Leaping Leopards - Leopard is leaping!

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:01 am

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?sto ... 6083309693

Who wants to test it first???

Phil O · Post by **Phil O** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:16 am

Hey, my system is working great! I'm gonna hold off this time until all the reports are in.

Phil

emulatorloo · Post by **emulatorloo** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:32 am

I will do what I always do --

-- buy it

-- put it on an external firewire drive and play around w it to see if it works (installing my favorite apps).

-- if it does, back up my working internal 10.4 drive w superduper

-- and then install it on my internal drive

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mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:31 pm

I'm more interested in seeing the specs on the new Mac Mini that is rumoured to get announced on the day that Leopard actually releases.

Based on the specs, I can't run Leopard on my aging G4 iMac anyway, but if they bump the front bus speed of the Mac Mini, I can see that as a low-risk upgrade that eventually becomes a backup or networked system.

There is nothing compelling in the new release as far as I can tell. I would probably use Spaces for higher productivity and less desktop clutter, and also the stacked dock icons for organising VI's, etc. So the main deal is 64-bit native support, correct?

Is there anything different about the version of Boot Camp shipping with Leopard? Or just the convenience of having it pre-installed?

emulatorloo · Post by **emulatorloo** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:04 pm

mhschmieder wrote:I'm more interested in seeing the specs on the new Mac Mini that is rumoured to get announced on the day that Leopard actually releases.

It would be odd for Apple to release a new Mac mini on Leopard day (Oct 26) as they just updated the minis not too long ago (August). Usually they wait a good long while between updates, AFAIK>

And IMHO the latest minis sound like FANTASTIC machines, especially for a G4 user wanting to play around w the intels:

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The 2007 Mac mini Value Equation
http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/mm07/0808.html

http://www.lowendmac.com/deals/mini.html

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See also:

http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23972

mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:39 pm

Sorry, my fault: I was on vacation when the Mac Mini's got updated, so didn't know about that until checking Apple's website yesterday.

They are more appealing now, but still the worst bang-for-buck of anything in Apple's line.

I do hope the rumour is true that they might be coming out with a Cube replacement, which would more or less be a taller Mac Mini with more expandability than an iMac but less than a MacPro.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:58 am

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?sto ... 6083309693

Who wants to test it first???

Well, I guess I do after all. After watching the Apple promo yesterday, I decided it was worth a try. Very cool features...

emulatorloo · Post by **emulatorloo** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:40 am

mhschmieder wrote:They are more appealing now, but still the worst bang-for-buck of anything in Apple's line.

To me the combo drive one doesn't seem to bad value wise. (I would probably get that one, because I have other superdrive macs around.)

But the superdrive one -- $$$$$ -- kinda crzy.

I gotta say the 20inch iMacs do seem like the real value in the consumer line.

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