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The Mac mini Is Here

The West County Apple Store called telling me my Mac mini has arrived. I picked it up this morning and set it up. Everything went smoothly.

Mac mini I have wanted to buy a Mac for some time now. I blogged about it 569 days ago. The last time I seriously used a Mac was when it was still called MacIntosh and looked something like this.

The Mac mini gave me a perfect excuse to jump into the Mac OS X world. I purposefully bought the $499 version. And I have decided that I will never work on this machine. No Fedora Core 4 for this Mac mini. Not even the JDK. It's going to be pictures, music, videos and other fun stuff.

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on February 19, 2005 8:30:34 PM CST #


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Re: The Mac mini Is Here

Comment from Bob Lee on February 20, 2005 11:20:38 AM CST #
It comes with a JDK. ;)
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Re: The Mac mini Is Here

Comment from Eric Burke on February 20, 2005 3:10:16 PM CST #
An old JDK :-(
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Re: The Mac mini Is Here

Comment from Weiqi Gao on February 20, 2005 3:29:28 PM CST # 
Weiqi-Gaos-Computer:~ weiqi$ java -version
java version "1.4.2_03"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_03-117.1)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-34, mixed mode)

Not to bad. :-|

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Re: The Mac mini Is Here

Comment from Eric Burke on February 20, 2005 6:21:47 PM CST # 
C:\>java -version
java version "1.5.0_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_01-b08)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_01-b08, mixed mode, sharing)
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Re: The Mac mini Is Here

Comment from Brad Shuler on February 21, 2005 12:11:40 AM CST #
Weiqi. Welcome to the Digital Hub. What will you plug in to your Mac? I am picturing you tweaking bass guitar loops until 2:00AM with GarageBand..

Bob and I will get the last laugh on Eric..

Prediction.. Apple will write a nice check to buy out Sun Microsystems in the next 24 months. Then the Mac OS X crowd can enjoy running bleeding edge versions of Java for once!

Of course 3 years from now Weiqi will track back to this message and point out how even though I was correct about Apple buying Sun, no one could have predicted in 2005 that IBM (and the open source community) would be first with a JDK 1.8 download -- which of course Eric will immediately use to write a wonderfully useful application -- which we (and 20,000,000 others) won't be able to run our JDK 1.7 boxes (or JDK 1.2 at the client site!).

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Comment from Brad Shuler on February 21, 2005 9:20:42 AM CST #
Have we opened a terminal window yet? (The devil in your ear..)
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Re: The Mac mini Is Here

Comment from Mike Shoemaker on February 22, 2005 8:05:43 PM CST #
Im curious about your thoughts now that you have had a few days to let OS X sink in. Make sure you check out a few of the gotta have apps like these
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Comment from Weiqi Gao on February 22, 2005 11:15:25 PM CST #

Thanks for the suggestions, Mike.

A couple of days are not enough for OS X to sink in. I have been using Safari, Apple Mail, iPhoto, iTunes. I'm impressed by iPhoto.

I just downloaded Firefox. Even though Brad had told me how easy it is to install software on OS X---"just drag it into the Application folder"---I'm still surprised by the process. I was expecting a dialog box of some sort asking me if I wanted an express install or a custom install. What happened instead is that the Firefox icon just showed up in the Application folder, ready to be used.

I think I'm beginning to understand why Mac users are so passionate about their operating systems.

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Re: The Mac mini Is Here

Comment from Brian Gilstrap on February 22, 2005 11:21:04 PM CST #
I too am interested in your thoughts. In particular, if there are things you feel are missing or confusing, I'd love to know what they are.
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Java support by Applet is a shame !

Comment from Anonymous on March 24, 2005 5:30:22 AM CST #
Since all the sources are available for the JDK, it is a shame that Apple still provide its VM very late compared to other major platforms like windows, linux or even solaris. I was very interrested by the Mac mini to build a Java home server. But because of that I will have to step out of Applet world and get back to the PC !!!* Sumicom is providing good alternative in that direction with the S615 or the S625F see http://www.sumicom.com.tw/ Mr Jobs please consider inproving your Java support ASAP.

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