Re: 5 Things AppleTV needs to be a MUST BUY by Apple Gazette

[Matt Johnston]

On 8 Apr 2007, at 00:14, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> I'm holding out for an updated mini (been waiting since Fall - LOL!)

Sales of the Mini have been poor so while I think its demise is not  
yet upon us, it's usefulness is a question.

The movement of other lines to Core 2 have been justified in terms of  
processing speeds, power savings and 802.11n (which is a chipset  
thing). Mini is not designed to address these markets.

Apple's strategy is clear here. Transition everyone who would have  
bought a mini as a media centre to an Apple TV. Get them to encode  
their assets in iTunes compatible formats and no-one then needs to  
hack the AppleTV.

That said if they replaced the current mini with a bookcase edition  
Mac mini which had one PCI-express slot for your choice (quad  
ethernet? kick-ass graphics card?) as well as the usual GigE, USB,  
FW, DVI with integrated graphics

so...