Hi Daniel, I am up watching the Tour de France on my iPad and keeping abreast of the exciting Apple releases on my MacBook Pro so I find it impossible not to put an oar. :-D
One solution would be to get an external Superdrive with the MacMini. They are available on the Apple Store for AUS$89. Alternatively you could get a large capacity external thunderbolt drive and rip your DVD collection. Depending on the resolution you choose you could fit your entire collection on a few terabytes of disk storage. That would mean they would all be searchable in iTunes and you wouldn't even have to get off your couch to select a new movie. Also your movies would be spared degradation of the physical medium. Apart from that when you travel, you could select some favourites from you collection and put them on your iPad or MacBook to watch on the journey. Sorry, but I couldn't let that full toss go through to the keeper. :-) Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-20, at 21:33, Daniel Kerr wrote: > > Waaaaaahhhhhh there comes my thought of a Home Media Centre to watch DVD's > etc on. (don't start Carlo - I have a lot of DVDs...over 600+) :op heheh > And I don't want to rip them all to file. Sometimes I want to grab it and > watch it. Maybe I'll get one of the just superseded models. Not like I need > Thunderbolt on it ;o) > I suppose I do have a BluRay player, so I could use that. Hmmm. > > Oh well, back to the drawing board with that idea,.... > Hmmm,.thinking cap on. :) > > Kind regards > Daniel > > > On 20/7/11 9:10 PM, "Jane Griffiths" <jjgr...@mac.com> wrote: > >> >> >> I'm surprised to see they've taken the optical drive out of the Mac Mini. >> >> So much new stuff to read about on the Apple store! >> >> And about to download Lion shortly... >> >> cheers >> Jane >> >> On 20/07/2011, at 8:59 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: >> >>> >>> Australian store is up too >>> >>> New MacMini >>> New MacBook Air >>> New 27" LED Monitor with Thunderbolt and price drop $1199 for 27"! Nice. :) >>> >>> And Lion apparently...lol >>> Oh wait,...nope. Sign in. Click buy. Type in Apple ID. "This item is >>> temporarily unavailable. Please try again later". LOL Error Message. LOL. Oh >>> well, I'll try later then,..lol. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Daniel >>> >>> >>> On 20/7/11 8:45 PM, "rkor...@iinet.net.au" <rkor...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Have a look, new MacBook Air among other things >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- 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> >>>> >>> >>> --- >>> 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> >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- 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> >> > > --- > 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> > -- 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>
