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Accessories for Mac mini

pentae writes "BYODKM are featuring some of the first in line to serve up Mac mini accessories. Exactly how much market share will this buy Apple once the affordable, stylish Mac steals the Windows users who love their iPod?"

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  1. Re:Computers, or fashion items? by remahl · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read the review from AnandTech. It is very comprehensive (18 pages!) and doesn't fail to point out the design features Apple put in to enhance the user experience. Nor does it fail to hilight the weak points of the design.

    In my experience, it is very rarely "form over function" with Apple, it's function intersecting form.

  2. Better link. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    BYODKM is slow ... try...

    http://www.plasticsmith.com/

  3. Re:Stealing Windows customers? by evand · · Score: 4, Informative
    Since no apps that run on 9x\nt\xp\etc will run on Longhorn, I think Microsoft are going to really start to lose market share in everything.
    From Microsoft's Longhorn Developer FAQ:

    Will my existing Win32 and .NET apps continue to run under Longhorn without modification?

    The goal is that apps written against the documented Win32 APIs and the .NET Framework will absolutely run well without any modifications under Longhorn when it ships.

  4. Re:Can we run C++ on a Mac by remahl · · Score: 4, Informative

    Of course you can run C++ on a Mac.

    The compiler Apple ships with its IDE (Xcode) is gcc and it naturally supports C++. A lot of Mac software is written in C++ (most Carbon applications). You can also mix C++ with Objective-C and Cocoa (ObjC++).

    Oracle does have products for the Mac (though I doubt you'll run them on the Mac mini). I don't know what D2K is.

  5. EyeTV 500 by nsayer · · Score: 4, Informative
    I've got an El Gato EyeTV 500 attached to our mini, and it works perfectly. It's the "maxi" (1.42GHz) mini, so I'm not sure if the cheaper one has enough CPU, but the maxi is routinely displaying 720p on our TV, and in my experiments (our TV won't anti-overscan the picture at 1080i, and the native resolution is 720p anyway) it appears to be able to do 1080i without using all of the CPU as well.

    The combination of the mini and the EyeTV 500 makes for a great HTPC, at least for digital over-the-air TV (and unencrypted QAM digital TV over cable).

  6. Re:Overpriced Keyboard by jxyama · · Score: 5, Informative

    it's got an USB hub built in too. a nice touch, esp. with the proliferation of keychain memories.