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Originally Posted by Efrem
The higher-ed price of 10.4 is $69.
Some campus stores are pretty anal about making you show an ID to get educational pricing, especially in cities where otherwise everyone would walk in off the street and buy stuff. Others, especially if they're away from a city so they don't get a lot of non-campus traffic, tend not to bother. You also may be able to convince the Apple online store that you have an educational connection. I'm not suggesting lying about your situation, I don't know how (or if) they check, but it might be possible. I haven't tried. |
core image
Core image should speed up many things on the display side, as long as the motherboard and graphics card support it. For some reason, the mac mini does NOT fall into that category which is a shame.
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Ordered mine today, luckily my wife is a student so it was only $69 plus tax - free shipping.
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i just ordered mine right now off the Apple Store online with my educational discount. woohoo! too bad theres no tracking # :(
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Originally Posted by WHOAitzChRiS
i just ordered mine right now off the Apple Store online with my educational discount. woohoo! too bad theres no tracking # :(
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Originally Posted by WHOAitzChRiS
i just ordered mine right now off the Apple Store online with my educational discount. woohoo! too bad theres no tracking # :(
No going to a store and waiting in line necessary. incidentally... Over the last 3-4 years the Apple Store has been very good at delivering orders of the OS on the release date, so you can expect that the same will be true this time around. Unless you feel like communing with others who enjoy everything Apple, I don't see a reason to buy at a store. |
Originally Posted by Tummy
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What I don't like is that I have to pay $129 for each of these, unless I buy a new computer where it would be included. They have also been releasing these paid upgrades every 12 months or so. After this release, Apple claims that they will be slowing down their cycle. |
Originally Posted by nmenaker
Core image should speed up many things on the display side, as long as the motherboard and graphics card support it. For some reason, the mac mini does NOT fall into that category which is a shame.
That said, some of the pretty real time effects, like the ripple effect in Dashboard, will probably be turned off, as the CPU likely won't be fast enough. |
sure
sure, the mini for example will still I guess "use" it, but it will not be in the optimized fashion that other CPU's will be able to "use" it. That said, my understaning was that this might actually be worse than the current implimentation, but maybe not.
I'd love to get a mini, and would love to take advantage of Tiger (rrrangrrr!!) but don't want to take one step back for 2 steps forward. Or something like that. |
Originally Posted by murphy
Core Image is just a graphics library and API. Macs without DirectX9-equivalent video cards (like the mini and the ibook) will still use CI, it just won't be offloaded to the GPU. All filters and effects should still be possible through the CPU, and should be reasonably quick since they're all optimized for Altivec.
That said, some of the pretty real time effects, like the ripple effect in Dashboard, will probably be turned off, as the CPU likely won't be fast enough. |
Originally Posted by HHHH
Also can anyone recommend a good mac program for ripping DVDs
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Originally Posted by alanw
So, you just upgrade the video card, no?
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I had no idea. Bummer.
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correct, sort of
Originally Posted by alanw
So, you just upgrade the video card, no?
yes, upgrading the video card, would most likely work although there is a bus connection and I/O issue too I think, but, the mac mini along with a number of other models, emac, ibook and some powerbook models are not upgradeable. |
A couple of other "essential" tools in your DVD Ripping set are:
DVDBackup 1.3 DVD2ONEX The latter is a commercial product that you should buy. The former is free and can be found using google or various filesharing utilities. I don't rip DVD's I don't own -- but I certainly make back up copies to take on the road! These tools will work fine for that. :) |
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