“When it first launched in 2005, the Mac mini was almost unimaginably small,” Ben Lovejoy writes for 9to5Mac.
“The original aim of the machine was to convert owners of desktop Windows machines,” Lovejoy writes. “Because those people already owned monitors, keyboards and other peripherals, selling them just the computer itself would enable them to switch to Mac for far less than the cost of buying an iMac.”
Lovejoy writes, “A system unit that measured just 6.5 inches square and only 2-inches thick was an incredible feat of engineering. Today, however, it looks rather less impressive.”
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