Stop the Presses: MAC MINI UPDATED!! Only 1.4" Tall!!

[TheStu]

What does "Support for Apple iPhone headset with microphone" on the specs page mean?

The new laptops have this as well. It means that if you plug your iPhone headset into the Mini, you can use the Mic and also control iTunes with it. More useful on the laptops.

 

[Kaido]

Apple once made a bluetooth headset.

A piece of junk, at that. It had horrible reception and cut into my ear. Apple = no good for mice or BT headsets!

 

[episodic]

I'd really rather have the old size, maybe even a little bigger, and a door on the bottom for RAM upgrades.

There is a door on the bottom for RAM upgrades

 

[episodic]

What do you guys think about the power brick being integrated? Bad or no?

 

[mugs]

There is a door on the bottom for RAM upgrades

Well then, that's awesome. I figure my Mini has another year in it before I turn it into an HTPC or server. Hopefully they'll bump up the specs on this a bit in the next year. They seem to be updating it more frequently than they used to.

 

[sjwaste]

This isn't a particularly good update. $699 for a base mini now? I don't care how small it is. You might as well get a base Macbook and leave the lid down. They added HDMI, but that's not really that big a deal considering it doesn't have BluRay, and many standalone BluRay players will also play Netflix and other streaming content anyway.

Honestly, other than the look/form factor it's a pretty sub-standard offering for the price.

 

[sjwaste]

What does "Support for Apple iPhone headset with microphone" on the specs page mean?

It means that this thing is either a small, underpowered, expensive headless pc OR a giant, overpowered ipod!

I'll probably pick up the older Mini when the refurb prices drop one last time. It certainly was small enough, was available with a comparable CPU, and will cost a ton less.

Upgrading them wasn't hard, either. We used them as portable development and test environments for one of my clients. Swapping drives and RAM wasn't hard.

 

[ViRGE]

As cool as the design is, the price hike just kills it. This makes the most affordable Mac even less affordable.

Edit: And it only has 2GB of RAM? What the heck?

 

[quackagator]

sd in the rear booo

 

[Zaap]

Introducing the most mini Mini yet:

 

[DougoMan]

i agree apple had the wrong design priorities here.

would prefer core i3 at least/2x hard drives/sd card reader in the front..

 

[Zaap]

And it only has 2GB of RAM? What the heck?

And I hate how they use 2x 1GB stock. So assuming two RAM slots, one has to lose 2GB to upgrade to 4GB. Or just pony up $800 total right out of the gate for a Mini with a decent amount of RAM, or a cool G for the better model. In mid 2008 I wouldn't have thought this was all that great a deal.

 

[Zebo]

engadget may be wrong on no power brick. The two prong input is clearly a DC input or AC input with no ground which I've never seen for computers.

And $700 for 4 yrs old tech LOL. I got better than that sitting in a closet around here.

 

[Emulex]

but your girlfriend will say it is so cute and give you a great present when she opens her new mac mini in a box

 

[Tegeril]

i agree apple had the wrong design priorities here.

would prefer core i3 at least/2x hard drives/sd card reader in the front..

Apparently people continue to remain clueless about the Nvidia/Intel situation that doesn't allow Nvidia to make chipsets for Arrandale. If Apple went with the i3, you would have Intel HD Graphics in that thing. As everyone has already gone over with the 13" MBP/MB, that is an unacceptable level of performance for Apple - it's considerably worse than the 9400m.

How many more times does this need to be explained?

 

[alfa147x]

engadget may be wrong on no power brick. The two prong input is clearly a DC input or AC input with no ground which I've never seen for computers.

And $700 for 4 yrs old tech LOL. I got better than that sitting in a closet around here.

Some
Laptops don't ground

 

[alfa147x]

God I kinda want one

 

[Tegeril]

God I kinda want one

Me too, and I have absolutely 0 use for it. I have a perfectly functional Mac Mini (GMA950 C2D) model running a web server right now...and too many other computers to have any valid use for this.

Maybe if they pushed the Apple TV front end into an app you could run on your new unibody Mini...

 

[alfa147x]

Me too, and I have absolutely 0 use for it. I have a perfectly functional Mac Mini (GMA950 C2D) model running a web server right now...and too many other computers to have any valid use for this.

Maybe if they pushed the Apple TV front end into an app you could run on your new unibody Mini...

Does this new one have an IR sensor? I would buy it to run as a NAS (via firewire/usb storage) / Boxee box

 

[Tegeril]

Sadly, there's no mention of IR anywhere.

 

[alfa147x]

Possibly on the server?

 

[IntelCeleron]

It's still in the front of the disc drive.

 

[Patranus]

engadget may be wrong on no power brick. The two prong input is clearly a DC input or AC input with no ground which I've never seen for computers.

And $700 for 4 yrs old tech LOL. I got better than that sitting in a closet around here.

Looks like engadget speaks the truth

 

[Ns1]

And $700 for 4 yrs old tech LOL. I got better than that sitting in a closet around here.

is it 1.4" tall?

 

[alfa147x]

is it 1.4" tall?

pwnd