Keynote 2 Hours Long?

[aswitcher]

Re: Two hour Keynote

My addition for 'Mac World Guess & Tell' would be a 'Core' Mac Mini Media Center , and here is why.

For a number of years the term "media center" has been 'slipped into our brains' and Nobody, to date, has done anything 'big' about it..++= Steve's Keynote is slated for two hours.

Next year (2008) the United States will begin to catch up with Asian and European television resolution. ++= HD2+

Leading up to New Year's day 2007 there were massive sales on what I term as 'entry level wide screen televisions' at very 'low prices'. ++= Cheap 'wide screens'

Based on trends, I asked myself, "What would be perfect for the "Socneter"," (Social Networker) and a vision of "Media Center" appeared.

Here is what the vision provided: Dual or 'low end' quad core Mac Mini, equipped with wireless devices, sitting next to a 'wide screen' television, with an advanced form of "Apple Remote Desktop" sharing that would allow direct streaming of audio (iTunes,etc.), video (? iVideo), email, browsing, data and PPV movies from a desktop connected to the Internet, to the new Mac Mini connected to wide screen TV. Accessories will include a wireless keyboard, remote control, and mouse (mouse and remote may be built into keyboard).

At our house there are two computer rooms, a media room, and a building near the house has another computer room. A media center, as mentioned above, would allow me to carry a wireless keyboard to the media room, and do multiple computer task and other 'things' from ;-) a more comfortable chair.

A number of hypothesized versions of this mythic (joke intended) TV mac have been circulating for these and other reasons.

Key to a good multimedia system though is the hard disk size.

At a minimum people would want 100 GB if they have a decent music and photo library (mine take up about 115GB), probably 150GB if they look to the future 2-3 years. If they do digital video as well make that 250GBs.

Then for downloadable TV and digital tuner HD TV recording you need at least another 100GB (I have a 120GB Standard Def tuner and its always hovering about half full) - because HD recordings chew the GBs up. I think for high def TV you really need 250GB alone

So a good Multimedia Mac in my opinion needs to have a 500GB option.

And with Leopard and Time Machine - and all those precious memories - you need 2 - or at least a big enough second HDD to cover your photos and music.

And with Bootcamp and parallels I think a 40-50GB chunk for Windows OS and Apps somewhere would be a smart move.


I also am thinking more and more that a MMM needs HDMI to work seemlessly with flat screen TVs. DVI is problematic and VGA is a bit old school.


A graphics card wouldn't hurt either so it has good eye candy when showing people your memories.