Nano Nano
With OSX 10.5 ready to drop next week, I was readying my wallet to get a Mac Mini to sit under my TV for the perfect home media server experience via Front Row. Then the rumours. start. flooding in. of a new "Mac Nano" being readied for launch. It seems to be a cross between the Mini and the Apple TV, which will hopefully allow it to serve as a downloading station, capable of playing Div X etc, but as a downside it looks like the DVD drive might be getting dropped. That seems to be a potential move that Apple is planning across it's product line, which frankly seems a little rash. I don't think anyone is rocking a download-only world at the moment, but then again they did drop the old floppy disc when the original iMac came out, and everyone else quickly followed suit.
With Apple's very shaky quality control on new products, I may have to put up or shut up and plump down for the tried and tested mini or wait for ever for that elusive holy grail.
18th Oct 2007 - Tumblr