[OSX-Users] Re: New Mac Mini

[Philip Boulain]

Steve Harris wrote:

>They don't really seem any better technologically, unless size is critical, but they look nicer, and onboard power is a good thing.
>

El Reg seems to agree---it's actually a downgrade in other respects, 
save for the GPU and HDMI:

http://www.reghardware.com/2010/06/18/review_desktop_mac_mini/

I'm kind of surprised at the lack of Blue Ray, but apparently OS X can't 
play such things anyway and you'd have to bootcamp to Windows 7.


If you want a real laugh, here's Dell trying the same thing:

http://www.reghardware.com/2010/02/22/review_desktop_pc_dell_inspiron_zino_hd/

It does Blue Ray! But here's the punchline: the audio output is plain 
old stereo. No surround.

D'OH.

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