Mac Mini as DVR
Yahoo! News - Update: Apple ups the ante with Mac mini, iPod, and Xsan
The $499 Mac Mini, on display last week at CES promises to be the new multimedia hub of your living room.
Tricked out with accessories that are on the Macworld Expo show floor now, Mac mini is a DVR (think TiVo (news - web sites)) without capacity limits, intrusive advertising, or phone-home reporting of users' viewing habits. It's a Playstation with a hard drive, USB, FireWire, Ethernet, expandable memory, a keyboard, and a mouse. Mac mini burns CDs, plays DVDs, and puts out composite, S-Video, VGA, or DVI (LCD flat panel) video. QuickTime 7 does that HD playback and editing thing, and the system's performance is on par with Apple's newest PowerBooks. It really is everything other Macs are, just smaller.Get the full story Yahoo! News - Update: Apple ups the ante with Mac mini, iPod, and Xsan.
