I need the specification sheet for MB138B/A

Hi John,

Thanks for the info. The investment in the memory is over 20% of what I paid for the Mac Mini on ebay and I'm wondering what performance enhancement in % terms I would get. Is there an data on this?

Regards

Fred

That is shocking; the Mac Mini will only see 3 Gbytes yet that will not be enough! Best to stay on Leopard and not upgrade to Snow Leopard then. Would that be correct?

I'm refering to the following article:

http://www.cultofmac.com/15010/10-reasons-why-snow-leopard-is-an-essential-upgra de/

Did further updates from Apple make Snow Leopard slower?

Hi BD Aqua,

Yes, browsing can eat up the memory especially Safari and I found viewing pdfs to be the biggest culprit. I'm moving away from Safari to Firefox for this reason and as my previous workhorse was a PowerBook G4 I had to move to an Intel based Mac to get the latest versions.

I agree security is the big question and there are debates about Apple's policy to only support the last 2 OS's. Some in the media reckon this is the XP syndrome where 47% of the PC base is still on that platform and nt budging. Apple has the same figure for pre Lion and13% are pre Sno Leopard. Hence 34% are on Snow leopard with the likes of me upgrading to this rather than further I presume. Certainly going through eBay for this Mini has shown me how much there is a market for PPC machines let alone Snow Leopard ones. I think Apple is going to have to backtrack and support Snow Leopard at least and maybe even Leopard.

In summary, I think Hype-Ware has had a toll on people and no one has a the stomach for so frequent upgrades.

Thanks for the info. I'm considering keeping my PB G4 now, especially as it has an Azerty keyboard. However, security and Java support does remain an issue.

I've just received my 2x2GB RAM upgrade from Crucial so I'm going to upgrade the Mac Mini at the weekend; Snow Leopard should also arrive by then. For the record, the following is a useful video on how to crack a Mini :-) (an old term that used to be used for the Mac Plus and SEs; yes I go back that far in fact my first was a 512 upgrade toa Mac Plus :-) ) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYUjWODQ92I

Ouch! Firefox has decided to no longer support Leopard even on Intel based Macs and even recommend everyone move too Mountain Lion! Hmm! I think some will move to Windows XP! I bought a used Toshiba Equium and downgraded to XP and all is fine and speedy, running Office 2010. Most, no doubt, will go Windows 7. Will there ever be another Steve Jobs to save Apple?! This could be 90s all over again, Apple failed to produce a multitasking OS and Windows NT grabed the productivity market; Apple is putting too many of its eggs in iCloud, iPhone and the iPad which can be taken away away from it in a jiffy; if you don't own the desktop you don't own a thing! Microsoft used its position with the desktop OS to even rattle IBM, Oracle, Sun. I hope Larry Ellison is awake!

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-no-longer-works-mac-os-x-10-5

Hi John,

I've just realised that the microphone for my combined microphone and earpiece, which works for my PC laptop and which has a separate microphone and earpiece jacks doesn't work with the Mac Mini. From the specification sheet you pointed me to I can see that the Mac Mini has no microphone input but has a Combined "optical digital audio input/audio line in minijack.". Not too sure what this is but how do people use the Mac Mini to Skype or even iChat? Can you help with this?

Thanks

Fred