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Mac Mini to Launch at Macworld San Francisco?

Trishul said:
What stops most people switching to Macs?

PRICE PRICE PRICE.

Over the last year or so, pretty much everyone i know wants to switch, but i can't recommend anything to them that at the end of the day can't be done half the price cheaper by a windows based computer
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Agreed.

All i've seen discussed here is Firewire, 3.5" hard drives and display port !! People are forgetting one of the most important things about any new Mini, it's price.

Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised to see £100 price increases from where prices currently stand (£399 & £499)
 
Mini Eco-system

VoR said:
That's basically what he said? The mini is limited to a slow laptop drive. Put any same drive in a FW enclosure and you're going to suffer slight latency and bandwith limitations (certainly with fw400) compared to the same drive on an internal/external sata port.
You can't really find any modern computer without a chipset full of sata connections, I doubt apple will, but I think it would be silly not to give the mini a nice selection of internal and external ports. A nice proprietary stacking port and enclosure system would do well for the 'all in one' rumours people were talking about, and give the uninformed fans a reason to shout "innovation!"
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Great idea. Build a Mac Mini eco system with a variety of different add-on units.

DVD/Super Drive
eSATA enclosure
FireWire add-on
Eventually Blu-Ray

Think of it as Lego - all through a common proprietary connection. Would really hit the mark for a home media server - as adding the right components would make it customizable (but in Apples simple way).

There again, maybe I drank too much champagne last night.
 
Bubba Satori said:
My store's BD player sales are up 300% this year. The Sonys and Samsungs are impossible to keep in stock. My customers must not be listening to you.
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The players are likely only selling better because the price has dropped dramatically and the're still backwards compatible with DVDs and CDs, not because of Blu-ray's popularity (and 2007 sales were probably pretty easy to beat). In fact if it wasn't included in the PS3, I doubt it would even have the traction it does.

It will eventually become the standard for physical discs, but not at the rate the industry hoped for, and due more to attrition than overwhelming consumer demand. Having said that though - just like with music, the movie industry will be forced to deal with the fact that download distribution is the new world order - it may take a bit longer due to the higher consumer bandwidth needed, but it will happen.

Physical media is dead, it just doesn't know it's been shot yet :cool:
 
You really think no iPhone nano huh? It may not be a smaller version like the iPod nano is to the iPod but there very well could be a iPhone with less features plus there are continual rumors though I'm surprised I haven't seen leaked photos they usually show up around this time.
 
colinmack said:
Physical media is dead, it just doesn't know it's been shot yet :cool:
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"Doomed" perhaps - but so are you and me. Any media format has a certain lifetime.

BD will be around and healthy for quite some time. And it's possible that it will be replaced by another physical format instead of downloads.

Once everyone has has 50 Mbps download speeds, BD disks won't be needed. But by the time that happens, we may have switched to 4K televisions, and need 250 Mbps delivery.
 
my idea

This is my idea Mac mini.

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M4t3o said:
This is my idea Mac mini.
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Looks sharp!

I'd likely pick one up, but I'd love there to be a easy access panel to the RAM and HDD, like the MacBook.

I have a 320GB HDD in my current Mini, I could live with the 160GB, I'd like to be able to pop in a new 320GB or 500GB without as much of a hassle.
And I'd really be hard pressed to do with out FW 400...my external HDD would take a hit on usage/speed...w/o FW 400, I might not upgrade.
 
no power symbol on the front. I also wouldn't mind if it was without the ODD. But I don't really think that will happen, the power indicator would be like the time machine, minor little changes, but probably close to what it could be.
 
On front panel is on/off button, button works on the principle of flying contact, not to insert the classic button. Similar button is PS3.


My english is not good, I live in Czech Republic.
 
all I have to say is it'd better had FW. the minis line has traditionally had sub-par hdd's, prompting customers into external territories.
 
i think your design idea fits...thought i'd help you out and put it next to a ACD
 

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I think Apple may have decided to upscale the mini somewhat now that they have a nice 24" LCD monitor to sell with it. They are giving the consumer the choice of imac with 24" screen or mini and separate monitor for the same kind of cost.
 
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