My iBook G4 vs. New Mini ?

I am thinking of getting the 2.0Ghz or 2.6Ghz Mini with 4Gig RAM. I have an iBook with a 1.33GHz PowerPC chip and 1.25Gig RAM. I do email, Powerpoint and Word for Mac, Internet, iPhoto, I may get into video (iMovie) just a bit.
Question is will I notice an increase in performance (speed, no hesitating, etc) going to Mini? If not, why am I thinking of getting one? (HELP!) And, is there any reason to upgrade to the 2.6Ghz chip?
Thanks! Much appreciated.

beaglemutt, I recently moved from a G4 mIni to a used 1.66GHz Core Duo mIni. And the speed difference between these two relatively close models was impressive. While (as noted) memory is good for more speed and Rosetta apps will drag everything down, I am not seeing that you listed anything in your common apps that will not see a big boos by getting a new one.
Example: Exporting from EyeTV to my iPhone on the G4 took several hours for even a half hour show. Now? I can actually just turn on export and every show is prepped, fairly quickly, without slowing the system down so much I can't watch another show or do other tasks.
If it is this apparent in a first gen intel mIni, I can only imagine the improvements going from a G4 to the new mIni.

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I am sure this is all fairly obvious and I'd imagine that this would be possible, would there be any advantages to doing this as opposed to investing in a new system altogether? Any input would be much appreciated.

+wondered If I could just use my laptop as a screen and transfer all the information to the mac mini and run off of the mac mini.+
This question comes up about once a week.
No Mac is designed to replace a monitor and keyboard.
You can, however, connect two Macs with an ethernet cable and using that network connection do screen sharing. But you probably won't like the results for anything except very casual use.
You'd still have to use a real monitor, keyboard, and mouse to setup your new Mini.
Once set up, you'd run a VNC program like Chicken of the VNC on your old Mac, and you'd have Screen Sharing active on your Mini. This would let you control your Mini with the iBook's screen, keyboard, and trackpad.
But as I said, you probably won't like the results. Budget for a monitor.

HT1535 I just started my new mini IPad, and when I clicked the network, my connect to iTunes went off, now I can't move on or get that connect to iTunes back on the screen so that I keep going

IT is so frustrating,because I cannot go further without being connected to iTunes..it's a brand new mini IPad, and I gave the network and then the iTunes thing to press to connect disappeared...HELP!

Try this - Reset the iPad by holding down on the Sleep and Home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons. (This is equivalent to rebooting your computer.)
Since you are a new iPad user .....
Complete guide to using iOS 6
http://howto.cnet.com/ios-6-complete-guide/
Guide to Built-In Apps on iOS
https://sites.google.com/site/appleclubfhs/support/advice-and-articles/guide-to- built-in-apps-ios
You can download a complete iOS 5 iPad User Guide and iOS 6 iPad User Guide here: http://support.apple.com/manuals/ipad/
Also, Good Instructions http://www.tcgeeks.com/how-to-use-ipad-2/
Apple - iPad - Guided Tours
http://www.apple.com/ipad/videos/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT2bD0-OqBM
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How to - Articles & User Guides & Tutorials
http://www.iphone-mac.com/index.php/Index/howto/id/4/type/select
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Transferring albums from older iPod to newer Mini Mac

How can I transfer some albums from my wife’s old iPod 20 GB model A1059 to our newer Mini Mac. Most of the older albums were transfered to the new computer, but somehow I must have deleted many of the albums, which are still on the old iPod. How do I transfer those albums? I don’t want to mess up what I currently have in my iTunes. Any help or direction would be appreciated.

Hhi there Vince1942,
It sounds like you have media on your iPod that you want to transfer to your Mac mini. You can use this article to transfer your iTunes Store purchases over:
Re-download or transfer your iTunes Store purchases from an iPhone, iPad or iPod to a computer
Keep this in mind for media from other sources:
This feature works only for content bought from the iTunes Store. Any items that you imported from audio CDs or received from other sources won't copy from your device to the iTunes library. However, all podcasts from your device's Podcasts app and copies of all PDFs and books from your device's iBooks app will transfer to the computer. Learn how to transfer media to your iTunes library.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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Suggestions for new mini

I'm ready to buy a new mini to replace my current iBook. I'm considering buying a unit with 320g HD and 2g RAM or 250 HD and 4g RAM. I'm looking for enough processing power to do editing of photos using Photoshop Elements. I currently have an external HD and I'm considering adding a 1T HD to my Airport Extreme to take advantage of Time Machine. I'm not interested in opening up a new mini and upgrading the RAM. With that in mind, does anyone have have a suggestion as to which mini is the most cost effective for me? Thanks for the input.

I currently own the latest Mac Mini (the 320GB model) and I have to say it has given me enough power to do everything I run on it. I was first a little worried at the fact that I would't have enough power to run all my other apps but it runs them flawlessly. I'm able to run Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended Edition, iMovie 09', Final Cut Express HD, and many other games without any slowdowns. (I'm also able to play Oblivion in bootcamp at almost full settings and the frame rate is still awesome.)
If I were you, I'd get it because it is an awesome computer. You just have to remember that it comes with a Mini DVI to DVI adapter which I couldn't use so I had to spend another $50 on a Mini DVI to VGA adapter. If you have the money, upgrade the RAM as much as you can since out of every Mac that Apple has ever made, the Mac Mini is the hardest to open.

HELP: Can't connect to the internet with new mini

Hi
I've just unpacked the new mini I bought today. I use a LAN that I set up myself. I use a Linksys Router 11Mb/s. All computers atached to it work fine, including an iBook G4 with Airport Extreme.
The Mini does recognize my network via Airport, and the Airport card MAC adress is already in the authorize list, but still does not connect.
Worse, I plug an Etherner Cable to the plug that works with a PC, but still no internet. I set up a manual IP adress instead of DHCP. Still no internet. I reinstalled the entire OS X, from start, still no internet.
Any ideas, anyone ? Thanks !
pd: This is frustrating, I just brought it from the store today

Try turning your router/modem off. Now connect the ethernet cable to the mini and the router and restart the router/modem. If it works, update the system.
When connecting airport, make sure you turn off the router/modem, and then take out the ethernet cable and then restart the router/modem and then power up your mac mini and set up airport.
If the above does not work, RESET the modem/router to its default settings. Once trained, use a ethernet connected Mac to set it up (the Mini perhaps).
I am suggesting this because I had to turn off my router to connect one of my Macs before I could surf the net. i also find resetting the router can sometimes iron out connection issues.
iMac G5 1.6 ; PowerBookG4 1.33 ; MacMini G4 1.25; Mac OS X (10.4.4)

HT1766 How do I back up my iphone5 to my ICloud account, when my restrictions password. My restrictions pass code has my icloud a account greyed out? Can i backup to a wd external harddrive, or try to backup to a new mini-mac, i jUst purchased?

How do I back up my iphone5 to my ICloud account, whqen iI have forgot my restrictions password. My restrictions pass code has my icloud a account greyed out? Can i backup to a wd external harddrive, or try to backup to a new mini-mac, I just purchased yesterday? This is my first iMac and IPhone5, so i am kinda out on my own, and can use some pointers!! My phone is full of pictures, and will not download anything, until i store my pictures somewhere!!

If you don't remember your restrictions passcode, you will have to force the phone into recovery mode and restore it using iTunes. Do NOT restore your backup. The restrictions passcode is part of the backup.
Everything on the phone will be lost.
You can extract the photos from the camera roll the same way you would from any other digital camera. Having a restriction passcode set should not prevent that. do that before you put the phone in recovery mode and restore it.

I have an existing mini mac and 4 tb external drive. My iTunes library exists on the external drive under /itunes... I have purchased a new mini mac and I want to leave the library where it is but move to new mini mac.. what do i need to do ?

I have an existing mini mac and 4 tb external drive.
My iTunes library exists on the external drive under /itunes...
I have purchased a new mini mac and I want to leave the library where it is on the external drive but move to new mini mac and have it show as it did on the old mini mac..
what do i need to do ?
I have found multitude of articles about moving itunes to external drive or other similar things but I don't want to move itunes from the external drive, just change mini mac machines and have everything in itunes the same..
Thanks

I had already tried that one and got this...
below is screen shot of what is on the new mac mini
and what is on the external drive now connected to the new mac mini..
There are no media files on the mac mini just the library files and on external just media files..
Do I need to copy anything over from the old mac mini ? xml files ? .. the itunes folder on old mini is about 840mb in size which looks to have artwork ect ? .. I am fairly computer literate, but this one has me stumped.. ?
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I added a new mini ipad and created a new email for it in icloud when i did that i could no longer get back in my apple ID and download anything and lost all my money on my account. it says my account never excisted which I had from 2007 and 1300 items

i opened an icloud account for a new mini ipad to give them their own email, so they wouldnt be on my account, but when I came back to my account I could no longer get in my account with my password, so my account was gone....and now all the accounts are over lapped and dont work right, I want to get back to my original apple ID and everything I have bought over the last 6 years!!
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HT4157 All my texts on my iphone stopped working when I synced my new mini ipad with the same ID as my iphone. ATT said was that was the reasons my texts failed. How do I give my mini ipad a new apple ID and still be able to sync the iphone and iPad?

My texts all failed when I synced my iphone 4S to my new mini ipad with cellular. ATT said I needed to create a separate ID for the mini ipad in order for texting to work. Will separate apple IDs still enable me to sync my iphone to my mini ipad?

Go to Settings>Mail, etc.>iCloud and delete the account. Then add in a new account with the details you want.

This may be a duplicate but, I have a new ipad mini that I need to activate but I need to get my data from my 1pad 1 which has never been backed up. How do I get the data from the ipad 1 to the new mini? I have itunes acct and also Icloud acct. Thanks

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 Cheers, Tom

Can I use my old MAC MINI as a hard drive, or do I need to transfer all the data to a new Mini?

I would like to get the new MAC MINI, but I was wondering whether I could somehow just keep my old mac mini as a storage drive and continue to use its DVD drive since the new mini doesn't have one. Has anyone out there done this? If not, what is the best way to transfer data from one mini to another?

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How can I transfer songs from my iPhone 4 to my new mini iPad. My PC is not working.

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Can I link an OS10.4.11 Mini to a new Mini with Lion?

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You can either boot the old Mac mini in 'FireWire Target Disk Mode' which turns it in to a glorified hard disk, or you can boot it but have Screen Sharing turned on so you can remotely control it from the new Mac.
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My photos are not showing up on my new mini and it seems like all of the setting are right

I madwe a mistake when registering my new mini- instead of registering it as a new device, I put it in as a replacement for my iPad- anyway, none of the photos from my iPhoto are apearing on my mini-

Are you referring to the Photo Stream? If so log out of the iCloud account on the iPad and log back in to the same iCloud account as used on the Mac.
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