blog.wired.com— Apple will launch an upgrade to its low-end desktop, the Mac mini, at January's Macworld Expo, according to an Apple corporate employee who contacted Wired.com.
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great...the product that, while actually being, like the macbook air, a TRIUMPH in industrial design, no one really cares about. a sub-macbook notebook would be a much more dynamic and innovative offering
@mrBitch...but that does NOT give me all the functionality of the Apple TV...I can't download movies from iTunes to my iPod Touch over WiFi like you can on the Apple TV. I never said you can't output iPod contents to a TV.
@drlha"...the full-sized one has no advantages over the mini version."DisplayPort has audio, mini-DisplayPort does not have audio."..but right now regular DisplayPort is probably more scarce than mini DisplayPort."I can get DisplayPort adapters and cables from many different online retailers right now, and none of them carry anything with a mini-DisplayPort connectors. The only company I've seen so far selling a cable with mini-DisplayPort on it is Apple's own. There are also a handfull of PC video cards out there that have DisplayPort connectors on them.
Apple doesn't want people to know that 90% of the people buying a Mac Pro would be fine with something like a Q9550 or E8500, and that most applications do not scale well above 4 cores.Then again, when you compare the price of a Mac Pro to the rest of the industry spec-for-spec, they can't be making that much of a profit on the thing. They could easily pull off a mid-tower with a greater profit margin.
aserer511Dec 17, 2008
great...the product that, while actually being, like the macbook air, a TRIUMPH in industrial design, no one really cares about. a sub-macbook notebook would be a much more dynamic and innovative offering
Closed AccountDec 17, 2008
@mrBitch...but that does NOT give me all the functionality of the Apple TV...I can't download movies from iTunes to my iPod Touch over WiFi like you can on the Apple TV. I never said you can't output iPod contents to a TV.
tnoyDec 17, 2008
@drlha"...the full-sized one has no advantages over the mini version."DisplayPort has audio, mini-DisplayPort does not have audio."..but right now regular DisplayPort is probably more scarce than mini DisplayPort."I can get DisplayPort adapters and cables from many different online retailers right now, and none of them carry anything with a mini-DisplayPort connectors. The only company I've seen so far selling a cable with mini-DisplayPort on it is Apple's own. There are also a handfull of PC video cards out there that have DisplayPort connectors on them.
tnoyDec 17, 2008
Apple doesn't want people to know that 90% of the people buying a Mac Pro would be fine with something like a Q9550 or E8500, and that most applications do not scale well above 4 cores.Then again, when you compare the price of a Mac Pro to the rest of the industry spec-for-spec, they can't be making that much of a profit on the thing. They could easily pull off a mid-tower with a greater profit margin.
evozeroDec 18, 2008
The fact that they don't offer one is pretty much why I built a pc for osx86.