January 12th, 2005

As soon as I saw the Mac Mini this morn­ing on Apple’s home page, a thought popped into my head:

“This thing looks like it’s meant not only as a entry level com­puter, but also could be used as a tivo-​style com­puter for your living room”.

It’s got all the built in sup­port that Mac OS has for HD, DVDs, music, photos, etc, and this arti­cle actu­ally takes my thought to another level. All you really need is a com­pos­ite video adapter and an IR reciever (both sold by apple on their web­page) and you have a ~ $500 enter­tain­ment center at your fin­ger­tips. I won’t be buying one for that pur­pose (too poor to be buying any­thing for $500), but you can tell Apple is trying to muscle their way into the “media center” arena of the living room - some­thing they’re been neglect­ing for some time now.

[edit: 1/14 - Here is another arti­cle talk­ing about an upcom­ing hard­ware item that could bridge the gap from Mac Mini to media center heaven.}

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