[Roders]

They finally updated it. Price is crazy though.

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/15/appl...ew-design/

- 2.4GHz or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- 1.4" thick Unibody enclosure
- NVIDIA GeForce 320M Graphics Card
- Built-in Power Supply
- HDMI port and Mini DisplayPort




EDIT: Oh shit I wrote apple tv by mistake in the title, can this be changed??!! I suck.

[Ilia]

might as well be an apple TV

http://www.apple.com/au/macmini/specs.html

HDMI!! and is as quite and not much taller :> now I just wish I had the $!

[as0l0]

EDIT: Oh shit I wrote apple tv by mistake in the title, can this be changed??!! I suck.

but the mac mini does not. aside from no blu ray, this is far and away the best media playing / server being computer on the planet.

[ewequeone]

I know what's on my wish list for my birthday in 2 months

throw the appletv in the bedroom and the mac mini in the lounge room! woot!

how does that graphics card seem to handle hi-def content (gpu decoding)?

cheers,

Jason.

edit: calling davilla to the thread please, that's mr davilla to the awesome new macmini thread. thank you.

[Jezz_X]

..........EDIT: Oh shit I wrote apple tv by mistake in the title, can this be changed??!! I suck.

fixed it for you

[Angrenost]

799 euro,they are crazy and i am crying!

[reddeath]

It's simply not worth it. You can build a full-blown PC for that money.
I would consider it only if they cut the price by 40% at least.

[mauzzz]

HDMI but no IR receiver. Puzzling.

[reddeath]

HDMI but no IR receiver. Puzzling.

They sell some fancy looking remote as an option, so there must be a receiver built-in, I guess.

I am more curious about the noise and heat of this new model. There would also be a new support needed for XBMC on it, considering that it has HDMI, new graphic card and video acceleration is now available in the OS.

[pin87a]

oooh. I want one.

[davilla]

They sell some fancy looking remote as an option, so there must be a receiver built-in, I guess.

I am more curious about the noise and heat of this new model. There would also be a new support needed for XBMC on it, considering that it has HDMI, new graphic card and video acceleration is now available in the OS.

XBMC for Mac will work on it out of the box

[andy204]

XBMC for Mac will work on it out of the box

ac3 passthrough?

[voip-ninja]

This looks really interesting. How hard is it to get XBMC to launch with a single remote control button on one of these things?

Easy to suspend/shutdown with an IR command?

Expensive as it is this thing is a beast. Should have no issues with XBMC and playback performance assuming that full audio over HDMI is working out of the box.

[RckStr]

im geting two. this thing is bad-ass.

[Philmatic]

It's gorgeous and with that CPU, I don't think you even NEED to use GPU assisted decoding, the CPU could probably do software decoding more reliably and support more formats out the box. GPU assist is still a good idea though, anything that drops the CPU utilization will keep the heat down.

The price is a bit much, I could justify spending that much on it if it had a Blu-Ray drive, but it doesn't and Apple will never put one in their products.

It IS a full blown desktop computer... 2.4GHz C2D, nVidia 320m, 2GB ram and 320GB hard drive? Compare the power utilization of this Mac Mini and your full blown desktop pc and get back to me.