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Comedian Sinbad loves iPod shuffle, Mac mini
Speaking with iLounge at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, comedian Sinbad expressed continued love and admiration for Apple’s Mac and iPod product lines, joking that the Mac mini was “the sort of thing you buy even if you don’t need it,” and claiming that he’d be buying several for rooms in his house. He also jokingly predicted that people would soon be wearing multiple iPod shuffles at once to hold a large music collection.
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I’m amazed how SO many people are jumping on non-“computer” uses for the Mac Mini. Media servers, stereo components, DVRs, car stereos…
I agree that it’s versatile, it just surprises me that so many people come to the same conclusion. It will be cool to see what people come up with when you combine cheap, small, and OS X!
Posted by Nagromme on January 14, 2005 at 9:19 AM (PDT)
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The funny thing is, that for the price of two iPod shuffle 1G, you could just get an iPod mini with 4G of space. Not sure what the benefit of having multiples would be—if you want more space, there’s a whole other product line for that.
Posted by Prudence in Somerville, MA on January 14, 2005 at 10:07 AM (PDT)
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What the mini needs to compete equally with the other SFF media servers is a port of Myth from Linux to OSX - and some way to add some multi-zone SPDIF output and analog/HDTV input and output. Maybe through a USB breakout box r custom rack.?
Posted by Demosthenes on January 14, 2005 at 11:14 AM (PDT)
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they ahve an adapter for svidoe in/out for the mini tha say but the bluetooth keybord mouse and you got a home meida center just un plug the mini to watch tv
Posted by BIGP in Texas on January 14, 2005 at 12:11 PM (PDT)
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Prudence,
Your forgot the key word in Sinbad’s prediction: “Jokingly”
>“He also jokingly predicted that people
>would soon be wearing multiple iPod
>shuffles…”
Posted by mladd on January 14, 2005 at 1:51 PM (PDT)
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Cool Sinbads hilarious and a really nice guy.
Posted by FluidG4 on January 15, 2005 at 2:05 AM (PDT)
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what’s this about an adapter for video out from the pod? link please. Or is this just Nyko’s MoviePlayer.
Posted by andres in Miami on January 15, 2005 at 6:18 AM (PDT)