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Mac mini as Embedded Development Platform

Posted by timothy on from the one-for-each-passenger-in-my-car dept.

Ohreally_factor writes "Peter Seebach has written a paper over at IBM developerWorks on the potential use of the Mac mini as a high-end embedded development board. Quote from the article: 'Comparing it to other embedded systems, you'll find that it's not much bigger, and it's smaller than some. It has a broader array of connectors, a faster processor, support for a very large amount of memory, and comes with self-hosted development tools. In short, if you look at it as an embedded development platform, it's a competitive one.'"

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  1. How does it go again... by iluvcapra · · Score: 5, Funny

    No 9 pin, less space than a Cappucino. Lame. :)

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  2. that would make it by b17bmbr · · Score: 3, Funny

    the world's biggest wristwatch

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  3. Re:OS X "Lite" by Frodo+Crockett · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the frack is a MiniMac ? This reminds of people who say "American Online" instead of America Online ...

    That's not so bad. I work in retail, and I have to put up with people who say "98 Windows" on a regular basis. Also note that "Lexmark" is frequently mis-pronounced as "Lensmark", "Lamar", and, inexplicably, "Linux". Were it not for my Jedi training, I fear I might do something rather violent to these people.

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