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D-tyme
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Just went to the Apple Store to "test-drive" the new Mac Mini with 1080P content (full screen). A .mp4 running through Quicktime showed CPU usage never peeking above 6% in <top>.
I'm not sure if there is a delta between QT and XBMC's video player, but thats damn impressive.
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I just order one. Im running an old xbox its time to let it go now. Im woundering is it possible to get ps3 remote working with this? Or should i use some other remote?
Livingroom: MacMini Mid summer 2010 4Gb RAM HDMI to Pioneer PDP-434 Plasma 1080i
Kitchen: one xbox 1.1 executer 2.3 chip 120 GB in HD 720p mode
Bedroom: Computer Intel Quad 9400, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GTX260, Vista Ultimate 64, Ubuntu 10.10
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You can use a PS3 remote with Remote Buddy software for sure. I'm not sure if there's another (free) way.
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rdubya
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I just got the new Mini, base version and thought I would report on it's performance. It's working great, I installed the latest nightly and everything streams just fine. All my 1080p scene rips play wonderfully. I have the silver apple remote and fixed the keymap.xml to use it the way I like. The computer sleeps and wakes from sleep quickly, I had to disable the bluetooth checker that would turn on every time the machine woke. Overall it's been a very smooth process. I know this post isn't very technical but just wanted to give a heads up in case someone was on the fence about buying it. It wasn't cheap but it was super easy to get everything cooking. I went from the original Xbox to the AppleTV to this, it was a big upgrade.