Just one more thing... I just saw this article "Hands on: Apple Mac mini" on SMH Digital life:
<http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/blogs/gadgets-on-the-go/hands- on-apple-mac-mini/20100809-11tl2.html> It has some discussion regarding using the Mac mini as a media centre. It raises some interesting points - be warned though - it is not necessarily particularly objective or well written. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 11/8/10 12:17 PM, Daniel Kerr at wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: > > Just to combine a few answers,... > > Peter - > Yes, as others have mentioned and you saw on the site, it does have the > burner installed. The Toast software is additional that you have to buy, but > some versions of the Elgato untis come with a "lite" version of Toast. Makes > burning content a lot easier. And generally Toast is a great piece of > software. > Ports - plenty of usb and Firewire ports, And all the others. You generally > want a wireless keyboard and mouse to access it, rather then having to > access it from sitting right in front of it with a wired keyboard and mouse. > Or if you don't want to do it that way, you can use the "Screen Sharing" > feature that the Mac has, so you can access it from another computer. > Good and bad points to both. > Cost - Obviously is a bit more expensive then an AppleTV, but as others have > mentioned you can do a whole lot more. And it double as a whole other > computer if you need another one. > > It's sort of one of those things, that once it's there you can see (and > appreciate) how much more you can do with it. Sure, it's a bit of a learning > curve, and it may not do "everything" but what it does do, it does well. > (And add in an Apple remote and some of the features you can control from > the little piece of technology.). > > David - > As Neil mentioned you'd set the Macmini into the Amp and use it as another > device there - eg CD, Radio, Turntable, AUX (MacMini) or something similar. > So the amp would handle the content on the Macmini, but others would be the > same as before. > IF you wanted the Macmini to control all your content (music, tv shows, > watch DVD's etc) then yes it may be an option. But if it was mostly just to > control music, then it may not be the best method. I'm sure others more in > an audio field may have ideas also. > (Plus brain has decided to slow down again,..lol). > > > Hope that all helps. > > Kind Regards > Daniel > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Macintosh** > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
