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Apple to follow MS into the living room with 'reborn Mac mini'

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Published: Wednesday 30th November, 2005 | Author: Bob Crabtree

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Apple to follow MS into the living room with 'reborn Mac mini'

Think Secret is predicting that Apple's titchy small Mac mini will be reborn as a media-centre PC at the next Mac Expo in San Francisco (Jan 9-13). It reports that the new Mac mini, code-named Kaleidoscope, will feature an Intel processor and include TiVo-like PVR functionality.

Mac mini

Think Secret also reckons that Kaleidoscope will be running a new version of Front Row - the media-player front-end applet. The original (controlled by a tiny wireless remote handset) was introduced by Apple with its fourth-generation all-in-one iMac computers at the October event which also saw the launch of the video iPod and a chargeable video-download service via iTunes. Check out our report from that event if you missed it.

Front Row interface on iMac.
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Posted by autopilot - Thu 1st Dec 2005, 6:34pm

If it has a decent tuner card and the price is right, i may well have to get one.Quote

Posted by DavidM - Thu 1st Dec 2005, 6:43pm

I would if it switched to an alternative X86-64 based chipset :)Quote