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Date:      Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:05:21 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mac mini
Message-ID:  <p06230927c025791cdb02@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <0FE0E37C-0C91-47AA-B187-63676900D243@orthanc.ca>
References:  <10552c50.8fe63426.819d300@dommail.onthenet.com.au> <0FE0E37C-0C91-47AA-B187-63676900D243@orthanc.ca>

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At 6:28 PM -0800 2/24/06, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>On Feb 24, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Peter Grehan wrote:
>
>>>Can anyone say if the Mac mini works 100% with FreeBSD?
>>>If not I'm not going to buy it :P
>>
>>  6.0-RELEASE was built on a mini :)
>
>And don't buy one now.  Wait (a few days?) until the PPC mini
>is replaced with the Intel version, forcing the price of the
>PPC Mini down.

History suggests that it might not force any price down.  Apple sold
both PPC and Intel versions of iMacs, until they had sold off their
remaining PPC machines.  No price reductions, since some people will
be just as happy to stick with PPC even after Intel versions are
available.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu


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