Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini

[Chad Leigh]

On May 24, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Roland Torres wrote:

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

Can't hurt to give them more feedback

Chad

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