Unforeseen benefit of migrating to the mini

I just got my electric bill today and it was lower than normal. I realized that this month I have been running my Mac mini (85 Watts) 24/7 as a webserver which replaced my dual 800MHz G4 (338 Watts) which I had been running for 2 years as a webserver.
Imagining that each computer was running at full blast for 24 hours that would be 2,040 Watthours each day for the mini and 8,112 Watthours each day for the dual 800. This makes a difference of about 6,000 Watthours per day. Ergo, I would save a maximum of 180 kWH per month by running the mini instead of the dual 800. If a 500 kWH bill runs about $100 then it is about a savings of $36 each month.
Now, I am sure that the two computers were not running at full power all the time, but still, there is some savings going on. In addition, the mini takes up much less space than the dual 800 and is much quieter. I couldn't be happier.

Electrical Watts is a measurement of potential energy store capacity to be provided by the device in question. 85 Watts is the maximum of the power supply. You will have to adjust your calculations downward. A typical power draw of a mini performing standard office/browsing tasks will be close to 20Watts, performing MPEG decoding and DVD playback pushes it up closer to 35Watts under heavy load. Now just add in the actual power draw of your monitor and you are set with your electrical cost calculations. I no longer run any tube monitors in the house anymore after measuring the wattage use of just one in the powered on state. All the LCDs I have running draw less than one of those monitors.
Doing nothing but idling around at the windows desktop waiting for input, my PC, still have it, draws 168Watts not including the attached monitor being powered on.
So in short always read wattage claims on devices as potential, like CPU usage percentages the actual amount fluctuates up and down in a zone somewhere below that printed amount.
Now sleeping the mini and leaving your standard brick power supply plugged into your average American home (unlike some countries which put switches on all the power outlet plugs preventing vampiric drains from brick power supplies, digital clocks and always on even though the unit shows powered off designs) you will find it takes just about as much electricity to sleep your mini than shut it down and leave it plugged in the wall. That is why I always sleep mine, the 1 second power-on back to the OS X desktop is just icing on the cake. The prolific chipset external hard drives I run also sleep and power up with the mini without any errors which is also really neat.
Jan J.

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Canceling Migration Error - Mac Mini - HELP!!!

HELP!
I am migrating my G4 Power PC Tower to a Mac Mini. I set up and started the migration using the Migration Assistant over an ethernet connection. Mini stated that the Migration would last 2+ hours - no problem.
I am switching monitors, and so, in the interest of time efficiency, I did so during the migration. Dumb idea. Something caused a disruption about midway through the migration. Now, on the screen of the Mini is a message in the Migration Assistant stating that it's "Canceling Migration, this should take less than a minute".
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I've hit ESC. I've hit ALT/APPLE/ESC.
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What utility are you using to backup your drive?
Apple buys hard drives from major manufacturers like Toshiba, Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital. The drives will last as long as any drive you would purchase from them. Some last long and some don't.
Suffice to say the drives carry a specific warranty. That should give you an idea how long the manufacturer thinks it will last on average.
You can restore files from your backup pretty easily in Mountain Lion. If you are using Time Machine then you can actually boot from a Recovery HD image that it places on your backup drive. To boot from it you must connect the backup drive, then restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager appears. Select the icon for the Recovery HD and then click on arrow button beneath the icon.

Editing video on the mini

Will the mac mini be able to support Final Cut Express HD and possibly Final cut pro? Do I need the 1 GB upgrade or will it work reasonably well with the 512? I am going to major in video editing so I need a computer that will be able to handle Final Cut programs.

I use Final Cut Express 2 and iMovie HD on my mini (with 512Mb RAM) and both work well, though Final Cut might benefit from more RAM. If I were using the system for video as a primary task, I'd certainly opt for 1Gb as a matter of course.
It would be wise to add an external firewire hard drive to capture video and provide an improvment in performance. Without this, as per a recent discussion on drive performance, you might find Final Cut Pro a little lagging in responsiveness for regular or crucial use.
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[svn:fx-trunk] 12552: DataGroup now tracks the indices of the active virtual item renderers with a list , rather than the min/max values.

Revision: 12552
Revision: 12552
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-12-04 13:45:12 -0800 (Fri, 04 Dec 2009)
Log Message:
DataGroup now tracks the indices of the active virtual item renderers with a list, rather than the min/max values.
DataGroup/addItemRendererToDisplayList() now respects the overlay.
QE notes:
Doc notes:
Bugs: sdk-24052
Reviewer:
Tests run: DataGroup, List
Is noteworthy for integration: no
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/sdk-24052
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/components/DataGroup.as

Hello Martin:
Thanks for your input. However I am not certain we have resolved this issue adequately, or understand the principles governing the css as regards this spry menu framework 2.0 (1.0).
For example, the menu only works in IE 6.0 if the css remains in the head. I agree with your original post that it shouldn't make any difference whether the css is posted in the head or in a separate style sheet (so long as specificity issues are addressed). Both should work -- and yet it doesn't.
If the CSS is placed in the separate style sheet governing the total site, it doesn't work for 6.0. If placed at the top of the style sheet, conflicts of specificity prevent the menu from rendering properly in any of the browsers causing the rules for general links to govern the menu.   This has been verified using a cross browser testing. If the styles are placed at the bottom of the style sheet to help them take precedence, they work in all the browsers except for IE 6.
The website I am building needs to support IE 6 for a variety of reasons, and because it is catering to the non-profit community and to low income persons, I am mindful of even small differences in page weight.
So for me, at least, the issue remains baffling.
I appreciate your input, but also would appreciate the input from others, and especially Adobe Community Professionals and employees. The spry framework in this regard is not well documented. I am not certain if this is exclusively a CSS problem, if it might also be complicated by the architecture of the spry framework, or if indeed other variables are at play.
I would be my hope that in resolving the problem, other users of the this particular spry framework might also benefit.
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Migrating from a Mini w/ Tiger to a Mac Pro w/ Leopard

Tomorrow FedEx should be delivering a Mac Pro that I got a sweet deal on via the Apple Refurbished Macs store online. I want to migrate the apps I have installed on a Mac Mini onto the Mac Pro so that I don't have to reinstall them, and I wouldn't mind having all my preferences and settings show up on the new Pro as well.
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I've written down that "the Pro will ask if I want to migrate from another computer - select the Mini" (which I'll have connected via Firewired).
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Anybody familiar enough with this routine to be able to tell me which choice I'm supposed to make at that juncture?
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--PS

Is your Mini an Intel or PPC model? If the latter I'd recommend against using Migration Assistant. See the following:
A Basic Guide for Migrating to Intel-Macs
If you are migrating a PowerPC system (G3, G4, or G5) to an Intel-Mac be careful what you migrate. Keep in mind that some items that may get transferred will not work on Intel machines and may end up causing your computer's operating system to malfunction.
Rosetta supports "software that runs on the PowerPC G3 or G4 processor that are built for Mac OS X". This excludes the items that are not universal binaries or simply will not work in Rosetta:
Classic Environment, and subsequently any Mac OS 9 or earlier applications
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System Preference add-ons
All Unsanity Haxies
Browser and other plug-ins
Contextual Menu Items
Applications which specifically require the PowerPC G5
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Java applications with JNI (PowerPC) libraries
See also What Can Be Translated by Rosetta.
In addition to the above you could also have problems with migrated cache files and/or cache files containing code that is incompatible.
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2. Connect a Firewire cable between your old Mac and your new Intel Mac.
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In your /Home/ folder: Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
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/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist (* This is a very important file which contains all email account settings and general mail preferences.)
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/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
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TS1963 indesign cs4 is giving me an error 5 after i migrated all the other programs adobe suite cs4.

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http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54463

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How long should a migration take? Mine says about 24 hours.

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still be able to use the Mini Displayport to DVI adapter with the new MacBook Pro's Thunderbolt port. Correct?
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