From: /m 


How's Parallels working for you?  I also equipped my Mac mini worth 2Gb,
planning to use VMs.   I'd like to get this bulky Windows off my
desktop...


  /m

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 08:58:11 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>George,
>
> Yep,  I have a Mac Mini in the living room for use as a media pc. I
>configured mine with 2GB of RAM though as I'm using the Parallels virtual
>software  ( www.parallels.com ) to run Win 2k in place of using the Apple
>dual boot XP/wga stuff.
>
> In use the mini's worked quite well but I had had problems with the
>scheduling of sleep mode ( doesn't always work for me) so now I just
>schedule a daily power off/on cycle ( never fails ). I have had several
>hangs when I had the mini set to turn my plasma display off after several
>hours of idle time ( it would never wake the display up again ) so I avoid
>that now.
>
>I'm using the Apple wireless keyboard but ditched the Apple wireless mouse
>for Logitech 2-button ( makes life easier )
>
>Apple just released the 10.4.7 software update which I applied last night so
>maybe the sleep/saver glitches are gone
>
>As a Mac neophyte I found the O'Reilly book 'Switching to the Mac Tiger
>Edition' by Progue and Goldstein quite useful
>
>I had some problems finding a usable 'universal'/intel AC3 codec and finding
>the usable DivX software ( had to use the beta ) but they've just announce
>the 'universal' version of 6.5.1 on 6/29 ( haven't tried it yet )
>
> I've been using http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/  and
>http://www.versiontracker.com/macintel/ to locate software for the mini.
>
>
>
>"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
>news:44a6208c{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Rich,
>>    Did I remember correctly that you recently bought a Mac?  I am
>> seriously moving in that direction and was wondering what  you purchased
>> and how it has worked?  I was thinking of the Mac Mini with 1GB RAM and
>> 100 GB HardDrive.
>>
>> George
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:44a55c3b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Tried to go onto the wga forum and received this
>>>
>>>
>>> Your user acount has been banned. Visit here for more info.
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Naturally the link to visit has nothing to do with the banning
>>>
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?WS=communities
>>>
>>> I reckon they only wish happy news
>>>
>>
>>
>

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