Mini Macs a reality!!!!!

[RolandTGunner]

Roland was wrong! And he's glad he was!

http://images.apple.com/macmini/images/indextop20050111.jpg

The Mini Mac! (http://www.apple.com/macmini/)

ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of DDR SDRAM with AGP 4X support -- No Games for you! :(

Oh yeah new iPod too!
http://images.apple.com/ipodshuffle/images/indexwithgum20050111.jpg

iPod Shuffle (http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/)

[FinalDream]

Two interesting looking devices. I would like to read more but apple is getting swamped.

[Angry Kid]

HTMAC?

http://images.apple.com/macmini/images/indextop20050111.jpg

And :lol:

"1. Music capacity is based on 4 minutes per song and 128Kbps AAC encoding.
2. Do not eat iPod shuffle
3. ....
"

[Demonite]

and what purpose does the mini mac serve apart from looking unbelievably pretty? :?

iPod shuffle: a new gimmick to keep the iPod dreams alive. Basically, buy a Creative MP3 Player... :roll:

[Angry Kid]

HTMAC?

http://images.apple.com/macmini/images/indextop20050111.jpg

And :lol:

"1. Music capacity is based on 4 minutes per song and 128Kbps AAC encoding.
2. Do not eat iPod shuffle
3. ....
"

It's half a cube. You will buy a cube shaped computer! You will!
$499 wouldn't be bad for an HTPC. Sry - HTMAC.

If only they had some good multi-media software . . . :swg:

[batmanuel]

Pretty cool... not sure i need one for anything, but pretty cool nonetheless. Once again Apple comes up with some slick designs.

[Vygramul]

and what purpose does the mini mac serve apart from looking unbelievably pretty? :?

iPod shuffle: a new gimmick to keep the iPod dreams alive. Basically, buy a Creative MP3 Player... :roll:

You make it sound like the iPod is in trouble rather than being one of the most successful computer products ever.

[FinalDream]

Does anyone else look at the mini mac and think cluster? My apple orchard pwns yours :P

[Demonite]

and what purpose does the mini mac serve apart from looking unbelievably pretty? :?

iPod shuffle: a new gimmick to keep the iPod dreams alive. Basically, buy a Creative MP3 Player... :roll:

You make it sound like the iPod is in trouble rather than being one of the most successful computer products ever.

LOL, I had one but I gotta say I wasn't impressed. It's a lot of hype in my opinion, it's cool to be seen with one so you gotta get one even though the battery life sucks, the capacities are inferior, the prices are ridiculous and there are so many rumours (which I don't personally believe) floating over it. Now I got a lovely Creative Zen Xtra 60GB. It's not as compact or as sexy as the iPod but I prefer it. I end up charging it once a week now instead of once a day as I did with my iPod.

[Vygramul]

How early a model did you have? I'm not very impressed with just about ANY mp3 player, but I gotta say the iPod doesn't seem any worse than the others. Of course, I don't need music constantly beamed into my brain. It's called, "thinking," and some of the kids in my Chem class should have looked into it before accepting admissions at GW.

[Angry Kid]

HTMAC?

And :lol:

"1. Music capacity is based on 4 minutes per song and 128Kbps AAC encoding.
2. Do not eat iPod shuffle
3. ....
"

4. Do not make Happy Fun Pod unhappy...

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So I wanna know if the MiniMac will run OSX Server..... Open it up, pop in a giant HD and away we go!

bwaaah-haaaa ** snort gurgle ** haaaa!!!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

hooo - them Japanese is funny.

[WaHoo]

Even though it looks nice, I think it's kinda a step backwards for Apple. I really liked what the did with the imac, integrating components to reduce the mess on the desk. I wish Apple would go this route (http://www.directron.com/zpc2021.html) and make it look a little bit better.... Seeing the tiny size of this new thing, I could also imagine having it as some sort of "snap-on" module to attach it to the monitor - with keyboard and mouse being wireless and thus allowing for them to be moved out of the way in an instant...

EDIT: After finally getting to the Apple site, I happened to find where this little thing would fit in perfectly:
Perfect for Programmers

Set a space-saving Mac mini atop your workstation PC and add a KVM switch to share keyboard, monitor and mouse.

I don't know where it's CPU ranks, but being able to do all photoshopping and whatnot on the Apple while still having a Wintel system for everything Apple (-software) can't seem to catch up with WITHOUT the need for 2 big huge cases doesn't sound too bad.

[Vygramul]

The Apple mini is the perfect stealth machine. I hear Apple is working on a wireless monitor. If that's true, then you could simply put an LCD and bluetooth keyboard and moust in your living room for those IMDB lookups while watching DVD's... or for TrackPass.

[batmanuel]

The Apple mini is the perfect stealth machine. I hear Apple is working on a wireless monitor. If that's true, then you could simply put an LCD and bluetooth keyboard and moust in your living room for those IMDB lookups while watching DVD's... or for TrackPass.

I've heard that too, about the monitor... pretty cool.

[ignus]

dayumn! suck it! i win! i win!

that being said, when i go purchase my iPod, i may as well end up w/ a Mini Mac too :D

[LionRampant]

i may as well end up w/ a Mini Mac too :D
You received your Christmas bonus from 2002 then?

[batmanuel]

hack your ipod into a shuffle:
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/ipod/howto-hack-ipod-into-ipod-shuffle-029509.php

[Demonite]

hack your ipod into a shuffle:
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/ipod/howto-hack-ipod-into-ipod-shuffle-029509.php

LMFAO! Nice call Bat. I was going to ask wtf the point would be in doing that until I clicked the link :roll:

[ignus]

does anyone else sense a Mini Cooper + Mac Mini combination of some sort in the near future? if nothing else than in my own Mini Cooper once i finally get a decent job ;)

[Vygramul]

Even with only an 80 GB drive, it would be a pretty darn nice home mail server.

[ignus]

Some pics of the Mac Mini's tiny motherboard. (http://www.macnews.de/gallery/displayimage.php?album=16&pos=18)

Seems like you could install one of these in your car pretty easily.

now i understand the single ram slot and need for laptop hdd 8O

sweet looking though... about time they start utilizing both sides of the circuit board