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Mac mini All About Movies?
bikerguy99 writes "Robert X. Cringely, who had a good nose for the Mac mini from the very beginning, has published another bit of his thoughts on PBS. This time he speculates that Mac mini is all about movies - his thoughts on the subject are quite logical and provide intriguing insights into Apple's interest in producing a cheap headless Mac in the first place."
And why would a mini system need Win XP Pro? Let's not compare apples to oranges here, Win XP Home would work JUST FINE.
I will never give a dime to Microsoft. IMO they don't deserve anyone's money at this juncture.
To me it's really a matter of 'pick your poison':
1) run Linux and spend that extra time tinkering
2) use an illicit copy of XP
3) shell an extra $80 on XP Home or XP Pro academic
4) get a Mac with OSX and bask in the glory of incompatibility
Personally I find 4) to be the most distasteful, followed closely by 3) and then 2). But that's just me.
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Did you not read the parts where I said "only on the Mac?" See, "the Mac" means "computers built by Apple and sold under the brand name 'Macintosh.'" I.e., hardware.
...don't. Because none of it means a single thing.
I know you'd love to make this all about transistors and gates and buses and whatever the hell else you think is oh-so-cool. But see, here's the thing: You can't. Not in any meaningful way, anyhow. Because the most elaborate jim-jam ever concocted isn't worth a hill of beans if it doesn't do anything useful.
It's becoming ever more obvious that if a computer doesn't run Mac OS X and Mac software, it doesn't do anything useful.
So while you'd love to argue the various merits of having this many registers on this many pipelines