"a new line in the sand"
this is insanity.... I know that Apple sets the standard for design and innovation, but this is embarasing for a powerful company like Intel. How do they sleep at night!
Check out the intel mini!!!
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5133/
aaaaahhhhrrrrrgggggg!
Check out the intel mini!!!
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5133/
aaaaahhhhrrrrrgggggg!
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This ultra small computers are a natural progression for home computers.
Apple isn't just the hardware it is the entire package.
Originally posted by mikenap
were there small PC's before the cube???
So, now, it resembles the Cube?
Originally posted by mikenap
this is insanity.... I know that Apple sets the standard for design and innovation, but this is embarasing for a powerful company like Intel. How do they sleep at night!
Check out the intel mini!!!
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5133/
aaaaahhhhrrrrrgggggg!
A really small computer. Who would've thunk it!
And reading the article:
"Intel on Wednesday showed off its living room PC of the future--and it looks a lot like the Mac Mini. [my bold] As part of a speech at the Intel Developer Forum here, Vice President Don MacDonald demonstrated several concept PCs, including the Sleek Concept Entertainment PC--a square, metallic-colored device that was immediately reminiscent of the desktop computer Apple Computer introduced earlier this year," Ina Fried reports for CNET News.
I have concluded that by producing such a blatant rip-off of Apple's Mac mini design, for a product concept labeled "living room PC of the future" Intel is only confirming and validating that the Mac mini will be that living room PC of the future, and the future is here now.
For 90% of home users the Mac mini offers all the power they will likely ever need for the tasks they perform.
"Intels mac mini concept pc"
Apple has once again managed to create a consumer benchmark.
all new mp3 players relaese regardless of the manufacturer always get billed as "xxxxx's answer to the iPod"
Hopefully this is what we will see with every small computer released.
j.
I had a Cube, and it would've made a fine living-room computer if it were less expensive and had a slot on the front instead of the top.
The Mac Mini is not supposed to replace a PowerMac. The Mini's graphics and processor are more than adequate for a living room PC, and for most casual computer users, it's enough for the things they do -- but, as for me, I sure wouldn't want to be stuck with one as my only computer.
Originally posted by hmurchison
I'd say Apple sets the trends for design but I'm not too sure about innovation. I think Apple's drinking a little too much of their own koolaid there.
This ultra small computers are a natural progression for home computers.
This is sort of a yes and no. Apple tends to have the corporate balls to implement brand new technology that the rest of the industry isn't willing to experiment with quite so early in the game. (USB, WiFi, etc) However, I think the last technology Apple actually produced internally was Firewire, which happened a long time ago. As far as Software technology, it's clear that with OS X they borrowed the best ideas from the last 20 years and implemented them, quite like they have done with hardware. I guess Quicktime is the only big, internal development of their's.
Originally posted by mikenap
my question about the cube is not if the new systems resemble the old cube, but if I remember correctly, the small form factor of the cube was a first, noone was making little PC's back then as far as I know.
Actually Steve Job's old company NeXT computer had a cube first.
Corrected article follows:
Intel Flaunts Empty Plastic Case
In a stunning show of shamelessness in the face of a total lack of innovation, Intel today unveiled to a gaggle of gullible corporate lackeys and ass-kissing note-takers their newest product: an empty plastic box. An Intel spokesperson said they hope that some day, someone will build a computer to put in the box. At that point, they hope to load it down with the deeply flawed and customer-hostile Microsoft Windows operating system, thereby releasing misery from the confines of dens and offices and into family rooms worldwide.
Originally posted by nowayout11
Mini computers aren't new concepts. Apple just made it popular.
Making them small, yeah, but how about making them small and sexy? This article kind of proves the point as the mini-cases there are ugly. They are nothing more than shrunken versions of big and ugly cases.