Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini

[Kevin Callahan]

On May 24, 2007, at 11:13 PM, Jesús Díaz Blanco wrote:

> Alternatively, and before getting further carried away, we can  
> think that 1) Kasper Jade is full of crap, 2) like all rumor sites,  
> AppleInsider gets it wrong most of the time and 3) their only  
> objective is to get traffic.
>
> So what about waiting for official news before getting panicky?  
> Remember how many times they killed the CRT eMac?
>
> Geezuss...
>
> j.

do you expect a Core 2 duo Mini with an improved graphics card, N- 
support, better hard drive, etc?



>
> On May 25, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Roland Torres wrote:
>
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>> On May 24, 2007, at 2:46 PM, LuKreme wrote:
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>>> 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