What do the MAC heads think of this?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 4:56 pm

... 5 years ago they sold the Cube - and rumours said it was delivered bundled with a jigsaw to cut a hole into the furmniture to get the cables out of sight....

for those who don't visit the New York MOMA on a regular base: those cables were plugged into the bottom plate of the machine...
anyway - we bought some of those machines for 1200 Euro each. They do their service as intended, day by day, close to no service required. You could easily sell them for at least (!) 600 Euro, do that trick with your 5 year old PC, Braincell...

btw. I recently installed iTunes (on a Win2K server) - smart app, you have pay attention not to clickn'buy just for fun - found some pretty strange and old stuff, too.

cheers, Tom

valis · Post by **valis** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:27 pm

iTunes is hideously bloated on Mac & PC for a 'media player' imo. On my old 800mhz G4's it would eat 30% of cpu on a regular basis just playing mp3's (winamp used 1.5% on a p2-233).

Great for iTunes.com but it would be really nice if there was an iTunes lite for playback purposes only.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:25 am

Personally, I'd get one of these:

It's an approx 3" x 3" x 3" cube!

They are well cool, had a play around with one a work colleague bougtht. Specs and info here:

http://www.linuxdevices.com/products/PD7500373697.html

Royston

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:23 am

1.4GHz is enough for a starter musician, don't you think? I remember some years ago thinking 3000$ worth sampler is cheap... Now - buy a mac mini + a 15" TFT and a USB2 card + a soft sampler and keyboard + mouse and you end up with a monster for 1000$ or similar

valis · Post by **valis** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:54 am

Or for slightly more you could get an iMac g5.... (or for less get a nice amd box).

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:29 pm

On the subject of things Macintosh:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/14 ... erbook_g5/

!

Post by **hubird** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:02 pm

nice link, thanks

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:03 am

mac mini looks like a sandwich box.

However, cool marketing to sell the old technic
to the customers. You won`t find much pc users spending money on a barebone pc using a p3 cpu.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:20 am

well, as far as I understand Intel's plans their next design will be much closer related to the PIII than the PIV...

and may I kindly bring to notice that it was Apple who introduced the 'all-you-need-in-one-box-idea' 20 years ago - receiving the same bashing from the same type of people with the same arguments as today

cheers, Tom

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:59 pm

I dunno - i used a commodore then

Post by **hubird** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:31 pm

see you guys in the problem forum...

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:50 am

why? My Amiga never crashed when making music

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:03 am

stardust wrote:
And then came atari.

Atari's rocked. They still groove better than any £%@!*& PC I've ever heard. Or Mac

"Dedicated MIDI chips, sir?"
"Yes please"

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:31 am

sorry but I don`t fancy the sandwich box design as well as the name. It sounds like a mini menu of a common burger store.

However - what looks great is the anouncemts made of the macmini:

http://www.cyndustries.com/modules_minimac.cfm

Macminimodular sounds even better