Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Updated Mac Mini Aims For the Living Room

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the need-a-review-unit dept.

WrongSizeGlass noted that besides the pre-order of the new iPhone appearing on the Apple store today, Apple has revved the Mac Mini and started selling those too. "PC World is reporting on the latest version of Apple's Mac Mini. At only 1.4-inches tall the unibody aluminium enclosure includes an HDMI port, an SD card reader, and more graphics and processing power. Even the power supply is inside now. The base model comes with 2.4-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard disk — for $699. Graphics power comes from an NVIDIA GeForce 320M GPU (as found in lower-end MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops). Apple appears to be aiming for living rooms by including the HDMI port and eliminating the external power brick."

4 of 638 comments (clear)

  1. Expensive by nyctopterus · · Score: 1, Troll

    Buy it with a screen and a keyboard ant it will cost you more that a 27" iMac with a quad Core i7.

    1. Re:Expensive by Myopic · · Score: 1, Troll

      Uh... yeah... it's aimed at people in the 21st century. We've all had USB peripherals for longer than there has been a War on Terror. What, are you still clinging to parallel cables or something? Maybe a token ring network? Are you angry that the Mac Mini won't work with your 2400 baud modem? Or is it that you can't buy new gear from your Compuserv account? maybe you insist on using the "real" name for the Internet: ARPA Net? Did you lose trick of computing after keyboards replaced dip switches? Do you rant about how bloated operating systems got after you upgraded from 4 to 8 megs of memory?

    2. Re:Expensive by horza · · Score: 1, Troll

      Silly question, but rather than throw out the whole computer why not just install Ubuntu on it? All the same benefits for free. And more environmentally friendly.

      Phillip.

      --
      Property for sale in Nice, France
  2. Dear Sirs by Brett+Buck · · Score: 1, Troll

    I would like to protest, in the strongest possible terms, the appearance of several non-Apple-related stories on the Slashdot front page. In reviewing, I can currently see 5 stories that don't mention Apple Computer company, Steve Jobs, the iPad, or the iphone in any way whatsoever . Please correct forthwitih.

          p.s. I am not a nut.