Comments on: Fake image of new Mac mini might not be fake

By: kansei

kansei — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:29:04 +0000

hrm. Where does the motherboard/processor/ram fit? The current mac mini has the footprint of the DVD drive, but is as tall as it is because that’s the only way to fit a processor, heatsink, and two slots of notebook memory. Sure most products are getting smaller and smaller, but I can only see two ways to get smaller with the current mac mini:
1. ditch the optical drive –I don’t think this is very likely, as the Mac Mini isn’t a companion computer like the Air, it’s a “starter mac” for people who don’t have a mac or don’t have any other computer at all. An external drive would complicate it too much.
2. the processor and at least one of the RAM units will be soldered to the board. The current mini has a processor socket so eliminating that could make it.. 2-3mm thinner. Then using heatpipes to relocate the heatsink to a more empty part of the chassis could probably reduce it another 10-15mm..

but this thing looks way too thin to be believable. I’m very excited though, I do plan on buying one of these the day it comes out. It’ll be my third mini they are great little utility machines. New one will probably replace my home theatre one

By: Likeabite

Likeabite — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:42:13 +0000

Yea i don’t see what the hype is already in a field that has already been explored. But then again Apple fans can make the launching of a pen by JobsCo. seem like the greatest event in human history.

By: sebastien

sebastien — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:25:05 +0000

I am French. I believe wirless blu ray.

By: j

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:06:51 +0000

Twice as productive when they sit at starbucks and pretend to write the next epic movie script or love letters to steve jobs’ testes.
The simpsons parody is spot on I would say. You can’t argue with mac fans. They believe all that is Jobs is holy

By: KenC

KenC — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:46:17 +0000

Photoshop 100%. You can’t fit a DVD drive, a harddrive and a board in there. Even a Macbook can’t do it. Do you really think Apple’s low cost entry is going to have an expensive, aluminum unibody? What for? In a laptop, there are structural reasons to do it. In a desktop, there are none.

By: Rudiger

Rudiger — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:18:31 +0000

Twice as productive? Doing what? Browsing BGR?

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:29:55 +0000

…and yet will make the user twice as productive as Windows PCs costing twice as much…

By: crescentdave

crescentdave — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:38:55 +0000

It’ll have 2 usb, 1 mini display port, no fw, have an anemic 9400m and sport a festive $400 “apple surcharge,” compared to faster, more capacious mini-pc models.

By: BrandonR

BrandonR — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:14:17 +0000

Maybe a side shot? and its longer?

By: gquaglia

gquaglia — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:10:03 +0000

if that top opens to let it air to cool it that would be awesome. i might buy my first mac:)
(if it has a dvi out)

The current “Mini” has a DVI out. The new one will probably have the new mini display port

By: remoo

remoo — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:33:28 +0000

if that top opens to let it air to cool it that would be awesome. i might buy my first mac:)
(if it has a dvi out)

By: GMoney_21

GMoney_21 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:27:26 +0000

I seriously dont get all the “hype” behind apple product development, and the months, days, etc leading up to a product launch. Its a small desktop? Doesnt dell make one? Why the big deal over this? Apple geeks need a new hobby.

That simpsons parody gets more and more real and less parody everyday.

By: paul

paul — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:51:13 +0000

to me it looks like someone photoshopped a photo of a closed MBP and cut it to just show the drive slot.

By: pooptypants

pooptypants — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:41:03 +0000

Soo.. What exactly did this article accomplish? My point exactly, or not..