Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini

[Roland Torres]

On May 24, 2007, at 2:46 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> On 24-May-2007, at 14:57, Roland Torres wrote:
>> But if they're gone... what's to replace 'em?
>
> Apple TV, which is quite capable or running OS X, albeit  
> unsupported for that task.  Shouldn't be an issue for the robotics  
> lab though...

The consensus here is that Apple TV is an interesting device to  
hijack, but it truly is a brick: it utilizes a 1.0GHz Pentium M-based  
chip under-clocked to run on a 350MHz bus. Way, way too slow for any  
but the most mundane realtime processing applications. Even the  
1.83GHz Core Duo mini is at the bottom range of usability: slow but  
just barely within range for most embedded analysis applications.

Roland