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From: John B on 24 Jun 2010 04:51
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:25:29 +0100, "Julian Jordan"
>If you've got a metal catch from a floppy disk and a sturdy table knife, you
>can open it in about a minute without making a mark on it:
>

Many thanks, I will certainly give this a try.


From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 24 Jun 2010 05:13
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:45:40 +0100, John B <nospam(a)nospam.please>
wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:24:50 +0100, John B <nospam(a)nospam.please>
>wrote:
>
>Just another question, I had intended to use a Dell keyboard and
>mouse, I assume the latter will be fine but as regards the keyboard
>will there be any issues? ISTR that the mini was advertised as being
>able to work with a PC keyboard and mouse but I could be wrong here.

Yes, that'll be fine.

You'll have a couple of keys in the wrong place (@ and " are switched,
hash and \ also I think, and the bottom row keys go
ctrl-alt-cmd-spacebar-cmd-alt-ctrl though you can move those about
using System Preferences/Keyboard).

Somewhere I've got a keymap that matches a PC UK keyboard, if you'd
like it. Oh, hang on...
http://www.gingerbeardman.com/UK.keylayout/
There it is!

Cheers - Jaimie
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From: Duncan Kennedy on 24 Jun 2010 11:49
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:

> Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote:
>

>
> Optimum? Certainly not! 4GB is /okay/ - adequate - for my needs. I'd
> want at least 8GB if I could have it, and in a few years from now I
> expect to find myself wishing for 16GB.

Yup - I guess I should have added "for a Mini" - and possibly even "for
an Intel Mini" so that it was clear that it was related to the subject
line.


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From: Rowland McDonnell on 24 Jun 2010 12:22
Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote:

> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > Optimum? Certainly not! 4GB is /okay/ - adequate - for my needs. I'd
> > want at least 8GB if I could have it, and in a few years from now I
> > expect to find myself wishing for 16GB.
>
> Yup - I guess I should have added "for a Mini" - and possibly even "for
> an Intel Mini" so that it was clear that it was related to the subject
> line.

<raised eyebrow> `For a [Mac|Intel|BMC] Mini'?

Go on, what do you mean?

Rowland.

P.S. Probably not a BMC Mini, anyway.

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From: Andrew Hodgkinson on 24 Jun 2010 13:11
On 24/06/2010 15:24, Rowland McDonnell wrote:

> Optimum? Certainly not! 4GB is /okay/ - adequate - for my needs. I'd
> want at least 8GB if I could have it, and in a few years from now I
> expect to find myself wishing for 16GB.

Good grief, what are you all doing with your machines to call 4GB merely
"okay"?! Personally I would cut all those numbers in half. The only time
I run into significant RAM constraint on my 2GB early 2006 MBP is when
building large panoramas from numerous 8Mpixel source images. Otherwise,
it's fine; even with large numbers of Safari tabs. Runs Logic Studio
nicely with lots of soft synths; large photo editing seems fine; HD video
editing is CPU bound; you get the picture!

I'm genuinely intrigued about this - your opinion on required RAM seems
increasingly the norm - you're definitely not alone in this - yet despite
running some very heavy duty applications, I find 2GB "okay" and 4GB
plenty for anything other than the most demanding tasks. But by that
point, the CPU and (discrete, in the MBP's case) graphics capabilities
have usually long since become the limiting factor - an early 2006 Mini
would hit this wall even sooner.

If we're all piling in more RAM just to avoid swapping, SSDs may make
this much less of an issue - if the prices ever become sane! - since
swapping to a (reasonably competent) SSD is a far less painful process
than to a typical HDD. Putting an SSD into a platform with a low maximum
RAM chipset limitation could make a huge difference if your applications
are typically RAM bound.

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