I'm really happy, that this thread is "out of date" now
Agreed. It's great that Apple finally got off the fence over the mini, and even better that it's still alive.
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Mac Mini to be Discontinued?
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Agreed. It's great that Apple finally got off the fence over the mini, and even better that it's still alive.
The only thing that was keeping me away from the Intel Mini was the suck graphics. I don't understand how they could upgrade everything else from the G4 Mini but go backwards with the graphics. The integrated Radeon 9200 in the G4 Mini I felt was much better than the GMA 950 and even when they were using X3100 in the Macbooks, they still wouldn't upgrade the Mini. If they had went with X3100, I might have even considered buying one then. I guess the requirements for Snow Leopard are forcing them to make changes to the bottom end (Mini and White Macbook) they would rather not make if they had a choice.
I'd take a Mini, but I'm really stuck on the nice all steel tower and it's multi-cored processors.
I have my mini attached to my HDTV. It's great for watching Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, Youtube, all the stations that post full episodes on line and for just plain surfing the web with the advantage of a larger screen. This is my new mini purchased during the summer, my first mini PPC has met its end.
You don't have to use BD, you can pay to download movies or you can use Netflix and use Boxee, or XMBC, etc.
And which of those services will sell or stream me 50 Mbps 1080p BD quality movies, or reimburse me for the $10 per movie that I have to pay for bandwidth charges to download them?
You're making it seem like the Mac Mini is the best for an HTPC, I never said that. I just said it's great.
Netflix streams 720p, iTunes' Movies are 720p. 720p is fine if you like use Netflix and/or buy/rent movies from iTunes.
Therefore it's a great device because 720p is HD.
Agree, the Mini is great because of its form factor. As is typical with Apple it is not EVERYTHING to EVERYONE, but its damn good!
Severely compressed 720p is nowhere close to current technology though, so it sucks compared to what's been standard technology for several years.
Especially if people want to use them as HTPC systems
!Severely compressed 720p is nowhere close to current technology though, so it sucks compared to what's been standard technology for several years.
Especially if people want to use them as HTPC systems
I can tell you have a Windows computer.
Do you know what the Mbps rate is for 1080p movies rented from DirecTV? I've looked but can't seem to find anything recent.
Funny and relevant bump.
Yes, here we were all scared of it being discontinued - now there's talk that it's the MacPro replacement...
LOLOLOLOLOL...
They still sell a bunch of these, and i's basically an air in a simple body. no reason for the mini to die, it doesn't have expensive development costs like the Pro.
Of course you can tell - my computer natively supports BD.
Severely compressed 1080p is not an improvement over severely compressed 720p.
(In fact, if the bitrate is the same, upscaled severely compressed 720p will often look better than severely compressed 1080p.)
I really love the mini...
if apple were to discontinue the pro I wonder if someone could figure out a way to daisy chain mac minis. 5 mac mini servers = 20 cores!!!
if apple were to discontinue the pro I wonder if someone could figure out a way to daisy chain mac minis. 5 mac mini servers = 20 cores!!!