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Das Blog Aster­oid hat ein Konzept niedergeschrieben.In diesem wird aus ver­schiede­nen Pro­duk­ten der Macwelt eine Art Mac Mini Medi­a­cen­ter abgeleitet.

Im Zusam­men­spiel mit der Open­source­soft­ware Cen­ter­Stage ( wir berichteten ) ergeben sich fol­gende Traumfeatures :

Few or no exter­nal con­trols. All fea­tures should be con­trol­lable by soft­ware in the mini. Per­haps a power but­ton (which would also power the mini), but that’s all.

Port repli­ca­tion, as usu­ally found in a dock­ing sta­tion. This would include power (allow­ing you to ditch the power brick that came with the mini).

In addi­tion to repli­ca­tion of the DVI con­nec­tor, the sta­tion would wire the mini to built-in adap­tors for VGA, S-Video, com­pos­ite video and (most impor­tantly) com­po­nent video (Y/Pb/Pr), with ports for each arrayed on the back of the dock. If it didn’t have the com­po­nent video, I wouldn’t buy it. Ide­ally, it would send sig­nal to all of these at once, but being able to pick one at a time with a soft­ware con­trol panel would be acceptible.

Video input of some kind wired into the firewire bus, smi­lar to a built-in EyeTV 500.

Two (or more) large, fast hard­drives would be built into the dock, wired to the firewire port. It should not be rocket sci­ence for the user to replace these dri­ves. Pos­si­bly the dock would sup­ply just the drive bays, and the user would sup­ply their own dri­ves. These dri­ves should be on the quiet side. The addi­tion of a quiet fan to cool the dri­ves would be acceptible.

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