And, if I can stand using half-a-dozen remotes instead of just one, I could do without the Harmony 880. RadioShift is another luxury if I’m willing to listen to radio live via iTunes or a Web browser. Toast Titanium is helpful for many things but Handbrake, though slow on this Mac, is a capable ripper and converter. For example, the Mac mini’s 120GB internal hard drive is slow and it doesn’t hold a ton of media, but if much of my media is stored and accessed on network drives, who cares? I could do without both the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid and Turbo.H264 HD if I were willing to use my existing TV connection and TiVo and convert media more slowly. I could throw together something nearly as functional for not a lot more than the price of the mini, however. Some of the components of my Mac mini-based media centerI was after a completely tricked-out Mac media center and that’s what I built.
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