The hype surrounding Apple’s products continue to increase with each event – not so much for me anymore. We have the iPhone, we have great MacBook’s, how can things really get that much better?
The newly rejuvenated Mac Mini enters the room – with the same small, minimalistic design – quiet attitude and cpu power with a punch in the mouth. Well, maybe it’s just a delicate love-tap in the jaw 
It’s a welcomed improvement to see a dual-core processor along with the speed – but it’s not the quad-core (yet) which is what we’ve really been waiting for.
The unboxing of the mac-mini was very uneventful – turning the unit around revealed a nice touch with the added USB Ports, but one port in particular – this mini-HDMI port.
Really, Apple?
If you’re going to allow us to connect this to a HDTV, why not use a standard HDMI port then? Oh, because you want us to buy your freakin’ cables!
Let’s try this instead: Increase the price of the box by the $0.25 it would cost to have a real HDMI port instead; I’ll round-up the cost to $1 and pay for it myself.
To finish out this min-review, the install of Microsoft Office was zippy fast, the OSX Updates were smooth like my Mac Book Pro – It’s very nice to have more than just 1GB of RAM (it came with 2GB) and see it really fire up!
This mac was not actually purchased by me, but rather a good friend here at the office, mine hasn’t arrived yet. (Go check out his Music Blog at RelentlessEarworm.com)
At the end of the day, it’s a good quality machine that will serve for years to come. Would I buy 2 more of these: YES. Should you buy one? I’d say yes.
Want to read more about the new 2009 Mac Mini including tear-downs and benchmark information? You won’t find it here – but you can find it over at Gizmodo, they always have great stuff like that.
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So I’m about one week into owning the Mac Mini. Overall I have to say it’s a good machine. I connected it to a 32″ LCD TV. Only problem is that if you’re going to connect a computer to a TV, buy a 1080 pixel TV vs. the 720 pixel TV I’m using. Your web-browsing, document-writing experience will be improved.
Completely agree with your comments that the machine needs an actual HDMI out. It’s ridiculous that I had to purchase a mini-DVI to HDMI connector from monoprice.com to connect this machine to my TV. PLUS, I still had to fish separate audio cable through my wall and plug it into my TV using RCA connectors. So digital out to analog in. Stupid design.
But the rest of the machine works well. Multi-tasking is easy and it can handle simultaneous iTune listening, web browsing, DVD playing and document working without coughing like a swine flu sufferer. Pretty slick.