Any time Apple sends out a
keynote announcement, like yesterday's "
fun new products,"
we kind of brace for impact around HQ for the glut of
bad
photoshops, fake rumors, and general mass hysteria within (and sometimes without) the Mac community. Which is why,
of course, we think it's so funny that the day after this announcement MacDailyNews gets some blurry cameraphone shots
(they're always blurry cameraphone shots, aren't they?) of a new Apple Media Cube -- the box you see above, with a
bunch of ports on the back side, and the intention to make it do something "media-related." Ok, we'll skip
past the very-likely-it's-fake and the looks-like-a-cardboard-box spiels and get to the meat: yes, Jobs does love Cubes
-- in fact, he's obsessed with them -- and yes, the Mac mini would never have enough room to become a full DVR. Where
would the tuner(s) go, where would the 3.5-inch drive go? So if we're to pretend, dear reader, that this is real, could
this then be the Mac mini media center box we've been waiting for?
[Thanks, Jimmie]
posted February 22nd 2006 8:44AM
Dont they give out apples at the special olympics complete with the drool proof keyboards? The no sharp edges are to keep ya from hurting yourselves.
That's hilarious. Somebody posts an image of the Apple design award, and people go crazy. Hope nobody photoshop's an iTurd and sends everyone into a tizzy.
In answer to your query, it's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response. (pause) Shall we continue?
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://somersrental.com/html/rental/tables/thumbnails/2633-Silver-24x24x24-Cube.jpg&imgrefurl=http://somersrental.com/html/rental/tables/index_3.html&h=105&w=102&sz=2&tbnid=2qcUTQMJC-LFIM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=76&hl=en&ei=5sL8Q82oNaaMiAHWo-WbDQ&sig2=xyq1g8DxMFpxEXZVyK3wvw&start=39&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsilver%2Bcube%2Bon%2Btable%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN
found it on google images...
That's the Apple design award morons.
I'm not holding my breath for an Apple media center. Front Row is a joke, and OSX does not run all the superb video post-processing tools such as FFdshow and Descaler that are available on Windows. Go have a look at the home theater computer forums at avscience.com. Go to the Mac HTPC board and read all the comments by disgusted mac users about the poor quality of the Apple software DVD player.
I-cube