Headless iMac = center of your ‘digital living room’?
Everybody seems to be tripping on this idea of the
rumoured headless iMac as a digital media hub. It makes a hell of a lot
of sense. Media is converging at warp speed, and folks are going to need devices that help them keep on top of
everything. These devices will need to a) be easy to use for the average consumer and b)
just work.
Increasingly, these devices are going to need to be able to speak to each other, or otherwise act in concert. How
awesome would it be to have a bevy of cool gadgets, each doing their own tasks intuitively and well, combined with ‘one
gadget to rule them all’ that would centralize and coordinate the efforts of, say, your iPod, your TiVo, and your
satellite radio receiver? You come home, fire up your entertainment server brain, and get a list of all of the new
‘content’ available to you. Make your media selection based on your mood.
What do you think? Is Apple cooking up a gourmet dish of media server goodness?
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arkowi said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
This would be awesome. It would need to output in DVI composite so I can hook it up to the HDTV for maximum resolution. You could back up all your DVDs and use it as a DVD jukebox. I would also want wireless (obviously).
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garoo said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
I don't know. First, I don't think a set-top Mac could be the same as a headless $500 Mac. A media center would need a huge, fast hard disk, and lots of video I/O, and maybe memory card readers of all kinds, etc., and all of that is hardly compatible with manufacturing a Mac for the lowest possible cost.
Second, what sense would it really make for Apple's latest iPod revision to keep deliberately ignoring video, if they were about to release a digital media hub a few months later? A media Mac would *have* to work with the iPod, necessarily.
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