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Mac Mini's, Small Form Factor PC's and content/game development

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kat:
Looking at the prices of Macs on eBay I never realised just how grossly over-inflated the market was/is!1 2 3 Seriously, you could buy brand new hardware1 for the asking price of some items and damaged Mini's are pushed higher than I'd expect1 2.. amazing what some people will do for a 'label'. Just to point out I've never been into the whole Mac vs PC thing but I'm fed up of having a hulking mass of plastic on my desk taking up all the available space. So, I'm looking at Mac Mini's onto which I'll load Windows OS - which you can do with Intel based machines, 'we' (IBM PC users) have the Shuttle machines, the small form factor stuff, but even those are just too big for someone not that interested in constantly upgrading with the latest hardware, PC manutacturers need to produce a proper decent small form factor machine.. it's not like the technology is holding us back on that one.  ::)

Shaderman:
Ever thought about using a virtual machine to save desk space? VM's are sometimes good enough for some quick testing of game dev stuff, if you need good 3D performance you'll have no luck though :/

silicone_milk:

--- Quote from: Shaderman on February 09, 2010, 07:34:13 PM ---Ever thought about using a virtual machine to save desk space? VM's are sometimes good enough for some quick testing of game dev stuff, if you need good 3D performance you'll have no luck though :/

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I use a VM for several linux images on my Windows XP machine. Great if you're just doing some tests :)

kat:
It's not the OS I'm looking at really, it's the physical hardware so I'm not quite sure how VM's work other than allowing you to use different OS installs on the same PC?. Using a laptop has it's advantages - power supplies both a monitor and the computers innards - but it means for larger screen sizes, having a large bit of kit taking up quite a bit of desk space that could be used for other things. Are 'shuttle' machines the smallest consumer PCs available?

Shaderman:

--- Quote from: kat on February 10, 2010, 05:13:30 AM ---It's not the OS I'm looking at really, it's the physical hardware so I'm not quite sure how VM's work other than allowing you to use different OS installs on the same PC?.
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Not sure if you have the wrong idea here: "allowing you to use different OS installs on the same PC". You're running your main OS on your hardware and other OS'es in a VM (in a window of your main OS). A VM is just a software you install under your computers existing main OS. Depending on what you want and need, a VM can save you desk space and money.


--- Quote from: kat on February 10, 2010, 05:13:30 AM ---Using a laptop has it's advantages - power supplies both a monitor and the computers innards - but it means for larger screen sizes, having a large bit of kit taking up quite a bit of desk space that could be used for other things. Are 'shuttle' machines the smallest consumer PCs available?

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Are wall mounted monitors an option? :)

AFAIK the shuttle comps are the smallest on the market, but others like MSI might be interesting as well. Just search for slim pc / slim computers.

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