William Chops Westfield wrote:

> Actually, I was wondering if the Mac mini didn't make a cute little
> general purpose unix machine, completely ignoring all the stuff
> MacOS takes to the table.  At $500 for the basic unit, it's not as
> far off of the (similarly out-of-mainstream) super-small PC clones
> as most macs are, and it's ... cuter.

Now you just *know* some crazy dude is going to build a cluster of them 
and pile them all up in a stack and smile for the camera for Slashdot, 
but I think the PICList crowd is a little more pragmatic than that!  ;-)

256MB RAM is too wimpy for day-to-day Workstation use, with all of 
Apple's eye candy, I think... but they did put a medium-fast graphics 
card in it (Radeon 9200/32MB Video RAM), so it might keep up.

The 1.25 G4 is plenty of horsepower to get stuff done with some added 
RAM, and network disk space is always an option for the cheaper 40G hard 
drive version.  A big external Firewire drive if doing video or other 
data-intensive stuff might be useful.

Nate Duehr, nate@natetech.com
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