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Mac mini-powered car stereo hates phone books

Mac Mini Hero

There are many interesting, creative things you can do with a Mac mini, the over performing, underpraised hero of the Mac lineup. You can build it into your Millennium Falcon, good for shaving a parsec or two off the Kessel run; you can install Snow Leopard Server edition and use it to run your Facebook-beating social networking website; or, if you're really, really creative, you can install it in your 2001 Chevy Tahoe and use it to shred phone books.

Of course, using it for phone book destruction requires that you use only certain values of the terms 'interesting' and 'creative,' values nearer the shallower end of the gene pool than when using it to control your Millennium Falcon.

But still. I'm sure a Windows-based ICE system wouldn't have shredded that phone book nearly as well. Watch the video (sorry about the music) and let us know if you can think of an even better use for a Mac mini in the comments below.



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Dustbreeding

I can't believe I'm unemployed and this guy isn't. April fools...

April 01 2011 at 2:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Oscar Soto

The Mac mini had nothing to do with it, connecting an iPod would've given the same result.

April 01 2011 at 11:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan

And now a word from our sponser, Douchebag's R Us. Obnoxious is in our mission statement . . .

April 01 2011 at 10:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
L3

As I'm sure you know, a Parsec is a unit of distance, not time, and Solo performing that run in a shorter distance was a particular feat due to the shorter distance's difficulty compared to an easier, but longer route.

Now back to that mini...

April 01 2011 at 9:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Izzy

He folded the distance (like a piece of paper) thus cutting the time and distance.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about astrophysics but I heard that somewhere.

April 01 2011 at 9:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Level 5

"I'm sure a Windows-based ICE system wouldn't have shredded that phone book nearly as well."

You know, because it was TOTALLY the computer that shredded the phone books, the bass must have had nothing to do with it right?

April 01 2011 at 9:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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