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Mac mini NOT a new idea
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Looks like someone else came up with this a long time ago. And yes, this one comes with a keyboard! 
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Originally posted by Dave N:
Looks like someone else came up with this a long time ago. And yes, this one comes with a keyboard!
Mac mini
That's not a keyboard, that's a number pad. That's probably what killed it. 
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looks like the race is on for the living room PCs
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Has nothing to do with living room PC's ... It's to gain market share from the lowest end of the market.
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Originally posted by ixus_123:
looks like the race is on for the living room PCs
...except that with no tuner, no remote, no PVR software, and no 5.1 sound the Mac Mini isn't even remotely a candidate for a HTPC.
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Join Date: Feb 2000
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Originally posted by chrisutley:
Has nothing to do with living room PC's ... It's to gain market share from the lowest end of the market.
This is also a High End users friend... Have their Dual 2.5 GHz PowerMac with a 30" screen in the office and this beast attached to their TV or stereo...
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Originally posted by deboerjo:
...except that with no tuner, no remote, no PVR software, and no 5.1 sound the Mac Mini isn't even remotely a candidate for a HTPC.
Third-party solutions will give you everything but PVR--which is not a requirement for an HTPC. But I must admit that Apple really should have given us an SPDIF. With that it would have made a decent HTPC right out of the box.
The problem with most HTPCs is that they're LOUD. You have to pay big bucks to get a quiet chassi. In this regard the Mini might excel.
-S
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Originally posted by Sparkletron:
Third-party solutions will give you everything but PVR--which is not a requirement for an HTPC. But I must admit that Apple really should have given us an SPDIF. With that it would have made a decent HTPC right out of the box.
The problem with most HTPCs is that they're LOUD. You have to pay big bucks to get a quiet chassi. In this regard the Mini might excel.
-S
What third party software gives you the "Media server" UI on the Mac mini which consolidates all your images, movies and music. And I'm not talking about the iLIfe apps but something that is optimzed for TV, like the Elgato eyeHome product.
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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Originally posted by ixus_123:
looks like the race is on for the living room PCs
please resist the temptation to turn the Mm into something it is not.
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