Apple Mac mini MC238LL/A Desktop Review
Apple Mac mini MC238LL/A Desktop Review from Richard J Lawler. Makes a great media center, I attached the mini to my HDTV (using mini-DVI to HDMI cable) and an optical digital audio cable. Picture and audio are perfect. It’s great.
Let’s start with the basics. It’s whisper quite, and it uses about as much power as fluorescent light bulb when idle.
I can watch or listen to anything in iTunes using an IR remote (I use a “Logitech Harmony XBox 360″ remote) via the built-in Apple Frontrow software or using Apple’s magical Remote app for the iPhone (or iPod touch).
Or I can control the mini media center from my laptop across the room using Mac “Screen Sharing” (or VNC on any PC) to watch any video or audio source from the internet (Hulu, Silverlight, Flash, Amazon VOD, Netflix VOD etc.) or use the Apple DVD Player to play VIDEO_TS folders. (Please respect filmmakers and don’t pirate movies.) You can watch what ever you want. You name it.
Although it’s an option, it really doesn’t even need a dedicated keyboard and mouse.
Other non-computer media boxes that are available can only play a fixed set of sources — e.g. iTunes and YouTube (AppleTV). Netflix or Amazon VOD (Roku) or ripped or downloaded video files (WDTV). Support for anything outside of what those devices do today is just a wishing game or requires a lot of painstaking media format conversion.
The mini as a media center is pretty much obsolescence-proof. So while it may seem a lot more expensive than something like WDTV today, I’ll bet I’ll still be using the mini media center long after that WDTV has joined the pile at the back of the closet.
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