Swarling Black Mable » Apple http://blainegarrett.com Blaine Garrett's Home on the Web - Art, Programming, Ideas, and more Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:50:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Need a MacMini G4? $200 http://blainegarrett.com/2009/07/29/need-a-macmini-64-200/ http://blainegarrett.com/2009/07/29/need-a-macmini-64-200/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:07:45 +0000 blainegarrett http://blainegarrett.com/?p=619 Update: This was sold

MacMini

My girlfriend Arika is selling her old MacMini 64. Here are the specs.

  • 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 Processor
  • 256MB of DDR SDRAM (supports up to 1GB)
  • 40GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive
  • Slot Loading Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
  • ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card
  • Built in 56k Modem and Ethernet
  • One Firewire 400 and 2 USB 2.0 Ports
  • Built in speakers and headphone jack
  • Running Tiger

The same system with more RAM, is being sold here for almost $400. Arika is asking $200. If you are interested, reply in the comments or contact me through whatever channel.

As a reminder, the Mac Min doesn’t come with mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc. This would be ideal for anyone who needs to do testing on a Mac, needs to run some Mac apps, needs a portable computer, or is a KVM fan.

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Anyway, the first step was to disable my stupid dashboard. I found the info at this site and already my computer is faster. I never use my dashboard so it is pointless to always have running. So yup.

The command to kill it is: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
And then you need to restart the dock : killall Dock

Boom. Increased performance!

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