What are you really going to do with a Mac Mini? Chances are that you will simply read a book, or maybe watch a movie on the car/bus/plane. At this size, the odds of authoring email or doing a substancial amount of web surfing is probably not going to happen. This sort of activity would happen far more on a larger size screen - such as the full sized iPad.
Thus, for the market segment that the Mac Mini is offered at, I believe it is over-priced - and that the bang for the buck is truly in Amazon's court. It's simply a matter of chosing the right tool for the right job. For movies - it's passable, for books - more so. But, for anything productive - it's simply too small.
Right now,I use either my Touch or iPad to select the music in my iTunes library that I want to play through the Airport Express that's hooked up to my stereo. (I also have another Airport Express hooked up to the transmitter of my wireless headphones.) The Touch is too small and the iPad is too heavy. The iPad Mini is probably going to be the right size and weight. With Airplay I can select the video to send to my TV that is hooked up to an Apple TV. Add a WiFi IR blaster and this iPad mini becomes the ultimate universal remote control. Controlling both media and hardware from a single device that can easily be held with one hand while using the other to select the inputs on a custom, easy to read, touch screen.
Gizmodo - the site that knowingly and illegally held a stolen iPhone prototype and was prosecuted for same offense and has since been banned from Apple announcement events has come out against a clearly superior Apple product? What a surprise!
I wish apple would ban engadget. that site is a circle-jerk of android fanboys. the editors can't write an article about or mentioning apple without a ton of snark. they are self-proclaimed android fanboys. it's not good for apple to let them in.
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Originally Posted by Hodar
What are you really going to do with a Mac Mini? Chances are that you will simply read a book, or maybe watch a movie on the car/bus/plane. At this size, the odds of authoring email or doing a substancial amount of web surfing is probably not going to happen. This sort of activity would happen far more on a larger size screen - such as the full sized iPad.
Thus, for the market segment that the Mac Mini is offered at, I believe it is over-priced - and that the bang for the buck is truly in Amazon's court. It's simply a matter of chosing the right tool for the right job. For movies - it's passable, for books - more so. But, for anything productive - it's simply too small.
Right now,I use either my Touch or iPad to select the music in my iTunes library that I want to play through the Airport Express that's hooked up to my stereo. (I also have another Airport Express hooked up to the transmitter of my wireless headphones.) The Touch is too small and the iPad is too heavy. The iPad Mini is probably going to be the right size and weight. With Airplay I can select the video to send to my TV that is hooked up to an Apple TV. Add a WiFi IR blaster and this iPad mini becomes the ultimate universal remote control. Controlling both media and hardware from a single device that can easily be held with one hand while using the other to select the inputs on a custom, easy to read, touch screen.
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Originally Posted by FreeRange
Gizmodo - the site that knowingly and illegally held a stolen iPhone prototype and was prosecuted for same offense and has since been banned from Apple announcement events has come out against a clearly superior Apple product? What a surprise!
I wish apple would ban engadget. that site is a circle-jerk of android fanboys. the editors can't write an article about or mentioning apple without a ton of snark. they are self-proclaimed android fanboys. it's not good for apple to let them in.