I pulled the trigger...

[Cape Dave]

Does your cat use stuff you buy her? I bought mine a bed and she won't use it she lays on the couch or the bed, or a suit case on the floor.

Yes, but only the things that have heat built in. She loves warmth. I have a special cat pad that heats up to her body temp. She is on that ALOT. This other will be by my desk where she like to "help" with the computer. So she can hang with me and be warm at the same time.

It is a very gentle heat, of course.

 

[Mcdevidr]

Hmmm. Maybe I'll try to get one for my cat. My wife and I treat her like a child. We recently moved to a neighborhood with grass and places to walk and she begs us to walk her on a leash all the time. She likes to help me at the computer as well.

 

[Cape Dave]

Hmmm. Maybe I'll try to get one for my cat. My wife and I treat her like a child. We recently moved to a neighborhood with grass and places to walk and she begs us to walk her on a leash all the time. She likes to help me at the computer as well.

Here she is enjoying the pad...

I love this cat as much as people love their kids. I give her a very good life.

 

[cypriot]

I would like to hear your thoughts about imac vs mini as experience point of view. I am between these two and i feel i have long way to decide.

 

[Cape Dave]

I would like to hear your thoughts about imac vs mini as experience point of view. I am between these two and i feel i have long way to decide.

I understand. It is supposed to arrive Monday. I will help if I can. I agonized over the decision.

 

[brdeveloper]

That ~8000 points on Geekbench multi-core is a turn off. I wonder when Apple made a new Mac which does less calculations per second than the previous one.

Well, actually they did it in the eigties and early nineties to offer more affordable Macs, but currenlty this is not the case. The high-end 2014 Mini costs as much as the high-end 2012 Mini.

They have other subtle differences (PCIe x SATA, TB2 x TB1, HD4000 vs HD5000). Actually, the PCIe storage only shines when you put 512GB or more, then you get those near-1GB/s speeds. Otherwise, it's not a big improvement over SATA III.

I think the current high-end Mini can be a great professional file server if you get the biggest SSD you can afford. Get a couple of these Minis (for backup and/or load balancing) and you can setup a scalable Dropbox/Drive/iCloud competitor. It's a nice deal as a device to play with fast I/O.

For multitrack audio work and photo editing, I'd keep the good and upgradeable old 2012 Mini. Hopefully a 2015 version will come with a fast quad-core Broadwell capable of reaching ~13000-15000 points on Geekbench.