3.5 HDD for the Intel minis?

Question

I heard a rumor somewhere the new Intel minis have a 3.5" HDD. Is this true?
On a similar note, Apple should produce a premium mini, with the same specs as the iMac, but without the screen and same small case design, even bigger. I would like to bring my own display with a powerful mini.
Bryan

Answer 1

Hello,
Screen burn in, 2 displays in a couple of months, I
think you are full of it!! I have a Rev A iMac G5 and
Well, the local dealer was quite surprised to see it as well. But, he came to my house, and hooked-up another monitor to make sure that it wasn't a video circuitry problem. And, concluded that it was definitely etched into the LCD panel.
Installing a new LCD panel immediately fixed the problem, and the currently etched images disappeared.
But, a little intensive work and new images are burned-in again.
have left the screen burning many days without screen
savers and have had only 2 desktop pictures. The last
picture is 1 +year old. I have the dock on the left
side from day one, and moved it and looked nothing!
even on shut down, Nothing "0" burn in here.
The problem isn't just from having a stationary image on the screen.
The iMac G5 seems to have suffered more from the combination of a stationary image and intensive (extremely hard work).
I found that if the temperature was high, that the screen would burn-in very quickly. Even on a brand-new panel.
But, that's the nature of how I need to use the machines. They are going to be pushed very hard.
In my case, I was working with audio (editing, refining, splicing, filtering, etc.), for a few hours.
The temps on the computer would rise to a nice cooking state (heat radiating at you).
I believe that it is the close quarters of the iMac that lead to this burn-in problem.
I think the panels would be fine if they were not subjected to extreme heat while displaying images.
But, when pushed hard, I believe that the image is actually "cooked" into the LCD panel.
I've never had any trouble with light usage causing burn-in. For example, iMovie and iDVD don't seem to stress the computer hard enough.
But, professional level (extremely demanding) audio editing seems to push it hard enough to really cook.
I would suspect that if you brought me any iMac G5 or CoreDuo that I could burn-in it's display permanently within 2 hours with my level of usage.
But, if I treated it nicely and babied it, then I'm sure I could keep the panel from burning-in. But, then if you're going to baby it, then there's no point in having all that power available.
In my case, the burn-in that I have seen looks less like "image-persistence" and more like someone took an exacto-knife and traced the outline of the windows (with buttons) into the LCD panel.
You can see a very defined (bright white) line that exactly matches the border of the windows and buttons that were present on the screen.
As another poster here mentioned, Image-Persistence is supposed to be reversible. But, the problems I have observed would not disappear.
I tried Apple's solutions:
1) Display a pure white image across the entire screen. I tried this for more than a day. No improvement. It just kept the panel warm, and further cooked-in the image.
2) Leave it off for as long as the image was on the screen. Well, the image was only on the screen for a couple of hours to burn-in the image. I tried turning the computer off for several days (about a week) and no improvement at all.
The problem was definitely an image etched into the panel. Connecting an external LCD panel produced no problems. And, installing the new LCD panel cured it until a new image was burned-in.
I basically came to the conclusion that the iMac G5 system was a great computer if you don't need the power it provides. But, if you push the G5 to it's limits, then you'll likely have problems like I had.
But, there's no point in buying a computer at any performance level if you don't intend to use it's performance potential.
If I only intended to use the machine to a level that a 1 GHz machine would be sufficient, then why would I buy a 2 GHz machine. It would be a waste of money.
But, if I buy a 2 GHz machine, I will definitely expect that I can use the machine to it's potential without damaging it. If it cannot handle the work, then they shouldn't design it to perform the task.
Anyway, the local dealer was equally as skeptical as yourself. But, when he came out and saw the machine in person, he was equally as shocked as I was. I had my full audio setup right there on the desk still setup for him to see what I was doing.
Note this was not basic audio work. This was complete pro-level equipment feeding audio into the machine for manipulation. No USB equipment and consumer stuff.
Real mixers, pre-amps, tape decks, turn-tables, etc. fed into the computer through it's audio input port.