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Found Footage: 1942 Philco radio / Mac mini mod
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... , gutted it, added a Mac mini and 17" Sony monitor with touchscreen, and turned it into a classy networked digital media center. ...
Guest Post :: Using Windows on a Mac
The Mac Lawyer —
... I’d recommend looking into getting the Mac Mini if you already have a flat screen and keyboard/mouse devices, Get the bigger one (the bigger Mini), with more memory and better combo-drive. Then, use your own flat screen, and a wireless keyboard/mouse set up –- check out ...
Apple Adds Mac Mini To Retailer's Endangered Species List
iPhone Savior —
... The Mac Mini is currently available for ordering at the Apple store but that too may soon become a thing of the past. Is the Mac Mini really dead? Are hopes of a faster, more muscular Mac Mini refresh turning into seasonal depression? ...
The Case For a Mac Netbook
Technologizer —
... that runs OS X. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Apple products rarely have even a whiff of me-toosim about them; when it responds to industry trends, it usually does so with something that does so in a sideways fashion. Like the Mac Mini, which has very little in common with the low-cost Windows PCs it was originally designed to compete with. Or, for that matter, the iPhone. (Steve Jobs brings up the BlackBerry often enough when discussing the iPhone that it’s clear he thinks of it as a noble competitor, but the iPhone as originally released was sort of an anti-BlackBerry–no keyboard, ...
The perfect external HDD for the Mac mini
The Apple Core —
... Like a lot of people, I have a Mac mini connected to my home entertainment system. It’s great for watching movies, viewing photos and listening to music but the problem is the mini’s anemic hard drive. The Mac mini is only available with a 80, 120 or 160GB hard drive – which is hardly enough space for a serious media center. Previously I used a garden-variety external FireWire drive which worked but was difficult to connect and disconnect because my mini is in pretty tight quarters. miniStack: The perfect external HDD for the Mac mini I’ve been testing ...
Friday Favorite: ShareTool
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... services on a remote machine as if you were still within your home network. It does this over an SSH encrypted connection (and also automatically sets up a proxy for secure web-browsing over the tunnel). Yes, you can get some of these benefits with a simple SSH tunnel, or you could set up a VPN using HamachiX, but the simple fact that ShareTool "Just Works" makes it my favorite choice for everything from screen sharing to iTunes streaming.
I use ShareTool on a Mac Mini, with an Airport Extreme Base Station on a connection that gets about 800k average ...
Mac Sales Down? Hold On Just A Minute!
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek —
... doesn’t account for enterprise sales, which as we all know are, despite being insignificant versus sales of Windows machines, growing. NPD also misses sales outside the U.S. What to expect from Apple? The pressure is on for Apple to announce an inexpensive Netbook-class notebook machine. Perhaps. But remember it just pulled the trigger on its MacBook Air, which is for all intents and purposes its answer to the “ultraportable” category. Expect a Apple to bring new attention on the Mac Mini , Apple’s tiny, no-frills desktop machine which sells for a starting price of $599. It’s ...
Mac mini revision rumored for Macworld Expo
The Apple Core —
... Wired.com to tell them that Apple will release an upgraded Mac mini , at January’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco which starts 5 January 2009. The Mac mini is Apple’s oldest piece of hardware and was last updated in 07 August 2007 – a whopping 498 days (1 year, 4 months, 10 days) from today. In the past, Apple has updated the Mac mini every 188 days on average. Details are somewhat scarce but Wired.com believes the next Mac mini will follow the trends set by Apple’s other recent products: Are you a Mac mini owner? Looking to buy one?
Mac mini refresh, what's new?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... : a surprisingly capable machine in an impossibly small size. There have only been a few major snags for me in the time I've owned Mac minis, and most of those were cleared up this morning. I know some will be disappointed to lose the FireWire 400 port, but I'm ecstatic about the FireWire 800 replacement. Second, I've always had to put a 4-port USB hub on my mini, and really only ever needed one more port ... I'm apparently not alone, as Apple added a fifth USB port as well. ...
Apple releases trio of long-awaited desktops
Infinite Loop —
We were expecting new Mac minis and possibly new iMacs, but Apple has gone ahead and released updates across its entire desktop lineup. The updated Mac mini is just as rumors foretold: Core 2 Duo processors running at 2.0 or 2.26 GHz, NVIDIA 9400M graphics, and 120GB, 250GB, or 320GB 5400 RPM drive options. It also features the same port array as recently leaked photos have shown. Surely there is someone who can explain to us the logic of having both Mini-DisplayPort and Mini-DVI ports—we'll let you know if we can get a statement from Apple. And yes, the Mac mini does in fact ...
What Do You Make Of That New Mini?
Cult of Mac —
... So, what do you make of the updated Mac mini?
I think it remains a very attractive buy, but not to so many people; mainly because it doesn’t feel like the bargain it used to be.
My old G4 mini (now sold off to a happy new owner) was a great machine for the money it cost, and performed very well at every task I asked of it.
It’s the notion of *value* that has defined the mini to date, and that’s the main problem I see with this update. Yes, we all know that Apple doesn’t do cheap machines, but the mini represented excellent value ...
Mac mini Receives Multiple Performance Boosts
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Apple today updated the Mac mini, keeping the form factor of the diminutive desktop Mac the same, but expanding most of the specs in what appears to be a successful effort to keep the Mac mini a compelling low-end desktop machine. ...
Who buys a Mac mini?
The Apple Core —
... Apple on Tuesday updated its $599 Mac mini and said that the box is faster and greener than before — a no brainer since its been ages since the line was refreshed (a year and a half) and this update was something that Mac watchers have fretted over. But what kind of customer buys a Mac mini? I say: Mac and Linux geeks. The common wisdom says that the Mac mini appeals to switchers from Windows. In this model, the customer is totally interested in the entry price of the box. Certainly, with the current economic distress, this price-point consideration must be growing. Still, ...
new Mac mini, the world's most energy efficient desktop
MacCentre701 —
... , includes: energy_efficient_0903.jpg graphics_0903.jpg The new Mac mini is available now. For more detail about the new Mac mini, please refer to www.apple.com/macmini . Apple last updated Mac mini in ...
Apple Still Missing the Mac Mini Opportunity
Cult of Mac —
... On the other hand, Tuesday’s announcements summed up and put the spotlight on the single-greatest opportunity that Apple isn’t capitalizing on right now: making the Mac mini the must-have living room computer of the century. WIth just a few small tweaks, the Mac mini would become the killer digital entertainment product the AppleTV aspires to be. No BluRay. No HDMI. Under-sized hard drive. No plans to offer monthly subscriptions for access to the video library. If the company took care of this stuff, hardware makers and content providers alike would be quaking in ...
Review: Mac mini 2009 edition
Macworld —
... , and that update brought the Mac mini line its most significant upgrades yet. Not-so-mini improvements On the outside, the newest Mac mini models look all but identical to their predecessors, using the exact same aluminum-and-white, 6.5- by 6.5- by 2-inch enclosure. As with previous minis, the computer’s tiny shipping container hints at the lack of included peripherals: you provide the keyboard, mouse, and display. The only items in the box other than the Mac mini itself are the power adapter and cable, a mini-DVI-to-DVI video adapter, software DVDs (for Mac OS X and iLife ...
The Legal Mac :: Apple Refreshes Product Line for Spring
The Mac Lawyer —
... Mac Mini :: This generation of Apple’s smallest desktop still measures 6.5 inches by 6.5 inches by 2 inches, but it now offers up to twice as much memory as the previous generation as well as up to 5x faster graphics performance with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor. Apple reports that the new Mini uses less than 13 watts of power when idle, which it claims is 10 times less power than a typical desktop PC. ...
Apple Customer Satisfaction: It’s the Experience
TheAppleBlog —
... The latest unibody aluminum MacBooks are precision engineered, solid, and feel worth their weight. It’s almost like Apple designs with blinders on, ignoring what everyone else is doing and focusing on what they believe is best. So far, Apple has been very resistant to release a low end computer. Even the tiny Mac Mini is at least twice as expensive as a ...
Apple Introduces New 27″ iMac, MacBook, Mightier Mini, Magic Mouse
The iPhone Blog —
Apple today announced new 21 and 27″ iMacs, a new line of MacBooks, mightier Mac Minis, and a Magic Mouse (with iPhone-like multi-touch).
More as this develops!
This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. Apple Introduces New 27″ iMac, MacBook, Mightier Mini, Magic Mouse
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Apple Introduces New 27″ iMac, MacBook, Mightier Mini, Magic Mouse, Remote
The iPhone Blog —
Apple today announced new 21.5″ and 27″ iMacs, a new line of MacBooks, mightier Mac Minis, and a Magic Mouse (with iPhone-like multi-touch), and new Apple Remote.
The new iMacs [PR link] include cinematic 16×9 displays, quad-core option,
The new MacBooks [PR link] have plastic unibody construction, 7-hour non-changeable batteries, LED backlights, and glass multi-touch trackpads (basically like the pros but without the aluminum)
The new Mac Minis [PR link pending] ...
Maxing Out the Mac mini
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Apple has updated the Mac mini with impressive new specs, and added a new server option that targets small-to-medium-sized businesses (the "SMB" market, as it's called). ...
New iMacs and Magic Mouse Trump Windows 7 Launch
UKMac.net —
In an expceptionally shrewd move Apple today launched a raft of new kit only 2 days before Microsofts release of Windows 7 including new iMacs, a new entry level Macbook, a new multi-touch wireless mouse and redesigned Mac Mini’s including one with Snow Leopard server !
Of most interest to the majority of people will be the Magic Mouse and the astounding new 27″ LED iMac. The Magic Mouse extends Apples multi-touch technology to the mouse, disposing of the roller ball for scrolling in favour of a mouse surface that is a ...
Apple releases new Mac mini and Magic Mouse
MacCentre701 —
... Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed, 1066MHz frontside bus, supports 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory, and two 500GB Serial ATA hard disk drives. However, there's no optical drive. To read optical media, you will need to use a computer (Mac or PC) nearby via Remote Disc or an external optical drive. For more detail about Mac mini, please visit: www.apple.com/macmini . For more detail about Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server, please visit: ...
