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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 9427">my 2 cents about the macminiOSX 10.4 named Tiger which will be released at the end of the first half of this year has some very important updates which make this little box a killer HTproduct for the home. The reasons are the following.Tiger has support for the HDDVD standard, h264, core image, core video and core audio. Spotlight a search tool is also build into the core.but what do this things do exactly?Core image, audio and video are a technology that allows realtime filtering of your media or your app stread from the videocard and the audiochip. So stuff like saturation,&nbsp; transparency, moving objects, stuff like that are all supported within the core.The core of OSX is called darwin and is open source. So you can really build in all this great stuff into your app.a downside is.The Radeon 9200 was choosen budget wise and because of the heat issue so this card doesn't support Core image or core video,&nbsp; important for me but no real biggie for a HT app. It only disables realtime filtering, the other icandy like moving windows are still supported. Ladies and gents: This time apple got it right! But the question remains Who will build the first Multi MediaCenter app for this beautiful box.Because the mini is perfectly noisless, sleek, small, cheap and it has alot of benafits within the core of the OS which is opensource.In other words the perfect HTproduct.I while probably get mine when Tiger is released. growww</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 9427"] my 2 cents about the macmini OSX 10.4 named Tiger which will be released at the end of the first half of this year has some very important updates which make this little box a killer HTproduct for the home. The reasons are the following. Tiger has support for the HDDVD standard, h264, core image, core video and core audio. Spotlight a search tool is also build into the core. but what do this things do exactly? Core image, audio and video are a technology that allows realtime filtering of your media or your app stread from the videocard and the audiochip. So stuff like saturation, transparency, moving objects, stuff like that are all supported within the core. The core of OSX is called darwin and is open source. So you can really build in all this great stuff into your app. a downside is. The Radeon 9200 was choosen budget wise and because of the heat issue so this card doesn't support Core image or core video, important for me but no real biggie for a HT app. It only disables realtime filtering, the other icandy like moving windows are still supported. Ladies and gents: This time apple got it right! But the question remains Who will build the first Multi MediaCenter app for this beautiful box. Because the mini is perfectly noisless, sleek, small, cheap and it has alot of benafits within the core of the OS which is opensource. In other words the perfect HTproduct. I while probably get mine when Tiger is released. growww [/QUOTE]

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