Quote: Originally Posted by turtle777 I have a Mac mini, with a 80G - 4200 RPM internal HD. Well, *yawn*, as we all know, that drive is rather slow. I was wondering if I could …

Quote: Originally Posted by hudson1 The general consensus has been that an external FW400 7200 RPM drive won't create a faster Mac mini. [ ] You know what you are talking…

Quote: Originally Posted by David Thompson (I sure had a LOT of difficulty installing RAM modules! Had to reseat them three times before the system saw them. Not a lot of room …

I did this by first running through Apple's Currency Converter tutorial (on Apple's dev site). I made sure that I understood completely what every part of the tutorial was doing, …

If you do buy a hard drive, get a Seagate. I believe they are the only company offering a 5 year warranty on their drives. One of my 200GB desktop drives is making funny noises, …

If you're on Tiger, great. Get Xcode 2.1 and go from there. Since you already know C and OO programming, learning Objective-C shouldn't be a problem. For a good book, there's Stepe…

I went from a Dual 2G to a single 2G iMac - with more RAM on the single 2G. Frankly, I find the single as fast as my Dual 2G was in MOST cases, with exceptions when I'm really usin…

My Dual 2 is still so much faster than I can ever imagine. I'm not sure what will eventually drive me to a new machine .... software will have to get MUCH more demanding.

In a quick word...RAM helps a lot but the snapiness is really from dual cpu's. The dual's do a great job balancing any kind of load.

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If I had a Mini, I would probably buy a 7200rpm replacement drive for the Mini and then put the displaced drive into an external Firewire box.

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Quote: Originally Posted by hudson1 The general consensus has been that an external FW400 7200 RPM drive won't create a faster Mac mini. Contrary to general consensus, the…

And can you hear a pulsing sound that comes (I am not sure) from the 2 main fans in front of the processors ? It makes a kind of "woo woo woo" sound ...

You know what, if that works as well as it seems, it would also make upgrading totally easy as plugging in a hard drive. Wow. I was gonna get a FW HD for backup. Maybe I should use…

Quote: Originally Posted by ajprice Ned Flanders William H Macy Best one so far!

its the cpu, it happens on my powerbook also...

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I was lucky and had a Hitachi 60GB 7200rpm in my Dell laptop. I swapped that drive with the 80GB 4200rpm Mini drive and it made a HUGE difference. I have an emergency copy of OS …

Quote: Originally Posted by turtle777 Thanks for the link. From what I understand, that guy spent only $ 50. So I assume he didn't even get a high-performance drive (no specs…

You're welcome! I think he already had the 7200 drive on hand (from an older machine). So the $50 was for the Firewire enclosure.

Thanks for the link. From what I understand, that guy spent only $ 50. So I assume he didn't even get a high-performance drive (no specs, that would have been nice). I guess a 720…

I just got my PM dp2.0 yesterday. No chirping that I can detect. I've got the unit on the floor, but fairly close by. The only thing I hear are the disk drives accessing. (I su…

Someone's already done this: http://www.budget-ha.com/apple/mac-mini-firewire/

FYI, my friends PC also chirps. Seems to be gfx related - so any time you resize a window etc...