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Mac Mini vs. Media Center

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ding-ding dept.

An anonymous reader writes "C|Net is pitting the new Intel Core Duo Mac Mini against Microsoft Media Center. The first round of the fight concludes: 'The Mac Mini automatically recognised the LCD TV we're using, and the third-party tuner was similarly straightforward to set up. Compared to the hours we've spent coaxing similar results out of a Microsoft Media Center system, the Mini is definitely ahead so far.'"

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  1. My XBox is *still* better by Balthisar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My hacked, Xbox that is. I'm a Mac owner, and a proud one at at. I tell most people I know that ask for advice to get a Mac (they're not computer geeks, or they'd not be asking me for advice, you see). I was seriously consider an Intel Mini core duo to replace my QuickSilver, but I think I'll wait and see what the new PowerMac replacement has to offer first.

    So despite all of that, my hacked Xbox with XBMC is bounds and bound beyond what the Mini can do. *Maybe* the only advantage I can see for the Mini is a local PVR connection. Poor me is relegated to using a five-tuner Knoppmyth box on the backend and using xbmcmythtv on the Xbox. Okay, maybe the Mini can do HD; that's not a concern for me (yet).

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    --Jim (me)
  2. I don't get it... by im_thatoneguy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just don't understand where CNet is running into challenges. The process for hooking up my HDTV to my ATI RADEON:

    1)Attach component adapter to DVI port.
    2)Plug in TV.
    3)Change channel on TV to component input.

    How could they f*** that up? Mind you, things used to be a real chore about 10 years ago. I haven't run into a modern driver suite, that doesn't "just work".

    I won't even touch the gross genealizations about an entire market of computers made in the first paragraph.