By The Way...

Those cute new Mini Macs are beginning to turn up in the darndest places:

In Sloatsburg, New York, Melvin Benzaquen sees the mini as the perfect "brain" for a high-end in-car entertainment system.

Benzaquen is president of Classic Restorations, which has shoehorned several laptops and computers into customers' cars, but sees great opportunity with the mini.

"When I saw the mini -- the dimensions and the specs -- I thought, this is perfect for the car," said Benzaquen. "I'd be surprised if Apple didn't think of installing it in a car, it's so perfect.... You don't have to do anything except mount it and plug it in. It even has voice-recognition built in. It's almost too easy."

I have to admit that I have no earthly reason for needing a Mini Mac, and yet I am sorely tempted to get one; that's good marketing by Apple (or bad judgment on my part, or some combination thereof). I do think the size of the computer is going to be the reason that Apple will end up selling a bunch -- and of course, people will find ways of making that tiny computer do ridiculous things in ridiculous places. I can't wait to see where these things show up next.

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• #2 Comment from pixiedustnme 
  1/25/05 6:28 PM | Permalink

  I'm not a mac person, tried to use one once, and while they looked deceptively like a windows operation....i was SO confused.  But there is something hypnotic about these adorable little MiniMacs.  I feel like I must own one!
• #1 Comment from kevinq2000 
  1/25/05 12:43 PM | Permalink

  What will be interesting are the ways in which people use the innards of the mac mini in new cases (think the George Foreman iGrill: igrill.co.uk, or the fine folks at mini-itx.com).  The board for the mac mini is smaller (I think) than the mini-itx board, so it will be good to see all the different places it can go.
  
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