I find it hard to get worked up over this. I had one of the original Mini's in 2005 and found it an interesting novelty but little else. How about worrying over whether it's got one memory slot or two? How about Blu-Ray? (not). Having to use a an adpater for the display is nothing new, anyone remember ADC on the early Cinema Studio displays?
A 1080p capable Imac mini would be highly desirable for a lot of people into HTPC. Even better if it would come with a blu-ray drive... Let's twist our thumbs!
What drives me crazy about this supposedly backside of the upcoming mini is that someone would think (and believable) that Apple, the wonderfully intuitive, simple and straightforward engineering marvel that it is, would think to make a computer with no display out whatsoever without an adapter. The thought of this is mind boggling. Maybe its ok on a laptop where it has a built in display, but its not. Why is Apple so retarded sometimes. Mighty mouse anyone? I do not care about all the god damn buttons. That thing's sensor cannot work smoothly when its used on mouse pad for god's sake. Its a piece of crap.
@engineer: not if you apply a chroma noise filter after manipulating the original image.
Assuming it's a fake anyway - who cares, really? One day the real article will appear...
Looks legit. You'd have a hard time faking the consistent chroma noise distribution across the image that is characteristics of all CMOS imaging sensors.
Considering angle of the PSU connector, the picture seems to be shot with quite wide-angle lens. This tends to have pronounced field curvature which may "deform" the flash highlights differently depending on distance from the center of the picture. In more detail, the few USB ports closer to the center are slightly out of focus, that's why the highlight is not so strong. The farer the port is from the center of the picture, the more in focus it is, and the stronger the highlight is.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2470706/mac_mini_2009_edition/
probably you've already watched the movie, but still...
I find it hard to get worked up over this. I had one of the original Mini's in 2005 and found it an interesting novelty but little else. How about worrying over whether it's got one memory slot or two? How about Blu-Ray? (not). Having to use a an adpater for the display is nothing new, anyone remember ADC on the early Cinema Studio displays?
A 1080p capable Imac mini would be highly desirable for a lot of people into HTPC. Even better if it would come with a blu-ray drive... Let's twist our thumbs!
What drives me crazy about this supposedly backside of the upcoming mini is that someone would think (and believable) that Apple, the wonderfully intuitive, simple and straightforward engineering marvel that it is, would think to make a computer with no display out whatsoever without an adapter. The thought of this is mind boggling. Maybe its ok on a laptop where it has a built in display, but its not. Why is Apple so retarded sometimes. Mighty mouse anyone? I do not care about all the god damn buttons. That thing's sensor cannot work smoothly when its used on mouse pad for god's sake. Its a piece of crap.
@engineer: not if you apply a chroma noise filter after manipulating the original image.
Assuming it's a fake anyway - who cares, really? One day the real article will appear...
Looks legit. You'd have a hard time faking the consistent chroma noise distribution across the image that is characteristics of all CMOS imaging sensors.
Isn't there a bigger gap between the 2nd and 3rd usb port (from the left)?
Considering angle of the PSU connector, the picture seems to be shot with quite wide-angle lens. This tends to have pronounced field curvature which may "deform" the flash highlights differently depending on distance from the center of the picture. In more detail, the few USB ports closer to the center are slightly out of focus, that's why the highlight is not so strong. The farer the port is from the center of the picture, the more in focus it is, and the stronger the highlight is.
Not the FW-800 ended like floppy but the 400 one!! Inform yourself better.