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.
weitere Wünsche gibts bei Asteroid
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Mich hat das schon erstaunt das der MiniMac sooo klein aussieht, wenn das “MACchen” noch leise ist, dann ist das eine echte Kaufempfehlung.
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