I agree, very informative and good article. I am not a AV guy, but using my mac mini i started to do the same thing described in the article. rather than byuin

I agree, very informative and good article. I am not a AV guy, but using my mac mini i started to do the same thing described in the article. rather than byuing an internal hdd, i simply connected a 1tb external drive (silent, sdd). at first I didn't think about it, but this enabled me to: - Need to transfer files to one of my Windows machines? Simply unplug the hdd from the mac and plug into the Winbox - Travelling? Take my entire library of stuff with me. No need for DropBox, etc. This works offline, anywhere. Sounds low tech and slightly too simple, but I'd love to expand this to other functionalities. An external graphics card would be awesome, play games on any machine I want (Mini or Air...). I've built my own gaming PCs, but by now I would really prefer something more modular, easy, true plug and play.