Next, I had to decide on a TV tuner/PVR (personal video recorder) to replace my VCR. sold me a couple of replacements (I wanted a spare) and the miniStack is as good as new. Lastly, one of the fans went bad in my second miniStack. I'm now using the miniStack 1 TB RAID under my Mac Mini as my media center drive, and backing it up to the internal 2 TB drive on the G4. I then bought a SATA PCI card for my Quicksilver G4 and a 2 TB internal drive. I bought an external USB drive, backed up the miniStack to it, erased the miniStack and my second miniStack 500 GB drive, and created a RAID 0 (striped RAID) 1 TB set out of both of them using Apple's Disk Utility. UPDATE 3/20/10- After 4 years of adding music, photos, and movies to my miniStack, the 500 GB capacity was nearly completely filled up. Having installed numerous Mac Minis for schools and families, the only difference that I could find in the packaging was the inclusion of the Front Row remote control. On the very day that Apple announced their Front Row media center enabled Mac Mini, I ordered one from the online Apple store. *Prices have been updated to reflect current costsĮver since the moment that Steve Jobs demonstrated the Apple media center software, Front Row, I had been looking forward to replacing my television's DVD and VCR player with an all in one media center device from Apple. Having a Media Center That is Small, Quiet, and Aesthetically Pleasing- Priceless Microsoft Wireless Multimedia Keyboard and Mouse

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Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics with DVI port Slot-loading SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) Mac Mini Core Duo, Newer Technology miniStack v2, and Elgato EyeTV HDĭual Core 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo processor

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