Iomega's MiniMax Desktop Hard Drive for the Mac mini

There are already plenty of special friends vying for a chance to spend a little QT with the Mac mini (we've lost track of how many different Mac mini hubs and external hard drives have come out over the past eight months or so), but Iomega figures there's still room for the MiniMax Desktop Hard Drive, a new 250GB external hard drive that can connect up to a Mac mini via either Firewire or USB 2.0. Should be out sometime in Q4 of this year.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

Based on the description, it seems like it's just an Iomega branded version of this unit.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ministack/

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

Wow Iomega is still around?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

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It probably comes with a 6 foot firewire cable that, when bundled up behind the drive, is larger than the drive itself...
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[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

what? no mac mini ZIP drive?? :)

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

As soon as they build Tivo functionality into something like this... er, i guess I'll buy it.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

TiVo functionality? The bottleneck to the Mac Mini becoming an HD "TiVo killer" is the G4 processor. If they bumped it up to a G5, then it would have decent power to encode/decode H.264. But you'd still need a settop box and compatibility with DRM'ed HDMI on the satellite side, or use the Firewire output on a Motorola set top box if you went through Comcast.

The stackable hard drive footprint makes me chuckle. Brings back memories of the Atari MegaST line.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

the pic almost looks like the macMini is on a glass desk and the hd is a mirror image.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

#6 - Yeah but if they bumped it up to G5 they'd have to start selling it as a hotplate instead of a computer.

The HDD does look pretty cool though. I'm trying real hard to come with an excuse to get a Mini...nothing yet.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

"Wow Iomega is still around?"

ROTFL... I want a Mac Mini, now! I'm ready to add a Mac to my set-up

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

*PC user walks into friends' house, sees Mac mini with Iomega HD

"Hey you got one of those new Iomega computers---"

*PC user gets whacked in the head with a baseball bat for being so ignorant.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

#10
right...