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The New All Aluminum Mac mini with HDMI

While all of us expected to awaken to iPhone 4 pre-orders, none of us expected a rather serious Mac mini update that’s available online and in stores this morning. Their smallest Mac now features HDMI out and an SD Card Slot - big upgrades for the tiny desktop that make it suitable for hooking up to the big screen. Also included is our usual Nvidia 320M integrated graphics, and the choice of a 2.4GHz or 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo processor, making it 2x faster than the previous model. Firewire 800 also stays on the Mac Mini, but it has lost a USB port with the feature updates - which is fine by me.

But Mac fans such as myself are most excited with Apple’s amazing visual refresh, which casts the Mac mini in an 1.4-inch-thin unibody all-aluminum enclosure over a round rubber panel that allows customer access to replacing RAM. The Apple team completely reinvented the guts by including a new green, space saving power supply which completely eliminates the need for the brick - all you need now is a single straight cable. A powerhouse that only consumes 10 Watts of energy when idle (85W when active), the Mac mini is also Apple’s most energy friendly Mac yet. Cupertino, this is a job well done.

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Apple, Steam, Mac Mini and Gaming - What’s Next?

Apple has released the new Mac mini which features improved graphics and faster performances, amongst many other new features such as the long-awaited unibody enclosure.  Not to mention the HDMI port on the back, which makes the Mac mini “come to the big screen”. As I saw this new iteration of Apple’s little big desktop computer, I couldn’t help but thinking about the direction Apple is going with gaming on Mac OS X.

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The iPad Gets Pre-like Multitasking with ProSwitcher

If you’re running a jailbroken iPhone, I guess that one of the tweaks you installed from Cydia is ProSwitcher. This simple yet powerful utility from Ryan Petrich allows you to switch between apps running in the background using a Palm Pre like “cards” UI, which is undoubtedly useful and easy to use. Just assign an Activator shortcut to it, launch it anywhere on your iPhone and switch between the apps you’ve backgrounded in a matter of seconds.

Now, you can install and use ProSwitcher on the iPad.

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iPhone 4: Unlocked, SIM-free, Expensive In the UK

If you don’t want to commit to a provider for 2 years with the iPhone and you happen to live in Britain, well this is your lucky day. Sort of.

Apple has announced the pricing of the new unlocked and SIM-free models, and as you can guess they’re not cheap. £499 for the 16GB version, £599 for 32GB - with the current conversion rates it’s around $730 for 16GB and $883 for 32GB.

Are you sure you don’t want to commit? [via TechCrunch]

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iPhone 4 Takes Down Apple.com

It seems like the iPhone 4 killed Apple’s website. Since Apple started pre-orders on its new device earlier today, many people reported that the website was slow, unresponsive and that they had to click multiple times to confirms their choices and try to get the order through.

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Apple Confirms: White iPhone 4 Not Available Yet

Apple opened up the pre-orders of the iPhone 4 earlier today, but has also confirmed the rumors we heard yesterday: the white iPhone 4 is not available yet. Whether this means that US customers have to wait a few more weeks or that it will be available by the launch in more countries in July, we don’t know. We seriously hope so though.

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Apple Releases New Mac Mini

We didn’t see this coming, but this morning Apple has released the beautiful and powerful new Mac Mini. Starting at $699, the new Mac Mini features up to 2 times faster graphics, an all new sleek aluminum design, built in power supply, HDMI port, built in SD reader and many, many other stuff. Check out all the details and pictures after the break.

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