Steve Jobs: The first Mac mini from Apple

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   You know, I wish I had a nickel for every time somebody asks me that.

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   Why doesn't Apple offer a stripped-down Mac that is more affordable?

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   You know, we do offer a stripped-down Mac.

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   You know, there's some of them right there.

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   This is Virginia Tech.

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   It's one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, built with X-SERVs.

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   We just introduced the new 2.3 gigahertz X-SERV last week with X-SAN, our storage area network.

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   But this is not what they have in mind.

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   They want a Mac that's stripped down, no display, maybe no keyboard and mouse,

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    but they have something else in mind.

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    And so today, we think we know what they have in mind, and we're introducing it.

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    It's called the Mac Mini.

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    We think people understood the iPod Mini and we think they're going to understand the Mac Mini just as well.

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    It's a new member of the Mac family and this is what it looks like.

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    It's very, very tiny and it has a combo optical drive, a slot load combo optical drive.

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    so you can not only play DVDs but you can burn CDs as well

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    inside it

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    and it's really beautiful it's got a bunch of cool things to it it's quiet

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    it's got the slot load combo drive it's got firewire and USB 2

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    a modem analog and digital video output

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    Ethernet and it's really tiny so this is a very robust computer

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    but it's very very tiny

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    Matter of fact, let me show you one right now.

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    This is how tiny it is.

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    Now, the Mac Mini is BYODKM.

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    What does that mean?

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    Right?

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    BYODKM

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    It means bring your own display, keyboard and mouse.

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    Okay?

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    We supply the computer, you supply the rest.

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    So, you can take Mac Mini

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    and you can hook it up to, let's say, our 20-inch cinema display.

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    Right?

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    And our keyboard and mouse.

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    But the great thing about Mac Mini

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    is you can hook it up to any industry standard display keyboard and mouse

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    a lot of people already have a display and a usb keyboard and mouse and so that's mac mini

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    will hook up to almost any industry standard display keyboard or mouse and it connects to

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    almost anything on the back you can see headphones firewire usb2 ports analog and

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    digital video out modem ethernet for communications really nice now the Mac

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    mini comes with Mac OS 10 Panther and it comes with the brand new iLife 05

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    and we want to price this Mac so that people that are you know thinking of

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    switching will have no more excuses.

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    People that want a second Mac in their household or a third or a fourth, really

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    going to be easy.

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    So there are two models of the Mac Mini.

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    The first one is $499.

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    And the second one, the second one adds a bigger hard drive and a faster processor

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    for just $100 more at $599.

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    These are the two models of the Mac Mini.

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    This is the most affordable Mac ever.

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    As a matter of fact, it's the cheapest computer Apple's ever offered.

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    It's the most affordable Mac ever.

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    And this is the box it ships in.

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    And it's going to be available a week from this Friday on January 22nd.

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    That's the box.

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    So, that is the new Mac Mini, the newest and most affordable Mac ever.