Glaanieboy
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I've heard quite a strong rumour today at work that we are gonna sell the Mac Mini's in the not so distant future (part of a deal Dixons NL had with Apple with the iPods. Dixons managed to get a good price for the iPods, in exchange for the selling of the Mac Mini's) and because I need a new computer quite soon anyway, I thought of getting one of these babies But I have a few questions:
1) I will be using it for surfing the web, creating websites (PHP and HTML, no fancy WYSIWYG HTML editors, just plain old text), maybe a game here and there (no fancy 3D game shooters, just Mayjongg or sump). Should I get the 1.25 GHz one or the 1.4 Ghz? 40 GB (that the 1.25 one has) is more than enough for me, 80 is waaay to much, so I won't look at that. Is the difference in CPU speed enough to spend the extra 100 euro more?
2) Memory: It comes preinstalled with 256 MB of memory, is that enough? I know that Windows XP needs a 256 MB minimum to work smoothly, is it the same for Mac OS-X 10.3? Is it worth to get the 512 MB upgrade? Again, no fancy computing for me, no games, no (well, maybe a little basic) video-editing, just basic use and web-developing. Is it really that difficult to upgrade the RAM?
3) Software: I think I will be installing OpenOffice.org on it for my documents etc. But do I 'need' anything else?
4) Do you know other pitfalls to look out for before migrating from Windows XP to Mac?
I hope you can answer my questions
1) I will be using it for surfing the web, creating websites (PHP and HTML, no fancy WYSIWYG HTML editors, just plain old text), maybe a game here and there (no fancy 3D game shooters, just Mayjongg or sump). Should I get the 1.25 GHz one or the 1.4 Ghz? 40 GB (that the 1.25 one has) is more than enough for me, 80 is waaay to much, so I won't look at that. Is the difference in CPU speed enough to spend the extra 100 euro more?
2) Memory: It comes preinstalled with 256 MB of memory, is that enough? I know that Windows XP needs a 256 MB minimum to work smoothly, is it the same for Mac OS-X 10.3? Is it worth to get the 512 MB upgrade? Again, no fancy computing for me, no games, no (well, maybe a little basic) video-editing, just basic use and web-developing. Is it really that difficult to upgrade the RAM?
3) Software: I think I will be installing OpenOffice.org on it for my documents etc. But do I 'need' anything else?
4) Do you know other pitfalls to look out for before migrating from Windows XP to Mac?
I hope you can answer my questions