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No one of the 53 viewers have some light on my post?
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MacMini is a very good media server, and very quiet. The remote will even work with the unit behind the TV. The IR remote is very strong/reflective.
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If you use OSX on it you can't get HD audio. If you want HD audio you can run Windows on it it.
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2013-07-12, 19:49
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-12, 19:50 by skrypj.)
I had one for a while, I believe it was a 2012 Server model(dual HDD's instead of DVD+HDD) with the Core2Duo and it was certainly capable of running XBMC. I seriously doubt you would ever hear it unless it got incredibly hot, which should not happen with XBMC. With that said, I came to the realization that I paid a lot of money for not a lot of machine and end up selling it on Craigslist. Going and building your own PC on newegg can save you a substantial amount of money and provide you the same or better performance with better expandability and upgradability. Remember that the Mini is basically just a laptop without a screen. CPU, GPU, HDD and everything else are all mobile hardware and cannot be upgraded down the road(well the HDD can).
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2013-07-12, 20:47
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I picked up a mid 2011 refurbished tossed 8gb of ram and a ssd in that I had lying around. Very pleased. Running w7 due to the 2 wmc protected chans I watch. Everything thing else is xbmc and npvr
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2013-07-16, 12:39
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-16, 12:40 by Sebski.)
thx for alle the replays.
So i have desided to get an mac mini when i get home from vacation.
is it possible and better to dual boot openelec on usb/sdcard to get HD audio , xbmc will be the main thing for the mac mini, the osx is only for full OP sometimes.
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Just change the boot priority to the usb device. When you want to go to osx manually select the os at boot
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I run XBMC over OSX on my 2010 macmini.
Works like a champ.
XBMC on MacMini + <12TB of material displaying on 60" or 150".
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Ok thx for all replyes.
Will check in later when i get it going and report/review
