Engadget how-to: Turn your Mac mini into a media center | PVRblog

Link: Engadget how-to: Turn your Mac mini into a media center | PVRblog.

The home media server is here.  Oops, did Steve Jobs call it a PC?  Why bother, it is a media server/adapter, complete with software solutions for video and audio editing, sharing and so on.  It is small enough to fit in the living room under the TV.  It could use a few more ports and some additional connectivity options (surely WiFi now, UWB maybe, just more hard wired ports, too), but it's a start.

I do not know much about the DRM built into Apple's software, but assuming it can compete with ehhem gold standard Windows Media 9, then we've got a ballgame.  Knowing it's demographic full well:  young, rich, technically aware, into new things, Jobs is obviously looking to capture not more than 3% market share in PCs, but much more in the emerging home network.  Quietly, Apple has announced TV tuners from ATI that sit in one's PC, I mean MAC, rendering your MAC a TV receiver and display and that little mini a conduit for shunting the video around the home, say to that lovely new 32 inch LCD TV.  Sweet sweet stuff.