With all the commotion over the iPhone 5 and new MacBook Pro, Apple’s beloved Mac Mini is still one of the company’s more affordable (yet still powerful) computing options. These geeky modders have taken their old machines and given them new life. Continue reading to see five geeky mods.
Despite being released just hours ago, Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky already received a unit and provides us with some beautiful hands-on pictures as well as early impressions. Click here for first picture in gallery.
We’ll admit, while we like the unibody construction of other Apple products, there’s something especially serious about this design that speaks to us.
[via Engadget]
Aside from all the iPhone 4 hype today, Apple also released an updated Mac Mini. This eco-friendly model features a 1.4-inch thin aluminum unibody enclosure, a built-in power supply, removable panel for easy upgrades, HDMI port, SD card reader. On the inside, you’ll find either a 2.4GHz or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of SDRAM (8GB max.), and an NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory. More information. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Tomorrow (January 23rd) is National Pie Day 2010, and it’s “a fine time to head to the kitchen and bake an apple, pumpkin, pecan, banana cream or cherry pie (America’s top five flavors say the folks at the American Pie Council).” Or, you could be a bit more geeky and back up a Mac Mini apple pie, like the one above. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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Turn your Mac Mini into the ultimate home entertainment solution, with this “Radio and Speaker System”. Featuring “internet radio with access to about 10,000 stations worldwide, 2 front and 3 rear extra USBs and multi card reader, makes it a delectable item.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
Who wouldn’t love having this stackable Radio and Speaker System for Macmini on their table?
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This modder was tired of waiting for Apple to release an aluminum Mac Mini, so he took the task into his own hands. Built from mesh and sheet aluminum, you’ll find an “Aaeon GENE-9310 mobo, an Intel Core Duo T2500 processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 2.5″ Seagate Momentus hard drive” inside the case. Click here for first picture in gallery.
While not running on official Apple hardware, the Hackintosh Jr. gets its looks from the big tower Macs, but at 5.5″ (h) x 7″ (w) x 5″ (d), it’s not much bigger than a Mac Mini.
[via Technabob]
Now that you’ve seen a spy shot of the new Mac Mini, we’ve got a video of the computer to prove its validity. Continue reading to watch.
The Mac mini on video here looks like the new one we saw yesterday with five USB and dual display ports – the one declared fake earlier. This looks pretty convincing.
[via Gizmodo]
Could the above picture be depicting the new Mac Mini? It very well may be, according to a Mac Rumors forum member. Featuring five USB ports, “an Ethernet port, Firewire, Mini DisplayPort and the old style mini DVI Mac display port.”
That seems odd. In any case, if this is real, it looks quite nice – and you can probably bet it’ll run with at least the new Nvidia 9400 graphics chipset found in the newer MacBook and MacBook Pros.
[via Gizmodo]
If Apple were to release an updated Mac Mini, it may look something like Isamu Sanada’s latest design concept. Continue reading to see more. Click here for first picture in gallery.
