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12-01-2005, 06:57 AM
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Location: QLD
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Looks very stylish for switchers-it's good that has a G4 (a G5 wouldn't fit due to the size of the enclosure).
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12-01-2005, 06:57 AM
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Location: Melbourne
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Are those prices confirmed for AUS?
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12-01-2005, 07:00 AM
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Location: Sydney
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I am trying to see if a service guide has been released for it yet on the apple service manuals area for resellers. I will chase this up today and confirm if the site has one available yet. I suspect not, but worth a look.
I want to see more internals.
As for price of notebook drives. They have fallen. You can buy 60gb 4200rpm drives for like $171 or so. But when you price a few key parts and software, it makes the machine look extremely good value.
It's an extremely good machine. Has everything one could need for a basic first time user. Has ethernet, modem connection etc. I could see myself recommending this to some people.
I must say it looks nice when partnered with a nice big LCD. Think an Apple LCD purchase might be on the cards in the next few years.
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12-01-2005, 07:12 AM
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Location: Adelaide
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I can see one of these babies becoming a lounge room multimedia centre very quickly.
With composite video out for your TV and the fact that it doesnt look much bigger than a regular DVD player, all you need to add is some blue tooth peripherals to replace the conventional remote and your away.
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12-01-2005, 07:13 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Somewhere Slaying Vampires
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to get an idea of the value lets look at the prices for some of the components.
1.25ghz cpu-$300+ for an upgrade
256 ram-$50
40gb laptop drive-$130
slot load combo-$150
You have $630 there
add in the motherboard or logic board,graphics,expansion ports and you have a cheap system
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12-01-2005, 07:23 AM
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Group: Banned Users
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I wonder if I could plug one of these into my iBook and use it kind of like an external hard drive?
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12-01-2005, 07:25 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Somewhere Slaying Vampires
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well yeah but why?
why spend $800 on a 40gb drive
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12-01-2005, 07:26 AM
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Group: Regulars
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Now all we need is a MythTV port!
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12-01-2005, 07:26 AM
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Group: Regulars
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Slightly off topic, but are there any OSX-compatible USB2.0 HDTV tuners on the market? How cool would it be to pair one up with a Mac Mini? Ultimate HTPC . . . I mean, HTMac!!!  |
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12-01-2005, 07:28 AM
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Location: Somewhere Slaying Vampires
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not any usb 2.0 tuners i know of but elgato make a hdtv firewire tuner
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12-01-2005, 07:29 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
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Instantly I see these useful for:
* Home Theatre PCs. DVD/DivX/emulators/games on the big screen.
* Mobile projector display unit. And cheaper than a laptop too.
* Cluster nodes: combine 10 of these with the Apple Development stuff and distcc, and you've got yourself a pretty tight little compile-cluster for developers that will rip through code nice and quick. Likewise, combine a dozen of these with Xgrid and you've go one hell of a cheap mini-cluster, render farm, or whatever it is you need.
Excellent work Apple for releasing "the Cube 2.0", but this time making it affordable!
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12-01-2005, 07:33 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by aaron_meredith@Jan 12 2005, 06:57 AM
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12-01-2005, 07:36 AM
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In hindsight, Apple's price shift on displays, keyboard and mice was very timely.
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12-01-2005, 07:45 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Behind you
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good call Devski.
I like the machine.
its what the cube should have been.
pipsqeek
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12-01-2005, 07:54 AM
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Nice. I'm pretty sure this will get me to buy a Mac for the first, given that cost has been the thing that has always held me back.
Though (as with other recent Apple releases) I ask, why use THAT video chip? Surely these days a ATI 9600 chip wouldn't add much more to the cost than the 9200.
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