This is awesome. I only wish I had waited to buy it instead of buying it last November. <sigh> Still, it sounds like they addressed the flaws I saw in it, namely the lack of an sd card slot. I'm excited, and I'll have to check it out when I next visit the apple store.
Friendly, Chris On Jun 18, 2010, at 4:11 AM, Rob Lambert wrote: > Apple has redesigned it's mac mini. It's now shorter (at just over an inch > thick), but also wider (at approximately 7.1" square). The big thing on this > one is, on the bottom, there is a round cover. Twist this cover, and remove > it, and you are immediately granted access to the RAM. There is also a model > range cut for the mini. You now just have the one lower priced (what I call > "consumer") model at $699, and then the server at $999. There's also an SD > card slot on the back (come in from the left hand side, and it's on the top, > above the two round audio ports). Finally, keep going beyond the SD card, > towards the right. You will first find four USB 2.0 ports, and beyond the > furthest right port (or the one closest to the center of the back of the > Mini, however you prefer) there are two ports. One is the mini DVI port > that's found on Apple's MacBook Pro. The one to the right of that is long, > rectangular, and has an angular shape on the bottom. This is Apple's brand > new HDMI port. This means that, if you have an HD TV, you can hook up your > Mini and use your HD TV as the monitor. A full port description is as > follows. If you come in from the right hand side, the back has the following > ports from right to left: Power (switch), power (A/C adapter port), ethernet, > Firewire 800 (the horizontal long line below this is a cooling vent), then > thee's the HDMI port that I spoke of earlier, and the Mini DVI port. Finally, > following on from the DVI port, again proceeding to the left, there is the > four USB ports, and an SD card slot, and that's where you will see the left > edge of your Mini. Below the SD card slot are two audio jacks. The one > closest to the edge is headphone, and the one closest to the center is > line-in. More info can be found at http://www.apple.com/macmini/ I'm curious > about your opinion on this. For those who don't know, the Mini has been > around since 2005, and this is it's first full redesign in five years. In my > opinion, it was way overdue, and I'm glad they finally got around to it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
