Well, I’ve been hunting around for a good Mac Mini on the cheap on ebay for a while… mainly to tinker with, and to get used to running some server environment/apps. If you ask me, once the software gets transparent enough, in The Future every house will have a server/network setup, so I like to be ready.

What I wasn’t expecting was that an 8″ touchscreen display (originally intended for the car) would work out cheaper than an old skool lcd monitor. So I’m looking forward to setting up the mini on a bookshelf, to run mobile user accounts, perhaps some CVS goodness, and hosting all my media with auto-backups via a touch screen that’ll double as a digital picture frame when not in use.

I finally found all this on ebay last night, so maybe I’ll post some pics when it all arrives.