Hi<br><br>On Saturday, 24 March 2012, James Linder <<a href="mailto:jam@tigger.ws">jam@tigger.ws</a>> wrote:<br><br>><br>> In all the chit-chat about installing ubuntu on a mac-mini I've never seen HEAT mentioned!<br>
> I found the mini, IIRC throttled to 1.6G, runs so hot that it is a worry.<br>><br><br>I'm not sure what you've done with your mini. But I run a 2010 mac mini, with a C2D 2.4GHz, it idles at below 9W, watching a mpeg2 1080i recording, I see the power usage peaking at 14W at the most.<br>
<br>It runs cool as.<br><br>It is by far the best fronted I've ever used.<br><br>It's running out of the box mythbuntu 11.10. I added nothing extra, everything was working out of the box.<br><br>I use it with a Logitech universal remote.<br>