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03/02/2006, 10:15am, EST

Thursday, March 2nd

Briefly: HD Mac mini; NYT on MacBook

In brief: A recent report suggests that Apple may well be on its way to making the Mac mini a high-definition home media center, citing various features and pointing to Apple's instructional pages.... The Clinton Presidential Library website, which is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, appears as a blank page when accessed with Safari.... Apple's recently-acquired data center at 39800 Eureka Drive, which is categorized as one of the most elaborate types of data centers, showed little signs of activity Wednesday afternoon.... Avis Rent A Car is offering customers at least five free songs each time they rent a vehicle, while the Caribou Coffee chain has announced its "Wake Up and Smell the Music" campaign, offering 30,000 prizes including iPods and iTunes song downloads.... Following reviews by Ars and WSJ's Walt Mossberg, The New York Times has published a review of the MacBook Pro (free registration required), covering each aspect of the new system from aesthetics to functionality.


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maybe by MacWorld
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03/02, 10:43am, EST
I am very interested in what Apple may do as far as a DVR/iTunes set top box but I am becoming less and less optimistic it will be done for the home theater crowd and more towards people who want a computer in the living room (if that makes sense).

I am very happy with Tivo (with exception of the lack of Mac support for Home Media Connection for intel Macs and Tivo to Go). Tivo does the DVR part right. Apple could take it so much further. But I think Apple's Media Computer won't do DVR, it will instead be a portal to the iTunes store, which would be cool but at the same time dissapointing.
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Apple will do nothing...
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03/02, 2:05pm, EST
...unless they buy EyeTV. With EyeTV 2, elgato has set is position as the top PVR software for the Mac. The recordings integrate perfectly with Front Row.

Apple has nothing to add here. Doing so would kinda be like comparing Disc Burner to Toast...no comparison, you know, with Apple's minimalistic approach to things.

They'd definitely need more than a 6 button remote to add more features.
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03/02, 5:38pm, EST
You know, the press are going to have to type the extra 4 characters and add PRO every time they write about the MacBook Pro. It will need to be distinguished from the likely name of the new ibook: simply "MacBook".
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