“More specifically, prototypes of a new Mac mini — Apple’s smallest and most affordable system, commonly employed by tech savvy Mac users as an ad-hoc living room media server, has been making the rounds with an HDMI port in place of its legacy DVI connector, according to two people familiar with the matter,” Jade and McLean report. “Only Apple TV [currently] provides an HDMI connector capable of delivering both audio and video signals to an HDMI display.”
Jade and McLean report, “However, another product floating around Apple’s labs is a proprietary mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter that the Mac maker had originally developed and intended to ship alongside its most recent iMac revision, according to people with knowledge of the situation. It’s said to include technology that would allows Macs shipping with an updated mini DisplayPort spec to channel both video and audio through the mini Display port to the HDMI adapter, rather than just video.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Andrew W.” for the heads up.]