Mini-Mac sucks

[Rooster]

http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_N_spec.jsp?motherboardId=221

Bye-bye proprietary crap.

[cletus]

Yea, I wanna get one of their new nano-itx motherboards for my carputer project. To relate its size to something hold up a CD, thats how big the nano-itx motherboard is. A company actually makes a case that can fit an entire carputer into a single DIN slot which is the size of a standard cd player.

[fcpchop]

yea that idea "carputer" sounds awesome. I bet in no time we will see them all over the place.

[bofh]

http://www.viaembedded.com/product/e...herboardId=221

Bye-bye proprietary crap.

What are you complaining about? If you don't like the Macmini, don't buy one.

And that board? Not competion. It doesn't have DVI or Firewire. It does have TV out which somebody will find very cool. But it has an edenN processor... I thought you PC zealots always railed on the Macs being slow? And Dual onboard dedicated random number generators? That thing isn't even meant for consumers.

Admit it, you just hate the powerPC chip.

[Will Wood]

For a second I thought you were refering to a local tourney series here in Maine and I was like WTF.

But yea...

[spantol]

Don't mind Rooster. It gets mighty cold under his bridge this time of year, so he's bound to get a little cranky.

What are you complaining about? If you don't like the Macmini, don't buy one.

And that board? Not competion. It doesn't have DVI or Firewire. It does have TV out which somebody will find very cool. But it has an edenN processor... I thought you PC zealots always railed on the Macs being slow? And Dual onboard dedicated random number generators? That thing isn't even meant for consumers.

Admit it, you just hate the powerPC chip.

[FragTek]

Pretty amazing mobo, it'd be fun to use one in a custom mini-computer project.

[Hexis]

Nice little mainboard. I can see quite a few interesting uses for that. Not quite the same as the Mac mini tho.


Other than comment further, I think I'll just avoid feeding the troll.

[LudavicoSoldier]

Unless it runs OSX, it doesnt matter, IMHO. Any idea if that nano-itx board supports 'nix? Honestly, I wont buy PC components unless I can use them with some other OS aside from Windows.

Have phun with that malware now!

[Rooster]

Its like any other pc component, it will run linux, red hat, os/2, windows, or anything else you would like to run on it.

And yes, I feel really sad I won't have to throw my computer in the trash in three years because its utter garbage and there is no way to upgrade it. I'm crying on the inside.

[bofh]

http://www.viaembedded.com/product/e...herboardId=221

Bye-bye proprietary crap.

No Victory Dance quite yet

I'd wait on saying buh-bye until, maybe, that hardware is available.

Or is it the stand Zealot practice to annouce that something that I have in my hands now, will be obsoleted by a product that might be released by the end of 2005.

[LudavicoSoldier]

Erm, my 333 iMac (over 5 years old) is still running OSX (10.3.7) PERFECTLY! Cant say the same for my old PC desktop...

[Rooster]

Yeah I bet it worlks great to type on a word processor or read emails. My seven year old computer is recording a TV show off the cable, while I play any online PC game I want, and burn a DVD. (Yes I have components that are seven years old in my PC, still working fine.)

I'm thinking about adding a emulator so I can get rid of the Ps2. Lets see a seven year old mac-in-trash do that.

[bofh]

Yeah I bet it worlks great to type on a word processor or read emails. My seven year old computer is recording a TV show off the cable, while I play any online PC game I want, and burn a DVD. (Yes I have components that are seven years old in my PC, still working fine.)

I'm thinking about adding a emulator so I can get rid of the Ps2. Lets see a seven year old mac-in-trash do that.

My 1999 era 400 G4 iMac does everything that I've required of it, which has included video editing and sound production.

And I haven't had to put a DIME into upgrading it in over five years.

It's false economy to beleive that upgrading that computer over the last seven years saved you money.

[Rooster]

I've spent 1700.00 over seven years. How much did you pay for your computer off the shelf?

Btw, my computer runs video editing programs just fine. 2.4 ghz with 1 gig of ram, 256 mgs of video memory, and 260 gigs of HD space. Its not top of the line, but its better than 90% of the systems out there. And because I'm not a retard, I've never had a problem running windows OS.

Sorry you got ripped off.