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my first mac was the macmini since then I have had a blackbook, macbook unibody 13", imac 21" and a macbook air.
HTPC... that's why I'm buying one.
Has no-one here actually used one? Are you simply looking at specs and ignoring usage scenarios?
Even then, 350 starting price with an i5 seems very reasonable to me...
OSX handles video soooooooo much better than windows, even with XBMC refresh rate matching or reclock.
HTPC... that's why I'm buying one.
Has no-one here actually used one? Are you simply looking at specs and ignoring usage scenarios?
Even then, 350 starting price with an i5 seems very reasonable to me...
OSX handles video soooooooo much better than windows, even with XBMC refresh rate matching or reclock.
Silly choice for a HTPC. You can get all the hardware you need for a fraction of the price, and OS X is poor for video playback (don't know what he's on about), let alone full HTPC use. There are far better platforms and packages.
Works fine for me. Please tell me why it's so poor?
Then I'm happy for you. I never said it didn't "work" whatever that means.
OS X has poor playback software, renderers and drivers. You'll never get the playback quality that you can using Windows say, I still don't think you can even avoid judder as you can't use 23.976Hz. On top of this you're missing all the added control to make things look better still, or to suit your preference, and the endless tools and options to make your whole HTPC work just as you like.
the 2.6 should give a bit better cpu power but hardly any extra gpu power, only difference between the gpu's is 1.1ghz vs 1.2ghz.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-4260U+@+1.40GHz&id=2238
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-4278U+@+2.60GHz
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7072/intel-hd-5000-vs-hd-4000-vs-hd-4400
Every computer / tablet / phone is Mac except my HTPC.
Why pay for apple hardware when Openelec software does so well?
Silly choice for a HTPC. You can get all the hardware you need for a fraction of the price, and OS X is poor for video playback (don't know what he's on about), let alone full HTPC use. There are far better platforms and packages.
Then I'm happy for you. I never said it didn't "work" whatever that means.
OS X has poor playback software, renderers and drivers. You'll never get the playback quality that you can using Windows say, I still don't think you can even avoid judder as you can't use 23.976Hz. On top of this you're missing all the added control to make things look better still, or to suit your preference, and the endless tools and options to make your whole HTPC work just as you like.
Not had any issues with 'judder', Mac mini is set up perfectly as a media tv player or HTPC as you like to call it.
Not really sure what point you're getting at apart from the price.
Then I'm happy for you. I never said it didn't "work" whatever that means.
OS X has poor playback software, renderers and drivers. You'll never get the playback quality that you can using Windows say, I still don't think you can even avoid judder as you can't use 23.976Hz. On top of this you're missing all the added control to make things look better still, or to suit your preference, and the endless tools and options to make your whole HTPC work just as you like.
Inference was it didn't work due to the "poor for video playback" comment.
No I do. Technically if it's not hitting a perfect 23.976Hz you'll get a skipped frame perhaps every 40/50 seconds. I can't see any sign of that or tearing or any other artifacts. Perhaps the TV processing is sorting it out, I dunno. I'm happy with it, it works better than XBMC did on a Windows box in my opinion.
Netflix? I'll watch that on the PS3. Silverlight sucks balls. On any platform.