Mac Mini Impressions

This is one of those situations where this has already been done to death, so I may not take it much past this article. However, I figured I’d throw out a few quick impressions of what you could expect if you were looking at a Mac Mini as a possible solution for an every day computer or for the heart of your home theater system (at least as far as HTPC (HTMac?) is concerned).

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Mac Mini Has Arrived

I’m not made of money though it would be convenient. However, I did order a Mac Mini for a variety of reasons, and while I won’t be the first, or last, to write about it, it is imminent, complete with some HTPC (or would that be HTM?) impressions.

I can hardly wait to see what it’s like, especially after it gets a new hard drive and more RAM.

Oh, and this is an experiment in posting from my iPhone. I’m curious what it’ll look like.

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Acer Aspire Revo Nettop Coming Soon – Ion-based HTPC?

It’s not secret I’m a fan of low-power, high-utility computers, and while we’re waiting for the Asus EeeBox PC B208 to come out and fill the gaping void of a low-powered, low-cost computer that can serve as an HTPC, it looks like Acer is getting ready to hit the market with their own. While the specs don’t look to be fully decided yet, one thing is very clear: this is going to use the nVidia Ion solution that Intel should have adopted (or at least made their own sucky graphics card on par with) some time ago.

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