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Almost twenty things to do with a Mac mini
Granted, with all the software available for the Mac (over 10,000) you can do just about anything with your Mac. But the mini can go some places a full-size Mac dare not go. Therefore, I present to you, almost twenty things you can do with your Mac mini. Here's hoping we all get one for a [insert your calendar-based holiday gifting preference here] present. Wait, you're not holding out for the new mini in January are you?- Mount it on the wall
- Mount it in your car (examples here, here, and here)
- Use it as a Media Center (a few people are doing this, with more here)
- Make it into a robot (did anyone finish translating this?)
- Make it into a robot that can drive your car (OK, so it takes 4)
- Use it as a touchable stereo (or use it as a plain stereo, but either way you can use it as an alarm clock)
- Use it as a server
- Put Linux on it
- Take it apart
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Control it remotely via your Newton
- Turn it into a MAME cabinet
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Use it for toilet paper storage
- Strap it to the subway
- Cram it inside the Millenium Falcon
- Control your house
- Run your business (using iWork, Office, and PhoneValet)
- Paint it
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Paperweight (does this need a link? feel free to post your Flickr picks of the mini in action here— or inaction as it were)
- Calculator
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
maz said 5:45PM on 12-01-2005
Don't forget modular synth module.
If that's not cool I don't know what is.
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Kesey said 6:43PM on 12-01-2005
What ever happened to Mount it on your Plasma:
http://www.nodrm.com/?p=104
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Owen said 10:51PM on 12-01-2005
Make it battery powered!
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~silasb/macbat/
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JJ (DJBennetts) Mini Ture_MacJournal said 12:40AM on 12-10-2005
The Mac mini and Power/Battery Pack question needs to be answered on the question of power sustainability and for many Mac mini operations.
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