I'm glad I replaced my AppleTV with a Mac Mini when I did.
What do you do for audio from the mini? The AppleTV with its toslink is supposidly able to produce the 5.1 from ripped content....being the mini dosnt have fiber, are you limited to stereo only from the audio out port?
Well I would like to see something like Mac Mini inside a keyboard. It would spare a cable and make the Mac easier to transport. That would probably lead to sacrificing optical drive. But it could be pretty cool for some people to have a notebook without screen and battery that can be attached to 24" at home, 20" in dormitories/in school etc.
I think you're talking about the Amiga 500, or the Commodore 64, no thanks.
What do you do for audio from the mini? The AppleTV with its toslink is supposidly able to produce the 5.1 from ripped content....being the mini dosnt have fiber, are you limited to stereo only from the audio out port?
The Mini does have optical audio out, it is on a 3.5mm plug instead of the square-ish toslink connector.
Well I would like to see something like Mac Mini inside a keyboard. It would spare a cable and make the Mac easier to transport. That would probably lead to sacrificing optical drive. But it could be pretty cool for some people to have a notebook without screen and battery that can be attached to 24" at home, 20" in dormitories/in school etc.
dude what's that you're smoking? i want some of it...
I think you're talking about the Amiga 500, or the Commodore 64, no thanks.
Yes. But i think it could be much smaller these days having the size comparable to the new flat ketboards as there seemed to be some place between desk and the top aluminium plate. Could be enough to put some notebook like stuff inside.
Yes. But i think it could be much smaller these days having the size comparable to the new flat ketboards as there seemed to be some place between desk and the top aluminium plate. Could be enough to put some notebook like stuff inside.
Keep dreaming, the computer you're talking about is 8-10 years away, especially considering how thin keyboards have become - but I don't think it's the kind of thing Apple would make. By then iMac's will be so cheap the Mac mini wont exist, and our keyboards, and tablets will be Multi-touch.
In other ramblings, I feel Apple is going to massively overachieve on Leopard. The final blow, the last nail in the coffin of Vista. muah ha h ah a ha ha h ha One CAT to RULE THEM ALL
In other ramblings, I feel Apple is going to massively overachieve on Leopard. The final blow, the last nail in the coffin of Vista. muah ha h ah a ha ha h ha One CAT to RULE THEM ALL
Most people that use a Windows system don't even know what Leopard is, nor do they care. The two do not compete against each other, Windows can be installed on either, Lepoard can only be installed on Apple hardware, hense it will not go about 5-6% market share and thats if every Mac owner upgrades, which they won't.
For Apple to even compete with anything MS puts out they have to actually make it available to everyone, which will never happen as long as Steve Jobs is around.
As far as expectations they are way too high, there isn't anyting about Leopard that appears to be all that great the exception Time Machine which should have been a feature 10 years ago.
Its new eye candy thats about it. The world isn't redesigned for 139.00.
Let's hope that reports of the Mac mini's death continue to be premature.
I've been waiting for Leopard to get a new Mac, not to decide to stop buying them. If Apple puts me in a position where my only viable option is a beastly $2500+ Mac Pro, I'll switch to Linux thanks.
I see a real problem where they have the water sensor on the iPhone. All you would need is just a tiny bit of water drop in the hole and your warranty is gone. All of the cell phones I've ever seen has the water sensor is a place where a little rain or a drop of water on your hand will not get it wet.
I fear that another law sute is going to happen when Apple refuses to work on a unit because a single drop of water fell in the hole.
If Apple kills the Mini and doesn't replace it with something, they will really be shooting themselves in the foot.
For upgraders and switchers, Apple needs some sort of lower-end machine without a built-in monitor. Ideally I'd like to see a scaled-down Mac Pro mini-tower with a slot or two and space for one or two hard drives. Sell that at $800 and watch their market share rise. Even at $1200 I'd go for it.
But please, Apple, when I replace my G4 desktop within the next year, don't force me to choose between a hard-to-upgrade iMac and ditching a perfectly good monitor, or a $2000+ desktop that's much more than I need!
I suppose the an ultra-portable Mac could replace the mini, and it would have the additional benefit of being... portable.
Come on people. Apple is not coca-cola. They aren't dumb enough to stop selling a good product without a better replacement. They don't want to call it a "mini" anymore. So they won"t. But I bet the replacement will sell if it does what the old one did and more. I'm betting it will beat the mini so bad, that the mini wouldn't sell well as it's competitor ,, so big deal . They discontinued an out dated product. Onward and upward.I said 165 by Halloween. Also said 200 by Christmas. On it's way. YEAH APPLE.
appleinsider has been proclaiming the death of the mini for over a year now.. i'll believe it when i see it. for the harry potter geeks, it's like prof. trelawny constantly announcing harry's imminent doom.
The Mac-In-A-Keyboard thing is actually a cool idea; though I don't think Apple will go for it. There's hip-techno-Steve-Jobs-kind-of-weird and then there's dancing-Japanese-robot-pants-kind-of-weird. When it was all said and done, I have a feeling that the keyboard-mini would fall into that category. Besides, the point of the Mini was to make good use your existing peripherals and monitor. When you start sandwiching those around a CPU, you get a laptop. So, cool as it may appear for the first 10 seconds, it shortly begins to make less and less sense.
As for the Mini + AppleTV, I doubt you'll see a bastardized child of those two either. The AppleTV and Mini are entirely different business units and, while clever hackers have noted the similarities between the two, they remain targeted at different users. I think it's more likely that you'll see a differently form factored Mini (much like described in the nano article at www.macosrumors.com) and an AppleTV with expanded functionality (hopefully in the form of a BluRay drive).
The EMINENT demise of the Mini that AI keeps hawking seems a bit preemptive, as it creates a void in the important low-end consumer niche. It doesn't make a lot of business sense to go racing away from a market where you're making good headway. Apple's simply not going to sell everyone on fugly black iMacs with shiny screens, so unless Mini sales are completely abhorrent, chances are they'll keep a product in that market for as long as makes financial sense.
Keep dreaming, the computer you're talking about is 8-10 years away, especially considering how thin keyboards have become - but I don't think it's the kind of thing Apple would make. By then iMac's will be so cheap the Mac mini wont exist, and our keyboards, and tablets will be Multi-touch.
I too would be skeptical of a computer in a modern sized keyboard. iMac really hasn't been dropping in price, unless you count currency devaluation and occasional price drops on the high end, but the high end seems to dance between $1799 and $1999 anyway. They did offer the $999 model, but that was a blip anyway.
It would be nice to keep some form of a "switcher" machine around. The base mini is about half the price of the base notebook and base iMac. I would not have taken the plunge on the Mac platform except for the fact that the original G4 mini was announced. I've since bought a couple more expensive models.
well, i love my mini. and no matter what it will remain a very good choice for mac users outside US. see, here in brazil an entry level imac costs U$2,100.00 or more...
i'm also going to buy another mini for my office. it's still the same, good. if apple changes it into something better, great!
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I'm glad I replaced my AppleTV with a Mac Mini when I did.
What do you do for audio from the mini? The AppleTV with its toslink is supposidly able to produce the 5.1 from ripped content....being the mini dosnt have fiber, are you limited to stereo only from the audio out port?
Well I would like to see something like Mac Mini inside a keyboard. It would spare a cable
I think you're talking about the Amiga 500, or the Commodore 64, no thanks.
I think you're talking about the Amiga 500, or the Commodore 64, no thanks.
Commodore 64 forever... LOL
I'm glad I replaced my AppleTV with a Mac Mini when I did.
Why, cause the new Mac mini is going to be smaller, better looking, and more powerful?
What do you do for audio from the mini? The AppleTV with its toslink is supposidly able to produce the 5.1 from ripped content....being the mini dosnt have fiber, are you limited to stereo only from the audio out port?
The Mini does have optical audio out, it is on a 3.5mm plug instead of the square-ish toslink connector.
Well I would like to see something like Mac Mini inside a keyboard. It would spare a cable
dude what's that you're smoking? i want some of it...
I think you're talking about the Amiga 500, or the Commodore 64, no thanks.
Yes. But i think it could be much smaller these days having the size comparable to the new flat ketboards as there seemed to be some place between desk and the top aluminium plate. Could be enough to put some notebook like stuff inside.
Yes. But i think it could be much smaller these days having the size comparable to the new flat ketboards as there seemed to be some place between desk and the top aluminium plate. Could be enough to put some notebook like stuff inside.
Keep dreaming, the computer you're talking about is 8-10 years away, especially considering how thin keyboards have become - but I don't think it's the kind of thing Apple would make. By then iMac's will be so cheap the Mac mini wont exist, and our keyboards, and tablets will be Multi-touch.
...I'll switch to Linux thanks...
Yeah, good luck with that...
In other ramblings, I feel Apple is going to massively overachieve on Leopard. The final blow, the last nail in the coffin of Vista.
Yeah, good luck with that...
In other ramblings, I feel Apple is going to massively overachieve on Leopard. The final blow, the last nail in the coffin of Vista.
Most people that use a Windows system don't even know what Leopard is, nor do they care. The two do not compete against each other, Windows can be installed on either, Lepoard can only be installed on Apple hardware, hense it will not go about 5-6% market share and thats if every Mac owner upgrades, which they won't.
For Apple to even compete with anything MS puts out they have to actually make it available to everyone, which will never happen as long as Steve Jobs is around.
As far as expectations they are way too high, there isn't anyting about Leopard that appears to be all that great the exception Time Machine which should have been a feature 10 years ago.
Its new eye candy thats about it. The world isn't redesigned for 139.00.
They're only ending the life of the mac mini now because Leopard will work on "any" new computers like Windows does once it's released! :-P
... it's common sense people.
Someday, something has to change there. think about it.
If you have to tell everyone that something is 'common sense', then it probably isn't.
Let's hope that reports of the Mac mini's death continue to be premature.
I've been waiting for Leopard to get a new Mac, not to decide to stop buying them. If Apple puts me in a position where my only viable option is a beastly $2500+ Mac Pro, I'll switch to Linux thanks.
The iMac might fill that bill.
I fear that another law sute is going to happen when Apple refuses to work on a unit because a single drop of water fell in the hole.
At least on the iPod Touch it's on the bottom.
If Apple kills the Mini and doesn't replace it with something, they will really be shooting themselves in the foot.
For upgraders and switchers, Apple needs some sort of lower-end machine without a built-in monitor. Ideally I'd like to see a scaled-down Mac Pro mini-tower with a slot or two and space for one or two hard drives. Sell that at $800 and watch their market share rise. Even at $1200 I'd go for it.
But please, Apple, when I replace my G4 desktop within the next year, don't force me to choose between a hard-to-upgrade iMac and ditching a perfectly good monitor, or a $2000+ desktop that's much more than I need!
I suppose the an ultra-portable Mac could replace the mini, and it would have the additional benefit of being... portable.
As for the Mini + AppleTV, I doubt you'll see a bastardized child of those two either. The AppleTV and Mini are entirely different business units and, while clever hackers have noted the similarities between the two, they remain targeted at different users. I think it's more likely that you'll see a differently form factored Mini (much like described in the nano article at www.macosrumors.com) and an AppleTV with expanded functionality (hopefully in the form of a BluRay drive).
The EMINENT demise of the Mini that AI keeps hawking seems a bit preemptive, as it creates a void in the important low-end consumer niche. It doesn't make a lot of business sense to go racing away from a market where you're making good headway. Apple's simply not going to sell everyone on fugly black iMacs with shiny screens, so unless Mini sales are completely abhorrent, chances are they'll keep a product in that market for as long as makes financial sense.
Keep dreaming, the computer you're talking about is 8-10 years away, especially considering how thin keyboards have become - but I don't think it's the kind of thing Apple would make. By then iMac's will be so cheap the Mac mini wont exist, and our keyboards, and tablets will be Multi-touch.
I too would be skeptical of a computer in a modern sized keyboard. iMac really hasn't been dropping in price, unless you count currency devaluation and occasional price drops on the high end, but the high end seems to dance between $1799 and $1999 anyway. They did offer the $999 model, but that was a blip anyway.
It would be nice to keep some form of a "switcher" machine around. The base mini is about half the price of the base notebook and base iMac. I would not have taken the plunge on the Mac platform except for the fact that the original G4 mini was announced. I've since bought a couple more expensive models.
i'm also going to buy another mini for my office. it's still the same, good. if apple changes it into something better, great!