Let’s avoid an OS war and other bits of name calling, but damn, that thing looks cool! I’m certainly going to have to get one as soon as I can scrape up the cash. Oh, and it’s smaller than your average car stereo, so I’m thinking of doing something like this. 
I’m certainly not, but then I wouldn’t get ANY ready-made computer, from any vendor. I like tinkerin’…
However, these look excellent. Far better than the old G4 Cube (and much lighter, too, by all accounts). This is exactly what Apple needed to do to persuade more people to make the Switch. Before now, the only option for a low-end Mac was to buy a 4-year old tower.
First time I’ve seen a car that’s worth less than the computer in it.
Hell YES this PC user is thinking about it. I’m trying to decide whether I want to get it now and purchase an external DVD-R burner, or wait until the next generation comes out, since that will no doubt be the first upgrade they make to it. (My main purpose in buying one is making movies at home.)
One nice thing about the Mac Mini is that you can get a standard KVM switch and run it alongside your usual PC tower. Hell, you can put the Mini inside your PC tower.
It’s already an option with the superdrive
I’m just drooling looking at the pictures.
It’s a shame that other external DVD-writers aren’t compatible with Macs. The Superdrive is painfully slow compared to even low-end writers that are out for PC…
Here’s 3 from CompUsa fer starters, from $119.
LaCie also makes an external dual layer drive and Roxio’s Toast supports dual-layer burning.
err, that would be Pioneer that makes the DL drive, the DVR-108 :smack:
Wow. A 16x external DVD writer, compatible with Macs, for $170.
Makes you wonder how Apple can get away with offering their 4x writer for approximately the same price (unless they’ve dropped price considerably since the last time I looked).
Oh well. That just tells me not to get the Superdrive. The Mini is still spiffy, at least. 
Kind of like this guy did with a G4.
Are you kidding? Just looking at the picture made my pants tight.
I’ve got absolutely no reason to get one of those; my Powerbook is almost as powerful and it’s got a display. If anything, I need to upgrade my PC. But I still really, really want one.
Make sure you know what you’re getting into. Buried in the fine print for iDVD is a note that it doesn’t work with external DVD-R burners, only the SuperDrive.
Yup, except the Mini is almost an add-in card. Hell, imagine if they made one designed to fit in one (or maybe two) of your 5.25" bays.
Then you can do all your ‘Net surfing and office work on the Mac, then switch the KVM to play World O’ Warcraft.
I’m not an exclusive PC person (two PCs, two Macs, like PCs, love Macs) and I’ve already ordered one. I’ll give you my first-hand review when it finally arrives.
Since the newest version if iDVD reportedly lets you save projects as disk images, maybe you can use iDVD for authoring, then use Toast to burn it to a third-party DVD burner?
Someone pointed out that the size of the Mac mini is just small enough to fit in the space of a standard car head unit…
I have a buddy who’s a sales rep for Apple and I’ve already e-mailed him to ask when he’ll finish his orientation, so he can give me the full poop.
OK, so I have no actual reason to even want another 'puter… I mean, this laptop of mine is two years old this month but when I look at the ones out there, the only things on which they beat my baby is bigger HD (and 20G is still 4x what we used to have at the Quantum Chem lab and we did wonders with it!), dual DVD/burner (baby has a DVD, burner is external), and all those wireless things that I don’t need anyway.
And I’m unemployed.
And I know I wouldn’t be able to play my favorite games on a Mac. And Spanish ISP’s don’t even know what the MacOS is.
But darn, that thing looks CUTE!
I’m a sucker for cute machinery, what can I say.
If I could find some way to convert the video-out for use on my TV, I just might get one.
It’d be a great and sufficient box for playing videos and all my backed-up old console games, and free up quite a bit of drive space on the uglybox. The big question, though, would be whether or not to keep OSX on it.
Well, no sooner than I hit the Submit button, I see that Apple sells just such a device on the same page as the Mac Mini.