Moving to mac - few questions.

midgetski

midgetski

midgetski

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Hi, I am thinking of moving to mac and am looking at buying the more expensive mac mini with 1 gig RAM.

However, I am still interested in running windows applications and have found a number of possibilities. So far I have found boot camp, parallels or crossover mac. How well do these work? Would the mac mini be able to run them?

Also a possibility I have found is running my existing XP pro system by remote desktop. Does anyone do this and does it work well? Would it work on the mac mini?

Also is it worth waiting for the new OSX which is scheduled to arrive in April?

Thanks
 
midgetski said:
However, I am still interested in running windows applications and have found a number of possibilities. So far I have found boot camp, parallels or crossover mac. How well do these work? Would the mac mini be able to run them?

Also a possibility I have found is running my existing XP pro system by remote desktop. Does anyone do this and does it work well? Would it work on the mac mini?

Also is it worth waiting for the new OSX which is scheduled to arrive in April?
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Boot Camp and Parallels are probably your best bet, Crossover Mac is very buggy and has limited software support as of now.

Parallels is great for everything except for gaming as well as allowing you to run Windows/Mac OSX/Linux side by side, boot camp is much the same except it plays games better.

If your running remote desktop into Windows XP Pro on your Mac Mini it should work much the same.

As for the new OSX it depends on how badly you want the Mini or OSX, the upgrade to 10.5 would run you £80, £60 with an HE discount.
 
Thanks. What would be better: mac mini 1.66ghz with 2 gig ram or mac mini 1.86ghz with 1 gig? Would it be worth extra £120 for 1.86ghz with 2 gig ram?
 
I'd go for the faster one with 1gb for the moment. You'll get a DVD-RW then too!

1gb will be perfectly fine. Can always upgrade to 2gb at a later date! ;)
 
midgetski said:
Thanks. What would be better: mac mini 1.66ghz with 2 gig ram or mac mini 1.86ghz with 1 gig? Would it be worth extra £120 for 1.86ghz with 2 gig ram?
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Always go for Ram over CPU (well not in stupid circumstances!) I would rather have a 1GHZ with 4GB RAM than 4GHZ with 1GB RAM.

This is especially important within OS X as the more RAM you feed it the faster it goes!

Rich
 
Yeah, but ram is easily upgradeable and can be done at a later date and for cheaper than apple charge too.
 
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