered on the 9th.

CTO because I bumped memory to 1GB and disk to 100GB, since
everything else is included.

Does anyone know if the rumors are true about the bigger disks being faster ?

Will report back tonight once I get it home and connected.
Can you use a BT keyboard and mouse out the box ?
Or do you still need a USB keyboard and mouse to setup ?
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Old 09-03-2006, 04:01 PM
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Old 09-03-2006, 04:03 PM
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Originally posted by larfinboy@Mar 9 2006, 03:02 PM
Can you use a BT keyboard and mouse out the box ?
Or do you still need a USB keyboard and mouse to setup ?
Nah you can use bt mouse/keyboard out of the box. OSX realises it has no USB devices and then suggestions doing a scan for bt devices so set them on and ready to discover

Very good how it does this too, so no need for a USB keyboard to setup bluetooth gear
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Old 09-03-2006, 08:20 PM
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Well the machine is being setup at the moment.
The drive is a Seagate ST9100824AS.
This is also known as Momentus 5400.2, so it looks
like the rumor about faster drives is not true, unless its
referring to the 120GB drive.
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Old 09-03-2006, 08:29 PM
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its nice, but does it bother anyone that upgraded it to the same stats as a imac g5, it ends up very close to it?

i was surprised that the new ones started at $999... no matter which way you put it its not really money for value
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Old 09-03-2006, 08:36 PM
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its nice, but does it bother anyone that upgraded it to the same stats as a imac g5, it ends up very close to it?
i doubt apple consider it an alterntive to iMacs.
I dont and never will as it will never be as fast as any iMac
But its still great value even at $999
The duo model will match any sub 2Ghz dual g5 in raw cpu power and a dual 2GHz G5 plus screen costs alot more then a mini + screen
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