Tuesday's "Mac" announcement?

[Ashley Aitken]

Hi Kevin (et al.),

On 08/08/2007, at 1:15 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> On Aug 7, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>
>> Yep, Mac mini lives!
>
> well .. you have to admit, it was a less than stellar upgrade

Yes, I agree.

But I think we all know the Mac mini is currently Apple's low-price  
point offering, hence only yearly and minimal upgrade.  It's just to  
get people in the stores and up-sell to an iMac (by the time you add  
on a screen and a keyboard and mouse ... you might as well get an  
iMac ... and, btw, it's a helluva lot faster as well).

> i won't be buying one as a media center (as my friends/family  
> members who thought they would won't as well)

May I ask why not?

It should do HD fine (apparently).  It doesn't have wireless N, but  
then a media centre would usually be close to wires anyway.

It's not good for FPS games, but then that's not the function of a  
media centre.

It's a bit much to ask (not you, but generally speaking) for Apple to  
put a Blueray drive in a Mac mini when they don't even offer them in  
the desktop machines.

That said, there's Firewire and USB2 so plenty of room for external  
hard or optical drives.

Even Elgato Eye-TV or similar if you want to record FTA.

What I would really like is for Front Row X.0 to do the equivalent of  
AppleTV on the Mac mini.  That way the Mac mini could grow into an  
AppleTV media centre.

>> Who were those pessimists writing it off ... ;-)
>
> I'm writing it off.

You're wrong then (currently ;-).

Cheers,
Ashley.