mac mini should have optical out

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mightyjlr

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I think Apple should really make the mac mini with an optical output, like on the Airport Express. If I could get 5.1 sound out of it, it would be a fabulous home theater pc. What does everyone think?
 
I agree. This was just one of a number of surprising things left out of the design. Among others, the hard-drive interface which means that an external firewire drive can transfer quite a lot faster than the built in drive, the need for a riser card for bluetooth and Airport Extreme as opposed to just putting the slots onto the mainboard, and the not-so-easy-to-open casing, which goes against Apple's current push towards cases that are easy to open and exchange parts on.

Still, the ommission of optical out, as featured on the iMac and Airport Express, is a really odd oversight. I always assumed they did that to actually sell more Airport Express units to Mac Mini owners down the road.

That said, there are third party Firewire connected 5.1 digital output boxes, that you could use to connect to your home theatre.
 
I also think that they should have put a optical output as well as making the case eaiser to open. It's going to be interesting when upgrading the RAM :mad:.
 
Also you would have to investigate how much power an Optical Port to see it would be a strain on the battery.
 
i think an optical port, like gbit ethernet and FW800 etc should be reson to spend more money on the imac/powermac. there needs to be some reason to invest, otherwise everyone would get mini's over powermacs. also, no dell will ever have optical 5.1 standard, so it's not like the target market really wants it.
 
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