Technichally, Mac is not an acronym but an abbreviation; it's just short for Macintosh. In an acronym, each letter stands for something. I can't verify this, but judging by Apple's Australian website the Mac mini is already available there for a price of AU$799 and an estimated build time of 2-3 weeks.

there are very few annoyances on os x gui. in fact i only have 1: finder doesn´t do sftp (get fugu for that). well, maybe apple will correct that in tiger, finally. i don´t know.
btw, has anyone any experience with tiger´s new cluster stuff (XGrid)? it looks...hmm...interesting.
http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/

There you go at it again

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I can't verify this, but judging by Apple's Australian website the Mac mini is already available there for a price of AU$799 and an estimated build time of 2-3 weeks.

hell with that i not paying that much I was expecting it be approx $680-$700

I´m not paying $800 for one

I´ll wait a while



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"Imagine waking up one day to find your Mac has solved a vexing scientific problem. While the cure to cancer, super-efficient solar power and ending world hunger are a ways off, you can combine your computing resources using Xgrid — and help usher in a new era of biological breakthroughs, rocket science and advanced models of scientific phenomena."

maybe apple created a cluster to spew out bullshit.

I always find the OS Wars somewhat amusing and yet..disturbing. Different Operating Systems work for different people/systems for different reasons. Use what works for you.

it was just a joke...

its still funny to think that some dweeb gets "empowered" by apples propaganda.

ooh, im going to go spend 20000 dollars on xsevers and when i get home im going to find a cure for cancer. YAY!

All they're talking about is Folding@Home, the multi-platform distributed computing project created by Stanford for conducting research on how proteins fold through simulation. The data obtained from the simulations helps medical scientists inn search of cures to Alzheimer's, Mad Cow disease, and many cancers.

its a much better use of cpu cycles than seti@home. i tried the protein folding thing a while ago on my windows computer.

Yes, it sure is and if you didn't already know (I couldn't tell by your post), you can run it on Linux for x86 too.

i know. i might get into it later.

i heard seti@home were developing a GPU version. do you know anyhting about that?

No, I don't follow SETI too much since we left Mac OS 9 for Mac OS X. Someone else may know, however.

From my experience, it's pretty unstable still. We've been using Sun Grid Engine on our xserve cluster instead. Ironically we do cancer research on our cluster, so nuka_t your comment is highly applicable (though you need to multiply the price tag by about 20x)

Apple Laptops are defintely long in the tooth -- they are basically 3-5 year old technology - even the battery life isn't state of the art -- though it is bad to compare that to the Dell XPS while a screamer of a Laptop [possibly the fastest mainstream laptop money can buy] only has mediocre battery life. From the Dell website, the XPS laptop is about $4k. Between the two laptops, I think I would go for longer battery life and go with a Dell Laptop such as the 8600 (One I own already and wanted more than 45 minutes of battery life) and stick to my consoles (XBOX and PS2) for games.

On desktops, it is better to compare the PowerPC dual G5 2.5GHz + nVidia 6800 Ultra with similar specs to the Dell XPS similarly equipped. The XPS will still outshine the Mac on games (slightly), but the Mac will hold its own on floating point and image processing such as for video, or pictures. Not too shabby for a 1 year old design. Since half of my family income depends upon graphics, we have a dual 2GHz G5 and for a lot of non game tasks this is a great machine and cost a similar amount to a similarly speced PC, though if you put a lightweight OS on it like a properly specced Linux, it will blow the doors off of the Mac.

I would agree there is more reason to run Linux on the PC based computer than a Mac, though I don't think that Mac's are all that bad. I own something running both major OS's -- and am getting my feet wet with Linux. My first project is to install Linux on an old Powerbook G3 laptop I am repairing after the Lithium battery and main battery wore down! [problem with the Powerbook Pismo's]

my 17" pb has: 4hrs of battery life (i can watch 2 movies, it lasts at least 2 weeks if sleeping all the time), zero configuration wlan g, bluetooth (that works every time), all additional equipment works out of the box, fw800, 10/100/1000 ethernet, ambient light sensor (it adjusts the backlight and does it very nicely), sleep works every time (wakes up with wlan in 2 secs), flawless tv-out with it´s own icc-profile-option, thinnest design there is, pc-card slot, no external nipples that get stuck, quite good speakers for a laptop, smallest power adapter ever, low power consuption (and thus it is absolutely silent), now, for intensive calculations and total freedom from commercial software the dell is better. or any 2Ghz x86. but for overall fuctionality...i´d choose os x and my hardware any day. oh, i almost forgot: it has bash, X11, and if you install fink or gentoo for os x you can choose from thousends of oss the ones you like and install them with one command (or like with synaptic if you use fink commander: pre-compiled of from source). i really cannot see why some people don´t tolerate apple hardware/software. politics towards a stupid company is one thing, but come on. products are still great.

gotta standardize, and obviously this is not an AppleQuestions.org site...

So what do you think! Linux Server, Linux Business Desktop, OSX for Fun!.. thats my final answer! Life is to short to not have an iPod, iPhoto, iMovie, Motion, Lightwave, etc... ATBMS

So, I really Love my PowerBook! I kinda tripped out there for a few when I got it... I loved it so much I started buying Apple... I bought 10 eMacs, 3 iMacs, and 5 PowerBooks... for the Business. Luckily I put them all in Creative Departments... they all thanked me up and down, and since then they have all purchased Apple for there Home... Apple Laptops are Smokin!! Im sticking with those for all Laptops though.. And my IT have both, either an iMac or Powerbook, and a Linux Tower!!

I actually went a little crazy, as I had been testing SuSE 9.0 Pro, on the Desktop and was having som issues.. I was thinking of how I could use Apple... But then 9.1 and 9.2 arrived, and viola! I came to my senses... and swiftly rolled it out... I'm about 70% Linux on the Desktop (250 total), and OpenOffice is everywhere!!! except the Apples I use Neo Office. (same thing)

I use all Linux Servers!!! Although the XServe is sooooooo tempting...

I want one!!! So Bad...

Wait, I'm back... just went a little crazy again! hehehe

Tough call! man... They both Rock! depending on what your doing... and who you are...
Im a crazy, freaky, Punk Rock, CTO... with 19 locations. apple servers, naw. ain't gonna work, for me. gotta standardize, distribute, and keep it simple.

So what do you think! Business is Linux! Play & create on OSX!

Yes, i dual Boot the YDL & OSX.