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Please try to keep your inner Fanboy under control and add some unbiased opinion to your reports.

Ahhhh...to be a blogger with a Mac, it must be so exciting and liberating.

You call the MacBook pro the "Ultimate HD Machine", funny you don't call it a DVR or PV or TV or HTPC or even worstation. So what exactly is an "HD Machine" used for?

As for the MacMini being the ultimate HD HTPC, I notice it has a tiny hard drive, no PVR software, and no tuning or capture cards of any type.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow's headline: iPod HiFi - the ultimate audophile sound machine.

:)

]]>Mar 2nd 2006 1:27PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/Mar 2nd 2006 1:35PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/Thanks for your comments. My ultimate HTPC woudln't have a PVR of any kind. I would download all my HD content or play it off a optical disk. It would be small, slick and easy to use. The new Mac's are the closest to that so far.

PVR's are an interm technology to deal with the lack of downloadable content.

A HD machine is a box in which a person watches HD on. The MacBook Pro is one of the first laptops that has enough power to watch HD encoded h.264 material (important for downloadable content) and has enough power left over to use as a computer. ]]>Mar 2nd 2006 1:36PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/Intel (on any platform)

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Gentlemen, I see no need to turn this venue into Mac vs. PC trolling battleground (gosh, I wonder how many million boards are out there where you can do that?). So you don't like word "ultimate" in the title, so what? So there's a bunch of mac news this week, so what? Apple doesn't make HD news that often anyway. Big deal.

Should we all go back to arguing about HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray again? That'll be way interesting . . . again.]]>Mar 2nd 2006 3:51PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/
That being said, this was not a comparison, it was a review of HD playback on a MacBook pro. Ok maybe "Ultimate" wasn't a good choice for words since it implies a comparison, but I see nothing wrong with explaining how well the MacBook pro decodes HDTV video. If I had another Core Dou laptop I would compare them.

I do see your point and I will try to refrain from using words like "ultimate" or "perfect" in my future Mac related titles.]]>Mar 2nd 2006 3:59PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/
I do take issue with Mac fanatics claiming the Apple has invented the ultimate (insert new product here) everytime they announce a new product. Most times these people do not own or use PC's so they are not qualified to judge either way. I use both and I choose the best tool for the job and at this point that is a PC. Show me the OSX versions of Powerstrip, Girder, FFDshow, etc, I could go on and on. Today I have a 4 tuner server that records NTSC and ATCS, schedules recordings, burns them to discs plus distributes gigs and gigs of stored content to just about every room in my house.

I love these gadget sites but if if I keep reading this kind of uninformed crap I will go elsewhere.
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Dare I say that you are just as fanatical about your "ultimate system" as you have accused Ben of being. Don't like what you're reading? Go ahead and find a new place to shop and stop complaining. Sheesh. Oh, and here's my smiley face too, just like in your first post, so I can also pretend the intent of this comment was all in jest.

:)]]>Mar 2nd 2006 10:29PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/Mar 2nd 2006 10:29PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/Mar 2nd 2006 10:53PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/Mar 2nd 2006 11:58PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/The OSX Firewire SDK includes software called VirtualDVHS that makes it possible.]]>Mar 3rd 2006 12:01AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/Mar 3rd 2006 10:03AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/
It's obvious I touched a sensitive spot. As soon as I started to talk aboud real world tools that comprise an HTPC you run from that argument and tell me to get lost.
When someone calls the MacMini the ultimate HTPC then I start to ask about flexible infared control, image postprocessing and extensive monitor flexibility.

I'm only trying to point out that there is much more to a HTPC than just an HDMI connection.

Also the smiley face was referring to the iPod HiFi headline...An yes that was in jest. ]]>Mar 3rd 2006 11:00AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/I was using QT's MPEG2 plugin and their H.264 plugin.
I was using a beta DivX codec from the DivX homepage and a beta Xvid codec from http://n.ethz.ch/student/naegelic/

I am not using any external equipment. I did capture via Firewire you can check out my hd content article here from a few weeks ago for details on how to do that.]]>Mar 3rd 2006 3:12PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/
Does anybody forsee the pertinent software modifications being ironed out so that the hardware being put into the MacBook Pros can REALLY be utilized for HD? If that happens and the screen resolution is upped I'm sold!]]>Mar 28th 2006 11:12AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/Apr 4th 2006 2:51AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/02/macbook-pro-the-ultimate-portable-hd-machine/I am new to the macs and I would lilke to know how to use HD.
Talking about how great one and the other is!!
well, on the new mac with Intel cpu you can install windows, That is just to make everyone happy.
I respect everyones opinion about OSs

I think MAC OS is Simply THE BEST!
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