Bought a Mac Mini

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#1

Well after having worked on a windows laptop at home for quite a while now, because my desktop machine exploded, I finally decided to get another computer.

I bought a Mac Mini running OSX. I must say I’m very impressed with this machine and with the OS. I was a bit afraid of moving to OSX but I’m getting used to it very quickly.

I’m not a linux guy so I was a bit scared of the update/install process programs use. However after having updated the OS and installed X11 and Gimp as well as some other programs I am very happy. No fuss no muss installs, beautiful. Came with J2SE 1.4.2 and webstart. I don’t see the SDK perhaps you have to install that separately?

Any OSX devs have tips for me setting up java SDK?

#2

The SDK should already be there. It should be under /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home. Just type “javac -help” in the terminal to check. :slight_smile:

#3

yep sure enough it’s there, thanks.

#4

I’m sure you’ll have already noticed in the licence agreement that you’re required to immediately grow a goatee and switch to decaf… ;D

#5

LOL, now that’s funny!

#6

So did you get the basic model or upgrades? Details!

#7

[quote]The SDK should already be there. It should be under /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home. Just type “javac -help” in the terminal to check. :slight_smile:
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But you likely want to install the developer pack from the Apple website. It will give you the javadocs and the JRE source code.

#8

[quote]So did you get the basic model or upgrades? Details!
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I got the basic model http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html . The stores here don’t have the “faster” version yet. I wasn’t willing to wait for it, and didn’t want to order from Apple directly. Right now I’m just getting the feel for it, I think I’ll probably upgrade the RAM. Eventually I’ll need to get an external firewire harddrive.

I couldn’t see paying an extra $100US to go from 1.25ghz to 1.45ghz when the bus speed on both is the same. The guy at the store want to sell me an “extended waranty” for $200. I told him to take a hike, at $500 for the machine if dies I can buy another one.

It comes with a couple of OGL based games and both perform very well, an accasional gitch but the Radeon 9300 card seems to do the job.