I want a media PC – and by that I mean a PC that controls all the media I watch/listen to/photograph etc. I don’t want a separate Tivo, DVD player, MP3 player, digital photo archive – I want one machine to handle all of this.
Apple are heading in this direction, both in terms of hardware and software – and who better than Apple to provide this most luxurious of items.
The problem is that every attempt at a media PC that I have seen makes an annoying amount of noise – meaning that it gets switched off at ‘bed-time’, and then takes an interminable time to boot, ruining somewhat the spontaneity of waking up to the sound of music.
Please Apple, given that reliable sleep mode never works and instant boot never will, design me a silent machine that I can leave on all the time.