Mac Mini rumour mill goes into overdrive
A SINGLE BLURRY PICTURE which mysteriously appeared in a forum posting on Mac Rumours a couple of days ago has got the Mac faithful in a tizzy about the possibility on a new Mac Mini finally being released by Apple.
And it's true that the Cupertino company should seriously be considering a major refresh to the long-in-the-tooth Mini, what with everyone + pooch making smaller, more powerful HD capable media centre computers.
But there are two small problems with the pic. The second port from the left is Firewire 800, and Apple has made it quite clear that this particular method of data transfer has gone the way of the floppy disk. And the third and fourth ports are Mini DVI and Mini Displayport. Why bother with both?
If we were being really forensic, we'd also point out that the flashgun highlight on the top lip of the first and second USB ports counting from the left are identical, whereas the other three get gradually bigger and brighter, which smacks of copy and pastery to us.
We call Photoshop shenanigans! µ
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Not the FW-800 ended like floppy but the 400 one!! Inform yourself better.
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.
Isn't there a bigger gap between the 2nd and 3rd usb port (from the left)?
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.
@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...
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.
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!
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?
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2470706/mac_mini_2009_edition/
probably you've already watched the movie, but still...