Industrial design meets copyright protection.
Includes some kind of content protection scheme which is why probably why Bill is interested
Form looks interesting with plug and play module - wonder if we can run OS 10.6 on it ..... some day




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You could do something similar with the mini, given a slight redesign for proper ventilation. That said, I'd love to see something more modular -- a friend asked why the mini doesn't just have a connector dock on the top and bottom so you can add peripherals without cables? Interesting.

a rack width mini dock with removable hot swap modules would be perfect for the home media crowd

a mimi in a rack wit 6 HDs would rock - one in t mini and the rest swappable
and make the swap racks stackable for future expansion

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ahhh - interesting from the first link -



Son earned a bachelor's degree in industrial design from Kookmin University in South Korea. Before coming to Purdue, he worked at the Daewoo Electronics Design Center in Seoul and was senior designer at a design consultancy firm for five years.

Son and Shim were colleagues at Daewoo Electronics Design Center, where Shim worked for six years before coming to Purdue in 2003. He earned his bachelor's degree in industrial design from the University of Illinois-Chicago and a master's degree in design development from Ohio State University.

Shim also was part of a team last spring that won the grand prize at the Ninth International Bicycle Design Competition in Taiwan with a new design called SHIFT. The design, which topped 853 entrants from 56 countries to win the $15,000 prize, looks like a tricycle, but as the child gains momentum and learns to balance, the two rear wheels shift inward to merge into one wheel. This causes the balance to gradually shift from the bicycle to the child. SHIFT also was included among the most innovative inventions in 2005 by Time magazine.

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I'd take a mini IN a 1u rackspace package. No need for an optical drive, but two 3.5" 400gb ide's would be super sweet. Add to that a plethora of video (WITHOUT the stupid Apple video converters) and audio out capabilities (analog, svid, vga, hdmi, dig coax, tos...). Most dvd players do this, so there's no reason that a computer in dvd clothing couldn't.

apple did some models with the tower on the floor and the monitor had a tray that stuff connected , it was dark grey if i remember