“When Apple rolled out its Mac mini in January, a lot of Apple enthusiasts excitedly claimed that the device could easily become a living room-based “iHome” device that might eventually incorporate DVR capabilities,” Paul Thurrott writes for Internet-Nexus.com. “…one thing I never bought into is the idea of the Mac mini as an iHome device. It’s just not suitable for that purpose. But [Microsoft’s] Xbox 360. My God.”
“The Xbox 360–while still six months away from shipping–kicks the Mac mini in the butt and makes the whole iHome concept look like a non-starter to begin with. I’m starting to believe that the digital media hub of my home will indeed be in my living room, and not in my home office. But it will be an Xbox 360, and not a Mac,” Thurrott writes.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Is Thurrott suggesting that Apple’s ceased all R&D and will not be releasing any new or updated products between now and Christmas 2005? By the way, Apple never suggested the Mac mini’s purpose to be anything other than an inexpensive Mac OS X machine that Windows users could pick up and easily use with their current collection of monitors, keyboards, and mice. Comparing Microsoft vapor to currently shipping Apple products seems to have become a very popular pastime with the Wintel-centric press outlets lately (Thurrott’s now taken it to an even more ridiculous level by trying to compare a game console to an entry-level personal computer). Thankfully, we don’t have to stoop to comparing future Apple products to currently shipping Microsoft products (while twisting products’ intended uses) to make ourselves feel better about our platform choice.
[UPDATE, 1:55pm ET: Changed “MDN Take” to “Christmas 2005.”]
I wouldn’t exactly call the 360 vapor. I would like to see Apple make an attempt to compete in the living room though. An Apple DVR, drool…
Typical Thurrott… All hot air and no substance.
This takes the cake. What’s next, Paulie, are you going to compare a future washing machine to a shipping refrigerator and start planning where to put it in your kitchen?
yes please stop comparing microsoft or any product to something a mac item was not designed to do.
By his exclamation, are we to understand that the Xbox is his God?
Must be slow news day at the MDN editorial offices…
egarc,
Is Xbox 360 shipping? No. It’s vapor until it ships. Plus, it’s moronic to try to compare it to an Apple Mac mini whether it’s vapor or not.
My god, this isn’t even a comparison! XBox 360 = gaming machine/other media features. Mac mini = computer.
Everyone else except Apple has been on about how that Mac mini might be the basis for future home digital media hub. I’d understand this comparison if Steve Jobs had a keynote speech saying, “The Mac Mini is the future of the the digital media hub in your living room”. However, he did not.
Thurrott apparently wants one more thing to claim MS is superior over Apple for.
The thing is, the XBox 360 isn’t exactly vaporware. It’s been seen, specs have been published, etc. I will agree though that the Mac mini isn’t, and wasn’t, meant to be something to compete with what is first and foremost, a console game system.
Why do people who dislike macs always compare thier weaknesses to something that they were not designed for? and I’m tired of the best argument for why the mac mini sucks being that it only has two usb ports. I’d say thats a pretty good feature if the weakest part of your design is that you only have two ports you can easily exand if you have $25 for a hub.
Good to know Paul is back in the black – eeh I mean: on the dark – side of power. Have been afraid we had to solely rely on this car-salesman guy called Rob.
the xbox 360 is vapor until there is a working console the thing you see pictures of is a mock up of what it is supposed to look like. all the demos of the games have been running on G5 Macs. PS the specs for the 360 say it has an add on 20GB hard drive. With how much it must cost M$ to build the 360 on current specs leads me to believe it would cost over the $700-800 range. It will be the ultimate gaming console but probably only for hardcore gamers because you wont see parents running out to buy kids something with a pricetag like that. the 360 will likely have much lower specs once the machine comes to resolution to make a feesible price point
Can I ask a few questions?
1 – can Xbox 360 run Microsoft Office or iTunes?
2 – can Xbox record movies from TV?
3 – what’s Thurrott’s record on predictions?
4 – who’s the “buyer” for Xbox 360?
5 – who’s the “buyer” for a Mac mini?
6 – where’s the Home Computer these days? Living room in front of TV, or elsewhere?
7 – why do we listen to this guy?
8 – did Microsoft steal the name Xbox 360 from Tera Patricks’ Mac360?
Tera Patricks
Mac360
I see he’s on his meds again.
He kind of has a point, although I’m not wholly convinced. The fact is, MDN and other sites have reported tremendously on the potential of the Mac mini to serve as a living room device that can be a central hub for television, stereo, computing, etc. The fact is, the specs for the X-Box 360 make it much more appropriate for that purpose. It is massively fast. It will play music, play games, run slide shows, connect to the internet, and perhaps they’ll make add-ons eventually for cable television. Right now, the X-Box is much closer to the goal than the Mac mini. And while Apple is still creating, I don’t know of any plans right now to produce anything similar. Let’s see how this plays out, because I think somebody needs to start thinking about creating that Living Room device, and from the looks of it, it can’t resemble a computer.
I’ll give Microsoft it’s due credit. The XBox 2 sounds amazing. I hope the Sony/Apple Playstation 2 (if true) will one-up it. Let’s face it folks, Apple simply does not compete in the gaming world. Every PC owner I know always cites Apple’s lack of gaming muscle and game availability as their primary reasons not to switch. My iMac G5 barely runs DOOM 3 at the lowest quality, although installing Tiger improved it. A multi-button APPLE Mouse, a more intuitive way to find and launch apps (the dock is limited and putting the apps folder there is slow), better gaming muscle, matching peripherals (oh how I miss the old days when Apple made printers), and a solid alternative to MS Office are all sorely needed to effectively build marketshare. Apple is taking baby steps with computers and giant steps with the iPod. The strategy needs to change. The XBox 2 is simply a quantum leap over what Apple has to offer in gaming.
What a joke. Come on Thurott wake up to reality will you. The XBox is a gaming console and the Mac Mini is a very entry level Mac designed to be inexpensive. Apple never declared it to be a home entertainment system. Doesn’t this guy ever read the facts before typing these rediculous articles. I’m also getting tired of reading all of these vaporware comparisons that these people write about. When Microsoft can actually produce a product that actually does something then write about it.
I bet thorott didn’t relize that all that intro stuff of the XBox was done on a PowerMac G5 and not on even a Wintel machine.
I saw a photo of a Mac Mini slid into the dashboard DIN slot of a VW GTI to be used as a mobile entertainment hub.
I’ll bet Thurrott could put his Xbox 360 under the dashboard of his 1967 VW Vanagon and use the heatsink as a defrosting heat exchanger for the front windshield!
Now this is a realistic comparison of performance & functionality
We are working on an open source media Center for Mac.
from the about page:
CenterStage is on open source project to build a powerful and intuitive media center application for the Apple Macintosh, this project was inspired by the launch of the Mac mini, an ideal Mac to use as part of a home theatre system.
http://www.centerstageproject.com
But the difference in the comparison is that the 360 has been built for this home center purpose (MS trojan horse as it were) and the Mini was not, so his whole “comparison” is just stupid. BTW wasn’t he the guy that said the new xbox was NOT going to run on G5 Chips?
“…Apple never suggested the Mac mini’s purpose to be anything other than an inexpensive Mac OS X machine…”
Apple may not have suggested, but MDN sure did:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/4833/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/4802/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/4795/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5011/
“The thing is, the XBox 360 isn’t exactly vaporware. It’s been seen, specs have been published, etc.“
Longhorn has also been seen and some specs have also been published. That said, it’s more MIA than a quality computer from Dell.
Given Apple’s penchant for keeping new products under wraps, who knows what we will see in 6 months.
palindromically yours…maccam
The Xbox is a gaming machine with a 20 gig harddrive. Maybe down the road these items will work like a media center but certainly not yet.
The mini is better suited as a media center already. Not a very good one but it would still work.
I’m underwhelmed by the Xbox 360. I hope PS3 blows it away.
I think it will be a hard sell for the XBOX 360 to anyone over the age of 25. I love video games, but have gotten past the age where I HAVE to have the latest and greatest. Trying to make an “all-in-one” system just doesn’t make sense. Most people will view it for what it is: A gaming system. The average person isn’t going to want it.
That’s the problem, in general, with the iHome concept. Most users don’t get what it is, or have a need for it.
I think it’s typical Microsoft. Try to be everything it can, and fail at all of them, instead of just concentrating on making something solid that does its job the best it can.
Just what I always wanted… Viruses on my TV!!!
The Xbox is a great gaming platform, but M$ has no concept of end-user-functionality… Their attempts are convoluted piles of disjointed features thrown together with no real structure to let you do what you are trying to accomplish. They have all of the pieces to do great things (WebTV, Windows, MSN, XBOX, money) but they don’t seem to care how the elements are combined to create a new product or feature.
They make a non-secure OS, so what do they do? Start selling security as an additional feature…
You can’t search the Windows OS natively… Their solution? Create an external ‘add-on’ application to find pre-indexed files.
The day I use a joystick to direct my XBOX to http://www.myhomecomputer.com to find a photo of my son (hoping I remember what it’s file name was) is the day after I send my G5 to Mrs. Thurrott with a letter of repentance!!
Paul, get your resumé together, I hear Bill ass can only hold so many noses…. putz
Who cares. The Xbox 360 will be dog meat once the Sony PS3 comes along in 2006. They had better enjoy their very brief time at the top while it lasts…
“MDN editorial offices…” HAHAHAHHAH….LOL too funny
anybody wonder how they are going to cool this thing? Dual G5 2.5 and 2.7 have to use liquid cooling. and large venttilation areas.
MDN — why do you keep promoting Thurrott’s insane views??? Stop reading his useless website and stop sending us to it — it just gives him more hits and that means more advertisers, more money in his pocket, and more validation of his writing!!!
He probably spends so much time bashing Apple because he knows that when he does, sites like MDN will send over thousands of hits.
We all get that Thurrott is bitter about being entrenched in a mediocre system — and he’s stuck there for the rest of his career. Stop enabling this sad little man and start ignoring him as he should be ignored.
You mean 2005. The XBox 360 is scheduled for release this year, while MDN implies that Apple has 1.5 years to respond (“Christmas 2006”.) And no, I don’t think Apple will have any answer to the XBox 360 in 6 months. I think the best thing Apple could hope for is to license the design, and port MacOS X to Microsoft hardware. Otherwise, Thurrott is right. You’ll be getting more for less with the XBox 360– what’s the point of a mini?
I’m surprised Paul hasn’t made a comparison between the gameboy and the iPod, or iPod vs. PSP.
It can only mean one thing: MicroS#@t’s pay check has FINALLY ARRIVED!!!!
The G5 used in the XBox is a different animal and won’t require the cooling the Mac does.
MDMW: hand – as in: People who use the Xbox have simply got to get out of the house more and stop lovin’ the hand.
As soon as Apple ups the specs (grafx) of the mini to really handle the HiDef H.264 Quicktime 7 and Core technologies, it will be just as good as the 360, just lacking the sheer # of games, but will have all the entertainment features (music/movies/pics/DVD) as the 360 plus the ability to create and burn and share your own creations and do actual work on it. The new 100gig 7200 RPM laptop drives will make this a much more viable option.
I think the xbox specs look good, especially since its based on the technology that run our favorite machines. But there will specific differences. Really is Apple made a double-wide mini with 2 removable drives and built in WiFi/Bluetooth, 128meg Vid card and HD-DVD burner, it WOULD BE the perfect living room machine
Dont forget these consoles are sold at a LOSS on purpose. Apple will not sell its hardware at a loss, so price comparisons are moot.
Scott, it will be water cooled.
The CPU (and presumably the GPU) is cooled by a water cooled heatsink and twin fans. The motherboard is built on a 4-layer PCB, which is to be expected from a cost standpoint. Despite the trend away from Windows/PC architecture, the Xbox 360 does appear to still be very computer-like inside.
http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2414
dresified, although I too would think that the specs would not lend itself to be under at least $500, I have heard rumors of 300-350. Although it might be early for that.
“As soon as Apple ups the specs (grafx) of the mini to really handle the HiDef H.264 Quicktime 7 and Core technologies, it will be just as good as the 360,”
So Apple plans to produce a Mini with three 3.2 GHz G5-like cores for $499? Hmmm, no.
The Mini is not a gaming/Home Entertainment machine plain and simple. It was never designed as such, regardless of what MDN wants you to believe.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/4833/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/4802/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/4795/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5011/
“Is Thurrott suggesting that Apple’s ceased all R&D and will not be releasing any new or updated products between now and Christmas 2005?”
Yeah, thats about right. Will there be a XBOX 360 killer in 6 months? hmm, no. Apple doesn’t even have an XBOX 1 killer. Will Apple update its hardware to be midly competitive by Christmas 2005? Yes.
IBM coined the 360 moniker, didn’t they?
It’s funny how defensive some of you get when someone says something that could possibly suggest that an Apple product might have a weakness. Thurrott wasn’t insulting the mini, all he was saying is that if you want an iHome like device (which obviously many people want to believe the mini can be) the XBox might be a better choice, especially for the price.
Regarding the price, do you think anyone actually cares if MS is losing money on each sale? Of course not, people are only going care about the fact that they are getting some pretty good technology for a really low price.
You guys are so caught up in your MS vs. Apple wars that you can’t seem to practical about anything.
HAHA.. the funny thing is the Xbox reverts Bill Gates’ old ideas about XP Media Centres..
how, you ask?
Because the idea that a computer belongs in the office is reinstated as this GAME MACHINE takes over the living room.
Makes sense, doesn’t it?
In fact.. Media Centers have been the non-starters.. a PC with a 30 inch screen? No no.. a TV with a keyboard.. wait.. no.. hold on..
The Xbox is cool and, unfortunately, comes with Windows. Is it time for another anti-competitive lawsuit?
I didn’t know Xbox had iMovie.. that’s impressive..
I didn’t know the Xbox would sync my iPod (75% marketshare).. impressive..
I didn’t know I could upload my photos from my camera into my Xbox360 and edit photos with a gamepad.. impressive…
The XBOX is cool, but in the same way that the current xbox is cool.. as a gaming machine.. all this other stuff is pure hype.
having said that, we don’t know what Sony and Nintendo are doing.. most likely it has something to do with making a profit.
Enough with the freaking Thurrott stuff! You guys take the bait every time!
The biggest fan boy or admirer of Mac is Bill Gates. He copies everything that happens on the Mac/Apple albeit it does take a good number of years to bring it to furition.
MacTV= Windows Media center PC
emate= Tablet PC
MacOs X= Windows Xp (MS changed the name from Whistler to Xp after Os X came out; I am only referring to the X in the name not the OSes!)
Now the X-box looks very much like the Panther/Tiger boxes. It is shaped like an X. (Yes, I know it is a game console and not an OS, but the resemblence is quite striking).
‘Stealing’ is MS’ middle name. It is not surprising the name was influenced by Mac360 or similar
You may argue it is all a coincidence. But I don’t think so.
Yeah and remember Longhorn looks great on paper, but Microsoft has been hying that one for three years and by their own admission they’re a year and a half away from releasing it. If and when the new X box is released it will likely have a scaled down set of specs than those listed in their press release. This is vintage Microsoft – all blow and no dough.
Lollll. The guy who writes the “MacDailyNews Take” is so funny…
First you say that Apple will be doing R&D and will realease new or updated technology between now and Christmas 2005.
And a couple of lines later you ask people not to talk about non-existent(vapor) products. Well how come this is vapor, and the earlier one is not?
If you have not, please go re-read (or should i say, just read?) your earlier “Takes”. You are the one who keeps comparing Apple products to MS products. When someone else does that, you want to take the high road.
What a hypocrite!
its the xbox 360 rather than XBOX 2 because it would have sounded lame next to the PS3. Who wants a 2 when you can buy a 3 ?
i love how MS is getting into proprietary (like apple) hardware for its software (like apple). Less bugs, more fun.
apple has grand designs imho, we’ll see a mac gaming rig before long, possibly branded ‘sony’…
haha.
The iHome IS a non-starter. WTF are we talking about?
I’m sorry to say it, but MS has much bigger purchasing power than Apple. MS can turn around to IBM and say we will buy at least 10 million CPU’s over 5 years and get a huge discount. They can pay for more R&D on chips specifically for their machine. This financial power will put Apple Mac’s running at 2 to 3Ghz in the shade compared to multi-chip games consoles selling for a fraction of what you can buy a Mac for. Apple can’t even use the same chips as MS as they are cut down PowerPC processors designed for entertainment and not scientific computing (floating point precision, etc.). It’s a sad thing to admit but it’s true.
After all the speculation about Apple using the same chips as Sony’s PS3 (cell processor) earlier in the year and now this I seriously hope that Apple have got something amazing up their sleeve. The recent speed increase to dual 2.7Ghz was underwhelming as far as I was concerned. I was considering purchasing a G5 system to compliment my 17″ PB, which at 1.5Ghz is starting to feel a little bit of a slouch compared to my AMD/Windows machine at work.
I am hoping for dual-core dual processor machines from Apple this year…. bring back the Quadra name for them please
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I think that Apple needs to drop some of that huge cash reserve they’ve got on CPU development with IBM, or whoever, and speed up the motherboard interconnect. I’d also like to see PCI-E slots for video, optical audio on all machines for 5.1/7.1 (THX please!) and increase the resolution (not size) of their laptop displays and no more shitty low-end video chips in any machine – Tiger can use the power so deliver it in all machines including the Mini.
Oh, I forgot to say, that over the lifetime of the Xbox 360 the processor speed will stay the same most likely, look at the Xbox 1, and Apple and the rest of the computing market will get faster. Eventually this machine will be old hat and hopefully the Mac G6 will make it look dated in a two to three years.
nice to see thurrott back to normal. I was beginning to worry.
I love to watch all these people pretending that a “triple-core PowerPC at 3Ghz” means that the XBox 360 will have a real desktop chip like a G4 or G5. It means nothing of the sort — I’ve got a PowerPC in my telephone. As befits a game machine, the CPU for the XBox 360 will be stripped of processing features and optimized for the narrow set of functions it will be doing. Most of the heavy lifting will not be done by these three “baby cores”, but rather by the other assorted special-purpose chips.
If you make a tiny, simple chip, you can run it at a high clock easily, but that doesn’t mean that an XBox 360 will have six times the performance of a Mac Mini. It will play games very well, but it wouldn’t be a great CPU for a general-purpose computer. The high clock speed is just hype. The PS2 could do some huge number of triangles a second, unless you were trying to make a real game. Console manufacturers have always loved coming up with absurd specs that don’t reflect real-world performance.
Look at the Playstation 2 1/2. It is very compact and I’ll bet Playstation 3 will be just as efficiently designed. Nintendo’s Revolution will be thin as three DVD case stack together, typical compact intelligent design from Japan. On the other hand, Xbox 360, although smaller than the first, still clunky and bulky compared to the compactors. Not to mention its ugliness. That confirm one thing: MicroS#@t’s industrial design, if there is any, SUCKS and inefficient!! The people at the top have no taste and it trickles down.
Um, forgive me if I’m echoing a few of you, but the XBox 360 (at least according to the XBox website) is being marketed as a game machine with an HD “experience”, and can, AS LONG AS YOU ALREADY HAVE a Windows Media Center PC lurking about somewhere, stream HD content. There’s nothing about the DVR capabilities Thurrott speaks of. Oh, BTW, all he has to do for a Mac mini, or many other Macs for that matter, is to hook up an EyeTV 200 (DVR) and an EyeConnect (streaming). Granted, a dual G5 Mac is needed for full HD capabilities. Thurrott still has to make sure his Media Center PC is equipped to record and playback HDTV content. M$ is not even making those promises as to the XBox 2 (a/k/a XBox 360).
If the Xbox 360 is a horrible failure, and has a bad start, it will only outsell the mini by a factor of 10.
My whole home entertainment experience will be built around the Mac. Xbox 360 need not apply!
I bet if I dipped my Balls in a Shiney White “Glass”, You apple freaks would buy them for a couple of grand.
Oh btw, they are wireless too
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He also mentions “water-cooled”. Can you imagine cooling 3 cores and what that does to the “cool”/”hot” packaging? No-one else has tagged this as “water-cooled”, so where Paul’s source? His anterior?
I invented the term “360”.
Though I do not agree with this guy, MS has a potential trojan horse with this one. The game console is a great way to sneak a PC into the living room. With that Gates can tie in those knock off mp3 players, the MS knock off music store, knock off photo, movie viewing, and wannbe TivO functions. With this one box (pretending to be a game machine) in the living room MS can even more completely dominate all of these markets. After all if you have an X-Box 360 you want to make certain your mp3 player, music store, video camera etc. work with it… and that will only happen if you use MS blessed products and codecs.
I think this actually has a chance of success. Many more people want game consoles than want “media center Pc’s” This gives MS the foot in the living room door they need.
MDN pays entirely too much attention to Thurrott.
People will always find faults with other people’s faults. And its all people’s faults. That is to say, people with faults do that.
Now if we could just cut Microsoft’s taxes, maybe they could finish up this Xbox and still have time to go to church.
Praise Jesus.
Comparing a small footprint computer to a video game console is about the most absurd thing I think I have ever read on the web.
As usual Mr.T’s credibility = ZERO.
not sure if anyone has said this before, but i think that MS doesn’t really care how much it cost to make and sell the xbox 2. I think like the first xbox they aren’t in it to make money. I gurantee the xbox2 will be decently priced and MS will lose money on each box. All they care about is getting into a market and trying to dominate it. They have too much money (45 plus billion) now and all they care about is market penetration and hype. I bet the xbox 2 will be good, but lets see how much they price it. The specs say 799 and up, but i bet they will price it at 499. lose 300 on each xbox, but get backend with game makers and acessories. Didn’t the first xbox division lose like 860 million dollars the first quarter even though it sold a million units. I hope IBM has chip problems with the xbox as well as it had with the PowerMac.
This comparison is so off from the get go.Only he would compare a watered-down mac with a cutting-edge console that isn’t even out yet.
funny, read the new Time cover story. Here’s a blip from the article:
“Which is why, in addition to games, the Xbox 360 plays CDs. You can also use it to rip songs off CDs and play them from the hard drive. You can plug your iPod into the Xbox 360 and play songs off that too. You can watch DVDs on it. If you have a digital camera, you can plug it into the Xbox 360 and pop the images up on your TV, which beats making everybody crowd around the computer monitor in your study. If you have sufficient techno-gumption, you can even connect the Xbox 360 to your PC wirelessly, via wi-fi, and access whatever music and pictures you have stored there.”
and…
“Right now you can use Xbox Live to talk to people you’re playing with via voice chat—think free long distance over the Internet. Soon you will also be able to send e-mail and instant messages. If you have a camera peripheral, you will be able to send short video messages and even videoconference. And here’s an important point: with Xbox 360, you don’t even have to be playing a game. You will be able to chat with other people over Xbox Live when you’re just plain watching TV.”
what? How is this news? Um… mac’s have had these capabilitiews for 4 or more years now. amazing…
WILL THE REAL X-BOX STAND UP?
To date, the only production platform that can run X-Box 360 software is the PowerMac G5. Where are all of those people wanting Apple to abandon the PPC for X86 now?
Magic Word “only” as in only one.
The X-Box360 IS a computer and runs a variant of the Windows NT for PPC that used to be sold back in the day. It would be very easy for MS to market these as home computers by adding in basic Word Processing and a few other apps- everything else for Joe/Jane average user is already there. It’s PPC Windows with a different UI.
Wonder what they are going to say about the upcoming “Thin Client” Mac Tablet that Steve Jobs is going to whip out at the WWDC?
What no pentium processors? I thought intel processors blew the doors off of G5’s. WTF is wrong with Bill & they are developing on Apple hardware? OMG. Those bastards at Apple they never know what they are doing. They picked the wrong processor. Now thaey must have Gates held hostage or something. How can this be…oh woe is me. Bill said this is onlt temporary in the future they will be developing on something more powerful….yeah, quad multi-core processors Macs from Apple.
M$ is in danger as it will soon be competing not only with Apple and Sony, but also itself. If M$ will turn its XBox 360, which is its most Mac-like hardware (tightly integrated hardware/OS/software), into the so-called ultimate home digital appliance, then this XBox2 will actually compete with x86-based PCs loaded with either Longhorn (if it ever comes out) or XP Media Center Edition. The confused public will not know which way to go, so (hopefully) it will seek comfort in Apple and Sony digital home solutions.
I swear… PT is bipolar…
MDN word: “Paid”… as in PT is a paid M$ shill.
Again another idiot article that I refuse to click on. You give this mangy Microsoft maniac support by clicking on his article.
The best approach to this idiot is to ignore him. I reasd the MDN post and that was it.
Yours in bliss
Oops…looks like Sony has stolen ALL of M$’ thunder with the PS3 announcement last night. As predicted, it totally blows the doors off of the Xbox 360…
What the hell?! XBox 360 and Mac Mini are apples and oranges. I don’t want to move my home office to my living room. I use my Mac to do work! If the Xbox 360 will let me run Photoshop and spreadsheet applications, then fine. Otherwise, what’s Thurrott’s freaking point? Honestly, with the commentary I’ve been seeing lately from some of these supposed tech analysts, I’m thinking any grade school kid with a keyboard could get these jobs and do just as well. Wake me up when I see some EDUCATED analysis of the market!