On May 21, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Jerry McBride wrote:
On Sunday 21 May 2006 15:35, JimD wrote:
Cliff Wells wrote:
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 11:52 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
wrote:
I have not used it though I plan on getting the OS X version
once my
Mac Mini arrives...
I have doubts about the performance of a VM on that hardware.
I've got
a mini and it's not fast (at least running Linux). Usable for
general-purpose stuff but it feels pretty sluggish if I ask it to do
anything heavy. I don't know any benchmarks, but if I had to
give you a
"feel" describing it, I'd put it on par with a 1GHz PIII with a slow
drive and not *quite* enough memory. In short, it's great for
doing
testing on or just day-to-day stuff, but I think running a VM may
be out
of its league.
If you can, replace the disk with a 5400RPM drive which will help
a lot.
Regards,
Cliff
Do you have the "old" mini with a G4 and the dog slow 4200 RPM drive?
If so that would explain a lot. The new Intel based ones have a much
faster processor and a much better hard drive. The difference is
night-and-day.
Wot? They're using Intel in the mini too? Hmmm... time to rethink
my next
linux server appliance...
Yes, the mini was upgraded a few months ago. $599 gives you a 1.5ghz
Core Solo, 512mb, etc and $799 gives you a 1.66ghz Core Solo, 512mb,
etc. You can go up to 2GB. They have a mediocre intel inegrated
graphics of some sort (something 950) but for the price it is fine.
I ordered a refurb $1.66ghz Core Duo Mini for $699 and had a $200
Apple Store coupon from their Aperture price reduction rebate, so it
ended up being $499. Can't complain about that. :-) (I plan on
leaving OS X on it but you could probably run Linux on it as well. I
have a Cocoa OS X app I developed that I need to make run on Intel OS X)
<http://www.apple.com/macmini/>
Google should help you find folks running Linux on them and how they
did it.
best
Chad
Thank you for the heads up.
Jerry
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