engadget.com— I think lots of folks feel that their time was wasted in looking forward to fun new stuff from Apple. Engadget bloggers are blasting this new device from our friends in white.
Feb 28, 2006View in Crawl 4
"Apple jumped the shark."Agreed. I thought the Hi-Fi would at least integrate Airport Express and Air Tunes, thus eliminating the need for an additional hardware. As it stands, it's just a boom box with a dock. Yeah, the Mini is cool looking but as I've stated elsewhere it's way overpriced for a budget PC. Some people say that integrated graphics are a plus...better than the old ATI stuff. I say that's a sad commentary. Apple should do better than Intel graphics and Mac buyers should expect it!Apple should refer to the rumor sites to determine what people actually want. As I see it, Apple ran out of creativity. Their second window is closing.
it was just the journalists and mac fanboys and girls who built up the event for weeks that caused the dissapointment. Its not apples fault. a movie store is too big an endeavour to pull together in a few months, as is a video ipod
"This whole fiasco reeks of "cube" and "mighty mouse"."The cube is what they should have done*. Shoving the mac mini into the slightly bigger cube-style case would have given enough space for a bigger (and cheaper) 3.5"HD and an empty PCI express slot. Everything else could have stayed the same. Same cost to Apple to build, but users would currently be druelling over what 3D/DVR/TVtuner card they could shove in. (There's nothing wrong with a $4 integrated graphics chip if you have the option to shove in something better when you need it. Being told your machine just won't handle some new (or existing) game when you know you just need a cheap $60 ATi card bites).(*the cube failed because it was overpriced, not because of the design)
sych0Feb 28, 2006
Ya, I was kind of bummed too. Guess we gotta keep waiting
maxdraxMar 1, 2006
"Apple jumped the shark."Agreed. I thought the Hi-Fi would at least integrate Airport Express and Air Tunes, thus eliminating the need for an additional hardware. As it stands, it's just a boom box with a dock. Yeah, the Mini is cool looking but as I've stated elsewhere it's way overpriced for a budget PC. Some people say that integrated graphics are a plus...better than the old ATI stuff. I say that's a sad commentary. Apple should do better than Intel graphics and Mac buyers should expect it!Apple should refer to the rumor sites to determine what people actually want. As I see it, Apple ran out of creativity. Their second window is closing.
cantaclaroMar 1, 2006
APRILTON!!!
usermike2098Mar 1, 2006
it was just the journalists and mac fanboys and girls who built up the event for weeks that caused the dissapointment. Its not apples fault. a movie store is too big an endeavour to pull together in a few months, as is a video ipod
rajioMar 1, 2006
Folks NOT SO Impressed WITH ranDOM CapitaLizatION and eDITORIALIZATion IN post HEADlineS
jothamMar 1, 2006
"This whole fiasco reeks of "cube" and "mighty mouse"."The cube is what they should have done*. Shoving the mac mini into the slightly bigger cube-style case would have given enough space for a bigger (and cheaper) 3.5"HD and an empty PCI express slot. Everything else could have stayed the same. Same cost to Apple to build, but users would currently be druelling over what 3D/DVR/TVtuner card they could shove in. (There's nothing wrong with a $4 integrated graphics chip if you have the option to shove in something better when you need it. Being told your machine just won't handle some new (or existing) game when you know you just need a cheap $60 ATi card bites).(*the cube failed because it was overpriced, not because of the design)
sfieldsMar 1, 2006
My first thought was,"That's it?"