[OSX-Users] Re: Mac mini - no DVD drive

[Hugh Glaser]

Yeah.
I have a few remotes in a drawer somewhere because every time I tried to use one for anything the wrong machines would fire up front row.

On 24 Jul 2011, at 11:03, Les A Carr wrote:

> I for one am glad to see the back of it, as an AppleTV remote cannot help but operate FrontRow on all the laptops in the room as well as the AppleTV it is twinned with.
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> Les
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> On 23 Jul 2011, at 15:03, Chris Andrews wrote:
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>> On 23 Jul 2011, at 11:42, Philip Boulain <prb at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>> On 21/07/2011 14:13, Andrew Paul Landells wrote:
>>>> For me at least, the Mac Mini lives under the TV and its primary function is a DVD player.
>>> 
>>> http://www.slashgear.com/apple-axes-front-row-from-os-x-lion-22166844/
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>>> Also of interest for those using Mac Minis as media centres: Front Row is dead.
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>> Front Row was never alive in the first place. Half-arsed, all useless.
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>> Chris
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