Mac Mini doing fast OS switching

Posted April 24, 2006 by phil & filed under General.

Wowser, here’s vid of a Mac mini Duo, doing some fast OS switching. It’s running OS X with Parallels and Virtue Desktops which allows it to run Windows XP and Red Hat 4 ES all at the same time. The switching between the 3 OSs uses the ‘cube effect’ just like the fast user switching of OS X, and looks to be just as swift. I think that’s about all I need to see, if I can have a Mac Mini Duo running a triple boot like that, I think I’ll be all set (for a few weeks).

UPDATE: it looks like it would only cost an additional about 78$ for a 512Meg RAM chip to bring this puppy up to 1G total. OS X seems to ‘need’ at least 1G RAM in my experience, plus this would be way more than enough to run a few OSs at once, or at least the ones I need; OS X and Linux. Looking around it seems that replacing the RAM is quite the adventure! Time to find my tweezers.

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Ohreally_factor

I bought a refurb 12″ PB last fall, that as luck would have it, came with a 512 MB RAM. So far I’ve put off taking out this stick to replace with a 1 GB, but it’s been getting painful. 768 MB just isn’t enough if you run with a lot of open apps, like I do.
http://fak3r.com/ fak3r

I hear ya, I’m on my 800Mhz iBook sporting the maxed out 640Megs of RAM and if I have a few Firefox tabs open it’s just click, wait, click, wait…painful is the right word for it and I feel I can complain about it because when I boot over to Ubuntu Linux on the same ‘top it’s much smoother. Again, once I have some speed and some RAM (apparently I don’t have enough) OS X will be much nicer to use.
Ohreally_factor

I bought a refurb 12″ PB last fall, that as luck would have it, came with a 512 MB RAM. So far I’ve put off taking out this stick to replace with a 1 GB, but it’s been getting painful. 768 MB just isn’t enough if you run with a lot of open apps, like I do.
http://fak3r.com fak3r

I hear ya, I’m on my 800Mhz iBook sporting the maxed out 640Megs of RAM and if I have a few Firefox tabs open it’s just click, wait, click, wait…painful is the right word for it and I feel I can complain about it because when I boot over to Ubuntu Linux on the same ‘top it’s much smoother. Again, once I have some speed and some RAM (apparently I don’t have enough) OS X will be much nicer to use.