twokidsmanybruises

No problem at all with the MacMini being smaller, but there's two things that have me screaming"Nooooo!":

1. A power supply brick?  Why?  One of the best things Apple did was moving the power supply inside when switching to the unibody form factor for the Mac Mini. (As was moving the power supply inside for the Airport Extreme and Time Capsule.)  As said above, a standard power cable is easy to replace, we've probably all got more than few lying around at home. But, more importantly, it made the Mac mini far more portable. It's a desktop machine, but it's also handy as a server, and being portable it's an excellent machine for cooling up to a projector at events, on-site etc. Putting a brick back on it is a huge step backwards.

2. Plexiglas top?  Why? I can't see any reason or purpose to this, other than to make it look "different". Again, it's a step backwards. The Aluminium unibody was as minimalist as it got, but it's a very pretty design, and functionally, it's neat, very easy to store, even the ports around the back makes tidy cabling easy.  I can only imagine the plexiglass allows for colours, but it's purely decorative on something that doesn't need to be any more pretty than it already is.