Mac Mini To Finally Become Media Center?

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November 30th 2005

Mac Mini To Finally Become Media Center?

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When the Mac Mini launched at the beginning of the year, this website spent a lot of time debating its abilities as a media center PC. We decided it was lacking in that respect, notably because of the absence of TV tuner. That may just be about to change.....

Apple rumour site, ThinkSecret.com (yes, the target of the multiple lawsuits from Steve Jobs, so they must be right!) believe that the Mac Mini is about to be reborn as the media hub its good looks always suggested it should be.

Amazingly the new Mac Mini may be Intel-powered - the first Apple computer to be so. Whether it will incorporate any elements of Intel's Viiv platform is unclear, but that possibility remains.

ThinkSecret is also a little vague on the possibility of the TV tuner being built into the Mac Mini Mark II, but their sources are calling it a Tivo-killer which would suggest that it will be.

The new Mini will also sport an iPod dock and potentially a larger format hard drive for the extra capacity required by media center applications.

So, is any of this true? Possibly. Apple has slowly, but surely, been turning its attention to the living room that Intel and Microsoft have been struggling to conquer for the last three years. When the Mac Mini was first released it almost seemed like a missed opportunity, so even if ThinkSecret's rumours turn out to be false this time, it surely won't be long.

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