The Mac mini (lowercase, please) has served as the entry-level option in Apple’s Mac lineup since its introduction in 2005. The system’s modest energy footprint and impressively compact form factor ...

Looking to supercharge your home entertainment setup with the power of the Mac? When shopping or building a media-center Mac or PC, everyone is going to have a different set of requirements. Now that ...

We received a lot of great comments in response to our article on turning a Mac mini into an HTPC that rivals Apple TV. It also brought up some questions that I thought deserved addressing. Something ...

Apple's Mac Mini has been viewed as a legitimate HTPC contender ever since the original model was released years back. People immediately began hacking the mounting options to get them onto the backs ...

At this point in building and reviewing products, I have had my hands in quite a few types and models of cases. Not too long ago I was greeted with an e-mail asking if I would like to review a ...

The HFX Mini will accommodate any ATX motherboard, although it was designed with particularly mini-ATX HTPC motherboards in mind, and in principle will manage to cool any CPU with a TDP of up to ...

The compact PC market is big business these days, with more and more users at home building their own HTPC systems, compact workstations and more. SilverStone already produces many of the best SFF ...

When the old dogs at PC Magazine call something “perfect”, it actually means something. They’ve been reviewing PCs since the Eisenhower administration, so for a HTPC to get a 4.5 out of 5 on their ...

Once upon a time, mini-ITX was king, with everyone trying to build more compact and portable battle stations, then things got big again, really big. Now it’s all tempered glass and RGB. However, the ...

I like to mod it, mod it... After some frustrating reliability issues with my old Phillips DVD Recorder (which involved some shouting, some frantic button pressing and an axe... look, I don't want to ...