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More Mac mini

Commenter C. M. Harrington notes that he thinks of the Mac mini as an iServe. He’s in good company as Laurie Duncan at tuaw.com thinks the same way. And her excellent summary of what can and can’t be done with the Mac mini points out that it will boot headless, enabling an iServe type configuration (see also Jason Snell’s article at MacCentral). Buy several and create an inexpensive cluster with Apple’s Xgrid (as Chuck Toporek pointed out).

This cool infographic on how the Mac mini and the iPod shuffle may be the tipping point for Apple has been making the rounds. And from the “wouldn’t it be cool if Apple did this” department, Paul Nixon (note to self: since he works for the UofA, contact him and get together for lunch) has also dreamed up Mac mini stacks, stackable external hard drives for your mini. If Apple doesn’t do it, someone else will…

And it seems that Paul has probably hit the nail on the head, so to speak, as the SF Apple store sold out of their 2,000 iPod shuffles in only 4 hours! And editors at the New York Times and for InfoWorld’s Tom Yager seem to agree.