New Apple Mac Mini Photo Leaked

Ed Sutherland ()

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Another photo of a supposed Apple Mac Mini prototype has surfaced online. The image could give a glimpse into Cupertino’s as-yet unannounced refresh of the popular desktop computer.

The photo shows Apple may be considering beefing up the ports, including adding a fifth USB connection, retaining its mini DVI port as well as its recently-introduced Mini DisplayPort and swapping out a FireWire 400 port for the newer FireWire 400 connection.

“This is the second picture of a Mac mini seen by AppleInsider with such a port makeup, the first of which we were asked not to publish,” the news site told readers Friday. The first photo was described as a prototype from late 2008.

In January, AI reported the new Mac mini would offer both video connections and an NVIDIA chipset.

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A MacRumors user known only as ‘monthly,’ supplied also supplied the photo to that Apple fan site. The user described the prototype as including a 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of DDR3 RAM and an ATA Super Drive.

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  • Ern

    Right now all mac products are outdated (macrumors buyer’s guide) being mac mini the worst case.

    Once the mac mini reaches, maybe next month or year, it will be already outdated compared to other products from Dell, HP, and just another total dissapointment like last MacBook.

    IMHO some serius critizism should be heard about last year apple line up because it has been giving us late overprized underpowered updates.

  • http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/fake-mini.jpg Todd

    this is an obvious fake. hit the link to see the image zoomed with artifacts exposed.

  • ItsGene

    Hmm.
    I thought the point of the Mac mini was to make it easy for legacy PC users to switch to Mac, bringing along their current peripherals?
    How would this be accomplished by putting brand new ports on the mini that no PC users (and realistically, no Mac users) have displays for? So, I buy a mini for only $600 then have to spend $$$ on a DisplayPort monitor to use it with?
    Same goes for including Firewire 800.
    While this configuration of mini might be a dream for techy fan guys like me, it’s not going to fulfill the purpose of the mini: to be an entry-level priced Mac that makes it easy for PC users to switch without having to replace their peripherals.

  • ItsGene

    Also – “RETAINING its mini DVI port?” The mini currently has a standard DVI port. Again, this is because people are expected to bring along their legacy monitor.

  • http://www.gearsandwidgets.com/ phoenix

    @ern: welcome to the Cult of Mac. Your attempt at trolling has been noted. Spellcheck would be suggested.