http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/a-mac-mini-in-the-living-room User Experience Strategy, Ruby and Rails Web App Development Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:04:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/a-mac-mini-in-the-living-room/comment-page-1#comment-56262 Garrick Van Buren Mon, 05 May 2008 00:19:24 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/a-mac-mini-in-the-living-room#comment-56262 Nicole, Navigating anything covered by Front Row is great with the Apple remote. Occasionally something will lockup and a I need to VNC into the machine to bring it back to life - or there's a software update to install. Not a big deal considering there's usually a laptop nearby. Blu-Ray support is rumored for June, but I'm less optimistic about Apple supporting it at all - considering they have a number of machines designed to play video that lack optical drives (AppleTV, iPod, MacBook Air). Nicole, Navigating anything covered by Front Row is great with the Apple remote. Occasionally something will lockup and a I need to VNC into the machine to bring it back to life – or there’s a software update to install. Not a big deal considering there’s usually a laptop nearby. Blu-Ray support is rumored for June, but I’m less optimistic about Apple supporting it at all – considering they have a number of machines designed to play video that lack optical drives (AppleTV, iPod, MacBook Air).

]]> http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/a-mac-mini-in-the-living-room/comment-page-1#comment-56259 Nicole Netland Sat, 03 May 2008 18:40:53 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/a-mac-mini-in-the-living-room#comment-56259 Any updates to someone who's very close to giving this a try? Have you found that you can really get away without a keyboard? I assume no problems with with Blu-ray playback? Any updates to someone who’s very close to giving this a try? Have you found that you can really get away without a keyboard? I assume no problems with with Blu-ray playback?

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