At long last, Apple has answered the calls of all their Mac Mini-loving users, and properly rev’d the the little box that could. The new, unibody wonder, that frankly, looks more like a router than a computer, stands just 1.4 inches tall, but has remarkable specs, given the internal space restraints of the diminutive form factor.

Inside the unibody aluminium bodywork, there’s a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB of RAM (user-expandable to 8GB, thanks to a removable panel at the bottom of the enclosure), and a 320GB hard drive. HDMI-out (yay!) as well as an SD card reader, n-spec wi-fi, a Mini DisplayPort jack, and an NVIDIA GeForce 320M chipset display processor. Apple says:
With 48 processing cores, the NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor delivers up to twice the graphics performance of its predecessor, making Mac mini ideal for graphics intensive applications or visually rich games.
Amazingly, there’s even space in the case, for all the power circuitry, so there’s no power brick required, and as usual there’s a slot-load 8X SuperDrive, handling the DVD and CD tasks.

Hmm… Apart from being a great little desktop computer, the Mini now firmly stomps all over the Apple TV’s turf, and with Google TV announced, but not yet here (great timing btw, Apple), this may be the best home-entertainment center option for many folks.