Yes, you can run Front Row on a Mac mini

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Yes, you can run Front Row on a Mac mini

by Marc Perton (RSS feed) Oct 25th 2005 at 9:25AM

When Apple released Front Row a couple of weeks ago, one of my gripes was the fact that it would only run on the new iMac. I felt that if Apple wanted to create a media platform to compete with Windows XP MCE, the company should make it more widely available. Apparently, I wasn't alone, since a fellow named Zeno has already tweaked Front Row to get it to work on a Mac mini, using a Bluetooth phone as a remote. I suspect this will be a popular hack, since the mini is the perfect size to work as a living room computer. Now, how about a hack to get the Apple Remote Control working with a mini-hosted IR blaster!

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