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Prediction: Mac mini HD
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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So, Steve's already declared 2005 as "year of high definition". How's that going to play out?
My guess is that we'll see a "special edition" Mac mini, called the Mac mini HD, intended to be connected to high definition TVs and sold as an entertainment hub. It'll have a great big hard drive, Dolby Digital Audio output, video in, and a superior video chip set. Of course, it will include a new DVR iApp for TiVo-like recording.
I'd also bet that at the same event they announce the iTunes Movie Store to download/rent movies (using Tiger's H.264 codec and QuickTime 7) and the iPod video for watching movies and TV shows on the road.
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[off topic] "wanna get high?"[/off topic]
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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And where, pray tell, will the huge hard disk fit? There's no spare room in a Mac mini, and 2.5" hard disks only go to 100GB at this point -- not enough for a serious DVR.
tooki
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio :(
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Originally posted by tooki:
And where, pray tell, will the huge hard disk fit? There's no spare room in a Mac mini, and 2.5" hard disks only go to 100GB at this point -- not enough for a serious DVR.
tooki
it'll come with a 2TB LaCie external drive and cost as much as a top of the line Powermac
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(Powermac) 2x 2.0Ghz / 2560MB DDR400 / Radeon x800xt / 2x 36GB Raptors (Raid 0)
20" Apple Cinema Display
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make it 1.5" taller and stuff a 300GB SATA drive in it.
Oh, and charge $1000 for the base model.
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eMac 1.25GHz | 1.5GB PC2700 | 250GB Maxtor HDD | 8x LiteOn DVD+-RW
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