- With VMWare Fusion, you can run any operating system in the universe, including 64-bit ones. Perfect for your multiplatform development environment. Of course you have to soup it up to low latency 4GB (3GB usable, before I get corrected. The 1 GB is for that extra millisecond) and 7200 RPM drive if you want to do any serious virtualizing.
- It's very small (see the CD case I put on my Mac Mini for reference on the photo) and very quiet. Your desk is already littered with many gadgets you have to
play withevaluate, you need this one to be unobstrusive. - Oh, you're not developing on Mac? Well in case you haven't heard, just letting the programmers touch a Mac will guarantee 20% increase in code production (of course you have to give the 20% back as "official private time", Google style).
P.S. If like me you are using a KVM and keeping your non-Mac computer, switching back and forth, you will quickly be annoyed by how lame the non-Apple keyboard support is (I sense fanboy wrath coming... I better duck).
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I thought the current mac mini only went up to 2GB? I agree that it's a great tool for the travelling toolsmith.
~Matt
Matt, nice to meet you! I subscribe to your blog, been meaning to add it to the links, now I've done it.
For maximum memory on Mac Mini, see OWC http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/mac_mini/intel
Technically it can only address 3GB anyway, but if you put in 4GB then dual channel kicks in. Or something like that.
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