The 2011 Mac mini is simply awesome! I put two SF-2281 SATA III SSD's in RAID 0 and got speeds of nearly 1GB/s! Stunning. And beautifully small. Just gorgeous. Another example of "Good ridden's, optical drives"!
Can't wait for Ivy Bridge and the new MacBook Pro's: Relieve it from its useless SuperDrive and give us two SATA III bays. To make a laptop even thinner, there are many SSD's that also come in 1.8" variants and except for high-capacity (480+GB 1.8" SSD's) ones, they are equally as scorching fast! ;-)