Steve Jobs, in his keynote at MacWorld Expo today reintroduced a redesigned Mac Cube as the Mac mini.
From MacNN:
Apple introduces Mac mini. New member of Mac family
Slot-load Combo optical drive. Play DVDs, burn CDs.
Quiet. Tiny.
FireWire, ethernet, USB 2.0, both DVI/VGA output.
Very tiny. Height is half the size of an iPod mini.
BYODKM. Bring Your Own Display, Keyboard, Mouse.
First one is $499: 1.25GHz 256MB/40GB More memory and larger hard drive for $599.
Will ship on January 22. Ships in a box smaller than the regular iPod box. 10:36AM Pacific time
From MacRumors:
Mac Mini
very tiny
quiet, fw, usb2, video out, ethernet – very very tiny
pizza box style
analog, digital video out
comes with Panther & iLife 05
half as high as an iPod Mini, surface of a little dish
coming 1st half of 05
1.25 Ghz G4
another at 1.4 Ghz
most important new mac ‘ever’
available Jan 22
prices for mac mini: $499 and $599
$499 with 1.25 G4, 256, 40 gig, Combo
Steve has already covered other rumored announcements like a new word processor and updates to iLife and Keynote.