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reflows said:

What I want from this product is a lot simpler than you folks. I just want a device that sends digital music to my (wired) home stereo and plays well with my other Apple devices. All it would need to meet my needs is to have a way to output digital music via an aux port or an adapter that fits USB C. That's it! I'd love a replacement for Airport and an ethernet port, but really it just needs to be able to run apps and put out an audio signal somehow and I'd buy it. There are very few devices out there that I've found that will do this and integrate well with Apple. I've used an old iPhone for this, and have a device called a Grace Link that meets what I'm looking for clumsily, but Apple could pull it off a lot more nicely and reliably. I'd rather have an iDevice that does this than to spend a whole lot more on a network receiver that still doesn't integrate well with the apple ecosystem.

Edgecrusherr said:

While there’s a lot of great things about this computer, it’s definitely not perfect. The power button is awkward (which some people care, some don’t, but so immediately disqualifies it from “perfect”). there’s growing reports of issues with the Wi-Fi when you plug into an external drive (which is a pretty big deal, and a major design flaw). Finally, I think we shouldn’t forget about the incredibly overpriced storage upgrades.

I would give the new Mac mini a 3 out 5. To me, there’s many other Macs score higher, and we can’t let Apple off the hook on its flaws, or they’ll never fix them.