Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini

[Chad Leigh]

On May 24, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Roland Torres wrote:

>
> On May 24, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>
>> <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/05/24/ 
>> closing_the_book_on_apples_mac_mini.html>
>
> NO! SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!
>
> Wow, guys in the robotics labs here are really bummed. The minis  
> (or "bricks" as we call them) were the hot ticket to embedding the  
> full power of OSX in autonomous vehicles, rovers, and sensor web  
> hubs. They're in use all over (with external battery packs). But if  
> they're gone... what's to replace 'em? iPhone's underpowered/ 
> incorrectly configured, and there's no Mac PDA. The rumoured Mac  
> sub-notebook, not "due" till December or so? Ugh.
>
> Guess we'd better buy up all the bricks we can to last us...


Get your robotics guys to get feedback to their Apple rep and/or to  
Apple somehow.  Maybe make a movie and upload it to YouTube of a  
great robot running on OS X with a mini driving it and lamenting that  
this means you have to move to Windows or something :-)  A little  
viral guerrilla campaign or something

I too am bummed.

Chad