Jonathan spoke to this in an earlier post, but its well worth another mention. As I stated in a previous post, the second Job’s held up the Mac Mini I thought ‘imagine that, a DVD player with a CPU’ and of course the cogs in my mind began envisioning surfing from the couch, instead of sitting in this knock-off Aeron Chair, but was this seemingly random thought pattern all that random? Think about it, Apple could have made the Mini any size shape or color they wanted to. Was it a coincidence the one they picked just happens to resemble a piece of consumer electronics gear, more than a computer? I think not, and gauging from the buzz ‘round the net, I’m not alone.

One of the better ‘this isn’t just a computer’ theories I’ve run across comes from Bob Cringely, admittedly he does wonder off into some seemingly unrelated ‘evidence’ but by and large his line of thinking, matches mine. Think about how many times “year of HD” “year of HD” was repeated at the keynote. And for further clues, think about how massively popular the iPod has been, how do you top that? Now the case for an in-home movie delivery system starts making a lot more sense, oh yeah in case you didn’t hear Steve say ‘Quicktime 7 is optimized for MPEG-4 HD playback’ Several times, I’ll say it. Quicktime 7 supports HD video playback….

B.Greenway

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