Feh, the product page is useless... Anyone have specs on it?

Get the VGA Silencer Rev. 3 instead. It's a bit quieter, AFAIK.

If you get into how Apple does business,... well, there's a reason I quit after 4 months on the job. And I think the market is a better judge of business practices than me. Hmmm, I haven't heard... What'd they do? btw, I sure hope none of you are imagining that MacOS X does NOT run on a PC? That Jo...

The Mac mini uses standard desktop PC2700 DDR-SDRAM.

For HDTV, sure, it won't work. It works fine for SDTV/EDTV, though. Also, Macs can apparently be set up to use Firewire-equipped HDTV tuners, and record from those (see here). Oh, and what's an MPC?

2.7 GHz with stock fan and standard voltage... Ebbeh.

Do they exist in good quality for the Mac? If so, then where are they? Yep! Take a look in the ads section of a MacWorld magazine; there tend to be a bunch in there. Also, I missed any mention of a DVI-to-VGA converter. Is it safe to assume such a device exists for Macs? Yeah, it comes with one. :P

sthayashi wrote:Seriously, if they had included a digital and analog TV tuner ports to it, I actually WOULD buy it as an HTPC (HTMac?).

Errr... USB 2.0 or Firewire TV tuner?

Wow, what kind of CPU cooler was he using?

The educational discount is only 20 bucks (at least, for my school)...

I suppose you could make a Mini-ITX rig of about the same size. It'd be a lot more expensive and less elegant, though.

On the other hand, this has a fan, and Apple has hopefully learned from its mistakes.

A Quadro? Aren't those expensive pro cards?

Make that 17.

Actually... Is Firefox identified in logs as Netscape Navigator?

Is the arcrylic flexible? If so, you could probably beat it back into shape with a mallet... 20 bucks is a good price for a case.

Huh, interesting... So, basically, the entire case is covered in mesh?

As an ex-Mac user (had one of the logic-board problem iBooks, got fed up and switched to a Thinkpad for my laptop, went with PC desktop for gaming and price), I can attest to their greatness. The build quality tends to be quite good, and OS X beats Windows in pretty much everything (except gaming, I...

*looks at Russ*

You have some pictures for me, right?

Hot damn! I swear, the thing looks like it's an April Fool's joke... Anywho... DAMN, that thing is powerful for what it is! 's tiny! And cheap!

*continues drooling*

sthayashi wrote:Oooh. Does anyone know if Macs are compatible with normal monitors out there?

The new ones are. This one has DVI/VGA out.

Bah... I assume they didn't have cameras?

First post! :P Anywho, I've got a T40 that I've been using for a year or so (1.5 P-M, 512 MB DDR, 40 GB HD, DVD-ROM/CD-RW, Radeon 7500 mobility, 14.1" 1024x768). The cooling fan remains off most of the time, but it can be somewhat noisy when it spins up. The hard drive is fairly quiet, but it makes ...

Ooo, CES pics! You get anything on Shuttle's new nForce 4 box?

Bah, I just use duct tape.

But what will I gain (features, performance) if I add an extra graphics card? Or what will I lose if I use the "crappy" onboard card? I don't play games, and I can't see when I would need (or even notice) the difference. CPU utilization, etc. As I said, go for a cheapo card. Hell, even a $20 card (...

I believe that's "WTF"-worthy.

Agreed. Go for something like this ($165) instead, and save yourself a bit of cash.

The graphics card won't help with what you want. Get a high-end TV tuner, one with built-in MPEG2 encoding. However, the onboard graphics are pretty crappy. I'd drop 50 bucks or so on a low-end graphics card.

Those are the PCIe cards, not the AGP cards. The AGP version of MSI's 6600GT has a different, quieter cooling system,

Heh, true. I was thinking for a Shuttle case, though, where there isn't room for a 120 mm (let alone a 80 mm) fan.

In other words, no fan-swapping to keep it a single-slot cooler. Ah well.