The shuttle cases are nice and compact, but difficult for certain upgrades (disks, CDs and expansion cards easy, RAM, CPU and PSU involve dismantling the whole thing which is time consuming).
I run an old (32 bit stylee) Athlon 3200+ and that's still going fine so I expect the 64-bit versions will do fine. Athlon isn't the silliest name, it is the section of Decathlon and Pentathlon that means field or track events. So it sounds athletic, and as the hip is all about performance that makes sense. More than Xeon, Alpha or Itanium, but less than Pentium or Power. Certainly more accessible to the general public than numbers.
I also have a Mac mini (middle version) and am happy with that. It fits in with my living room AV equipment nicely as it is small, silver and quiet and iTunes makes a nice replacement for a hifi, plus I can surf the net in my living room. Only far more expenisve PCs would be as quiet. Also there are far fewer known OS X exploits. The mac infrared remote control is a waste of time and money as it doesn't work on the OS as a whole but just the iLife programs (DVD, music, etc.) and needs line of sight, unlike the bluetooth keyboards and wireless mice you can buy.
I also hope you have enough funds to pay off the credit as the interest on most credit cards is higher than most other forms of loan.
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Date: 2005-11-07 11:41 am (UTC)I run an old (32 bit stylee) Athlon 3200+ and that's still going fine so I expect the 64-bit versions will do fine. Athlon isn't the silliest name, it is the section of Decathlon and Pentathlon that means field or track events. So it sounds athletic, and as the hip is all about performance that makes sense. More than Xeon, Alpha or Itanium, but less than Pentium or Power. Certainly more accessible to the general public than numbers.
I also have a Mac mini (middle version) and am happy with that. It fits in with my living room AV equipment nicely as it is small, silver and quiet and iTunes makes a nice replacement for a hifi, plus I can surf the net in my living room. Only far more expenisve PCs would be as quiet. Also there are far fewer known OS X exploits. The mac infrared remote control is a waste of time and money as it doesn't work on the OS as a whole but just the iLife programs (DVD, music, etc.) and needs line of sight, unlike the bluetooth keyboards and wireless mice you can buy.
I also hope you have enough funds to pay off the credit as the interest on most credit cards is higher than most other forms of loan.