New iMac 24" & Mac Mini Updates

[willems]

i've tried pretty much all the browsers and i always end up back with safari cos to me its the best

 

[Echo toxin]

I would check out Omniweb too from http://www.omnigroup.com

It is a nice browser designed purely for OS X. Last time I had a Mac was about two years ago and alas Omniweb did feel a bit slow on Panther. Maybe they've improved rendering speeds in Tiger and Omniweb since then.

I will probably stick with Opera though as it has the two features I would miss - mouse gestures and the "fit to width" capability.

 

[Beepcake]

Does firefox really hurt performance that much? I'm using it now, is it better to stick to safari, or use opera or something?

Firefox is horrible on OSX imo. Give Camino a go (I usually use the nightly build), it's based on the same rendering engine as FF, but it's Macified . You can get a few addons etc. for it from http://www.pimpmycamino.com

 

[Ghost in the Shell]

del

 

[Phil Gr]

Finally took the plunge and ordered the following

Imac 20''
2.33GHz
2 Gig Mem
256meg GFx
500 Gig HD
Bluetooth KB & Mouse

Should be here sometime next week.

My PC will be finally retired to the loft, & the conversion to apple will be complete

 

[AJUK]

So have I, just ordered now but I went for the 24 incher!

2.33 GHz
2Gb Ram
250 HD
7600 (256)
Apple USB Modem (need that for faxes, how dull is that! )

Already have a BT keyboard and mighty mouse whihc will be transferred across to the new beasty. I may be selling my 20" G5, 1Gb iMac to a bloke I know for about £600 or so, so winner all round.
CAN'T WAIT!!!

 

[Beepcake]

They certainly look pretty nippy from the Macworld benchmarks

http://www.macworld.com/2006/09/firstlooks/imac233bench/index.php

I'd like to see the new screen in the flesh.. 40% brighter is quite a hike!

 

[Echo toxin]

Is the mini safe enough to leave on continuously day after day after day? i.e. it won't overheat?

 

[Beepcake]

Is the mini safe enough to leave on continuously day after day after day? i.e. it won't overheat?

Most people I know that own them do that.. never heard of a problem.

 

[AJUK]

Is the mini safe enough to leave on continuously day after day after day? i.e. it won't overheat?

You can set them up to sleep if left alone for a specified amount of time, not only does it power down but it saves power. They wake up immediately as well.

 

[hogfather]

As far as I can tell, mine literally switches itself off, as when it sleeps it has no heat output at all. I love the instant wake up too, awesome.

Cheers for the advice, I'll try the macified FF then!

 

[Big-Mac-Please]

When they go to sleep can you unplug the power? Never tried it myself!

 

[FirebarUK]

I'd imagine not, its like hibernate.

 

[hogfather]

Why would you want to unplug the power? If you did it'd just switch off, so there's no point?

 

[Big-Mac-Please]

To save electricity and not have to wait for it to boot up.

 

[FirebarUK]

It doesnt work like that, you still cant unplug it if it goes into "sleep", which is basically suspend to ram or hibernate.

 

[Berserker]

In Windows speak, hibernate is suspend to disk, which you can unplug from. Does the Mac use different terminology? (I'm not familiar with the portable side)

 

[Beepcake]

The Mac equivilient is 'safe sleep', where it suspends to ram and suspends to disk at the same time.. if the power is interrupted is restores from disk rather than ram. It's not supported on every mac though.. i'm not sure if the new desktops support it or if it's restricted to the laptops. You can also force the machine to just suspend to disk, which I tend to do with the Macbook if I won't be using it again within a few hours. Suspend to RAM murders the battery life on the Intels

Pre-safe sleep the older laptops had battery backed up RAM to handle complete loss of power from switching batteries etc.