New Apple G4 £318.785 gets you 1.42 ghz New ipod for £69

jamief · Post by **jamief** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:43 pm

hoffman2k wrote:Lol Adam, they released it seconds ago. And already your on the task of dismanteling it. Let me know how it scores on the test

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jamief · Post by **jamief** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:44 pm

AdamJay wrote:
hoffman2k wrote:Lol Adam, they released it seconds ago. And already your on the task of dismanteling it. Let me know how it scores on the test
what can i say hehe
it looks like Timbuktu Pro will allow remote control between Macs and PCs and i've heard its relatively snappy (i.e. it aint Virtual PC). Researching if its possible to use it via firewire to get 4x the bandwidth versus Ethernet.

what this could do is allow you to basically run OSX on a PC - in a roundabout way. Using the PC to control the MacMini staying in OSX for Live.. and using a Mac/cross-platform equivalent to FX Teleport to harness the PC's power, but never really having to use Windows.

its an interesting concept, and it would take alot of tweaking. but where there's a will there's a way. I'll see if i can't test the concept with my g/f's ibook later on in the week.

Let us know how it goes

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:01 pm

jamief wrote:
AdamJay wrote:
hoffman2k wrote:Lol Adam, they released it seconds ago. And already your on the task of dismanteling it. Let me know how it scores on the test
what can i say hehe
it looks like Timbuktu Pro will allow remote control between Macs and PCs and i've heard its relatively snappy (i.e. it aint Virtual PC). Researching if its possible to use it via firewire to get 4x the bandwidth versus Ethernet.

what this could do is allow you to basically run OSX on a PC - in a roundabout way. Using the PC to control the MacMini staying in OSX for Live.. and using a Mac/cross-platform equivalent to FX Teleport to harness the PC's power, but never really having to use Windows.

its an interesting concept, and it would take alot of tweaking. but where there's a will there's a way. I'll see if i can't test the concept with my g/f's ibook later on in the week.
Let us know how it goes

BEEN THERE DONE THAT

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:04 pm

i'm pretty sure these half laptop hard drives in them
we'll have to wait and see as the only detail they've released is "Ultra Ata HD" which is 9 times out of 10 - a laptop term.

if its 4200rpm , if will fill like this thing is crawling to alot of PC users, and i'm sure thats NOT what they want to do. Get them to switch then slow them to a crawl. If it has a 5400rpm HD though, it will definitely "feel" up to snuff.

about the DSP thing...
looks like "WormHole" is the only cross-platform VST over Lan app i can find.
and Timbuktu Pro 7 seems to be the best .
I'll try to procure demo versions of each and test it with a G4 800mhz ibook and my Athlon 64 3700 notebook.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:20 pm

AdamJay wrote:2 x 6.5 x 6.5"

but the PSU is 1.5 x 3 x 6.5 lol

pretty cool stuff though.
i'm researching the possibility of controlling it KVM style with another laptop.
turn it into an external DSP, would be great for powerbook users. almost like a dual processor. but still dunno if its possible.

google for software KVM ... i was dragging my mouse from my mac to my pc without a hitch!

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:35 pm

the difficult thing is being able to see the MiniMac's graphical display on the PC laptop, requiring a little more than just a KVM.

the idea is not having to hook up a monitor to the minimac, but use the pc laptop screen to see the graphical display. =\

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:36 pm

oh
try VNC

there's a million free VNC clients out there..

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:43 pm

or this

Bosco
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/33857

jamief · Post by **jamief** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:44 pm

sweetjesus wrote:
jamief wrote:
AdamJay wrote: what can i say hehe
it looks like Timbuktu Pro will allow remote control between Macs and PCs and i've heard its relatively snappy (i.e. it aint Virtual PC). Researching if its possible to use it via firewire to get 4x the bandwidth versus Ethernet.

what this could do is allow you to basically run OSX on a PC - in a roundabout way. Using the PC to control the MacMini staying in OSX for Live.. and using a Mac/cross-platform equivalent to FX Teleport to harness the PC's power, but never really having to use Windows.

its an interesting concept, and it would take alot of tweaking. but where there's a will there's a way. I'll see if i can't test the concept with my g/f's ibook later on in the week.
Let us know how it goes
BEEN THERE DONE THAT

oooohhhhhhhhhh !

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:46 pm

hoffman2k wrote:or this

Bosco
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/33857

cheers hoff

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:50 pm

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:06 pm

would be a more fair comparison.

ultrasource · Post by **ultrasource** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:11 pm

^^True^^
It's all marketing tomfoolery.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:17 pm

i'll have to make an animated gif of 3 Dual Opteron Shuttles stacked up against a G5 Powermac

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:35 pm

sorry for pointing these shortcomings out but it is becoming tooo easy...
from http://www.apple.com/macmini/design.html reads:

Most low-cost PC manufacturers slap together Frankenstein machines by hacking away features from the high end (of three years ago, anyway)

*cough*.. the G4 1.25ghz was introduced in 2002,
ya know - three years ago