Just heard about the new Mac Mini, which will sell for UK GBP 339 / US $ 499 (but without display/mouse/keyboard).

The basic Mac Mini uses a G4 running at 1.25Ghz/1.42Ghz (depending on which one you buy) uses an ATi 9200 graphics engine (w/32Mb video RAM) and the OS is Mac OS X 10.3 (Apple sales pitch to off).

So I'm guessing that BOINC should run on it !

Any one care to throw some light on this (EDIT: ie the principle of whether BOINC would run on it? /EDIT

Timbo

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regards,
Tim
Founder, UK BOINC Team
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BOINC should run on it as is.

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BOINC Development Team, U.C. Berkeley
My Blog

BOINC will run on it, but I wouldn't buy it. [hordes of Mac users gasp in unison at the heretical statement]

I'd wait out until Steve comes to his senses, puts a G5 in the box, raises the friggin FSB to 400MHz+, adds another DIMM slot for a 2GB cap, declares the modem as dead as a floppy, and then I'd get a copy of Fedora Core 3 for PPC to run on it.

2¢ on a €350 box.

[ADDENDUM] Just for the record, I've had a Mac since the days of System 6.0.7.

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> I'd wait out until Steve comes to his senses, puts a G5 in the box, raises the
> friggin FSB to 400MHz+, adds another DIMM slot for a 2GB cap,

That wouldn't make for a $500 box (which is the whole point).

> declares the
> modem as dead as a floppy, and then I'd get a copy of Fedora Core 3 for
> PPC to run on it.

But if you run FC3, you don't get Aqua. :-)

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Rob

> BOINC will run on it, but I wouldn't buy it. [hordes of Mac users gasp
> in unison at the heretical statement]
>
> I'd wait out until Steve comes to his senses, puts a G5 in the box, raises the
> friggin FSB to 400MHz+, adds another DIMM slot for a 2GB cap, declares the
> modem as dead as a floppy, and then I'd get a copy of Fedora Core 3 for
> PPC to run on it.
>
> 2¢ on a €350 box.
>
> [ADDENDUM] Just for the record, I've had a Mac since the days of System 6.0.7.
>

Putting a G5 in this little box might turn it into a toaster :o)

Regards Hans

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Considering that 75% of the power consumption goes straight to the GPU? Yeah, I'll take a G5 any day of the week with OF video - So long as the FSB gets boosted and another DIMM slot gets added.

When that happens, I'm getting four of 'em and running Xsan :-)

With pinstripes, brushed metal, and eye candy, it's no wonder that PowerPCs aren't considered "serious" computers... Run Linux and there's no doubt of the raw horsepower.

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Plonked:7805231 (7740:60157)7822892 (7969:63927)7824121 (7993:64345)
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Whats up with the Numbers NA ... ???

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> Plonked:7805231 (7740:60157)7822892 (7969:63927)7824121 (7993:64345)
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> Whats up with the Numbers NA ... ???
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I think that the fist number is user_id the second is thread number and the third is post number

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=7805231
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=7740
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=7740#60157

That my best guess as I had been wondering too.

Dunc

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Hand that man a cigar!

In the name of fairness, I publicize who's on my sh&iexcl;t list and why. I'd rather have put <pre><b>Plonked</b><br><a href=&quot;http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=7805231&quot;>7805231<a/> (<a href=&quot;http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=7740&quot;>7740</a>:<a href=&quot;http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=7740#60157&quot;>60157</a>)</pre> and so forth, but there's only 256 bytes free for a signature...

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