Seven Generational Ruminations

I recently bought a Mac Mini to try installing in my living room. It's an experiment to see what having a powerful multimedia device can mean when it's taken away from the office desktop and you try to put it in the living area. It's an interesting experiment and I'll be posting some observations about it later. However I'm finding this CNET NEWS article interesting: Apple, Microsoft have designs on your living room

It discusses product announcements from both Apple and Microsoft last week concerning new devices and services for delivering entertainment to the living room. For years there's been this promise of digitized entertainment products offering us instant access to vast reams of movies or whatnot from the convenience of our living room. Convergence is the buzzword and it's riding a wave of increasingly powerful computer devices where you can embed in a small box computing power that once took rooms full of equipment. This gives the devices around us more flexibility.