Mac Mini

[Witchy]

On Fri, December 2, 2005 5:36 pm, Chuck Guzis said:
> For those of us who like to play with homebrew hardware, one of the
> handiest general-purpose interfaces out there is the PC parallel port I I
> suspect its also why a lot of engineers keep a copy of MS-DOS somewhere in
> their files).  Articles for how to create some simple device attaching to
> the PC parallel port still appear in EDN's "Ideas for Design" section.
>
> What comparable facility is there on the new Macs?

Nothing, because they're not aimed at people who play with homebrewed
hardware, neither I suspect are current PCs because that's not where the
money is. New Macs are aimed at the market they've always been aimed at -
graphics and media. Mac Minis are aimed at people who just use PCs for
browsing/email/office/light graphics/music.

> of things to come.  A small sealed box and a desktop littlered with other
> boxes.  Don't know about wires--maybe it'll all be Bluetooth.

Have you seen reports of the new Acorn RiscOS machine that is a
cassette-sized metal box containing everything you need to do mac mini
type stuff? Well worth checking out and I wish I could remember the URL of
the article I was reading! It'll be buried somewhere in
www.theregister.co.uk or www.silicon.com or www.theinquirer.net :)

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adrian/witchy
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