Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini

[Roland Torres]

On May 24, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Chad Leigh wrote:

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> On May 24, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Roland Torres wrote:
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>> On May 24, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
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>>> <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/05/24/ 
>>> closing_the_book_on_apples_mac_mini.html>
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>> NO! SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!
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>> 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...
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> 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

Apple knows. Just type "darpa grand challenge mac mini" into Google.
Apple, if you kill the mini, *replace it with something*!!

Roland