The stuff that dreams are made of! (Mine anyway.)
Walter, have you seen the specifications for the Mac mini? I quote the note
in "New Scientist", 22 January, p. 22, under the heading, CUNNING PLAN FOR
MAC MINI?
Is Apple Computer planning to bring its fashionable iPod and Macintosh
styling to the high-definition TV market? When Apple introduced the $449
Mac mini last week, the smallest, cheapest Macintosh it has ever made, CEO
Steve Jobs referred to the opportunities it brings for high definition TV
storage and playback, sparking rumours of plans for a TiVo-like Mac product.
Packaged in a silver box little bigger than a paperback, the Mac mini could
easily be converted into a set-top box, analysts noted. It would be cheap
too. "Some digital cameras are more expensive than the new Mac," notes Tim
Bajarin, a technology analyst with Creative Strategies in Campbell,
California. Apple is tight-lipped over any TV plans however.
My dreams are not for TV storage and playback. (Little locally worth
storing anyway!) But "high-definition TV" surely includes high quality
sound? And if there's enough memory (in whatever form) for picture as well
as sound ...
Add a portable power supply and a mic input, and maybe I could record
straight into a Macintosh. That's my dream! Even if I had to have a DC/AC
converter in a back-pack.
Any comments Walter?
Cheers
Syd
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