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Inside the new mini

Thursday, 17 June 2010

Macworld gets hands-on already with the new Mac mini: out yesterday, the new mini is wider than the previous model but slimmer. It has only a thin power cord and a video adapter. In the process of redesigning the Mac mini’s enclosure, Apple was able to shrink down the power supply and fit it inside the mini itself. 
The new mini is also slightly heavier than the previous model’s enclosure, but the lack of an external power supply allows the new version to shed almost a half-kilo of weight.
The new Mac mini only needs to put out 7A of power at 12V where a 27-inch iMac's supply has to produce 25.8A at the same voltage – it's the most energy efficient Mac so far.
In the picture (reproduced from the Macworld article) the new mini is in the middle, the old mini is on top and the Apple TV is underneath. 
Macworld also posted a slideshow of images that includes the insides. It's easier than ever to take apart 

iTunes 9.2 update is here: It comes with several new features and improvements, including:
• Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go
• Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 and iBooks 1.1
• Organize and sync PDF documents as books. Read PDFs with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4
• Organize your apps on your iOS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes
• Faster back-ups while syncing an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4
• Album artwork improvements make artwork appear more quickly when exploring your library
For information on the security content of this update, please visit this Apple support page.

Apple stepped back a Flash: In the recent Mac OS X 10.6.4 update, Apple misstepped and provided users with the older 10.0.45.2 version of Flash instead of 10.1.53.64.
The later version had security holes patched and was “exploit free” according to Adobe’s director of security and privacy Mark Eakin, but if you’ve updated your Flash player yourself already, you're OK.

One hundred in-depth WWDC articles posted by Apple: The technical sessions from WWDC 2010 offer would-be developers free access to advanced techniques, allowing code monkeys everywhere to better grok the revolutionary technologies in iOS and Mac OS X.
All videos are free for download to registered Apple Developers, and portable on Mac, iPhone, or iPad.

TUAW posts ten tiny and amazing Mac apps you've never heard of: Cool!