Apple to follow MS into the living room with 'reborn Mac mini'
Think Secret is predicting that Apple's titchy small Mac mini will be reborn as a media-centre PC at the next Mac Expo in San Francisco (Jan 9-13). It reports that the new Mac mini, code-named Kaleidoscope, will feature an Intel processor and include TiVo-like PVR functionality.
Mac miniThink Secret also reckons that Kaleidoscope will be running a new version of Front Row - the media-player front-end applet. The original (controlled by a tiny wireless remote handset) was introduced by Apple with its fourth-generation all-in-one iMac computers at the October event which also saw the launch of the video iPod and a chargeable video-download service via iTunes. Check out our report from that event if you missed it.
Front Row interface on iMac. Click for short video - QuickTime required
