We received some big promises with the introduction of this new Mac mini. The most exciting included:

Core i5 & i7 Processors

500 & 750 GB HDD or 250 GB SSD

2GB or 4GB DDR3 SDRAM

AMD Radeon HD graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR5 memory (2.5 GHz models only)

Thunderbolt and HDMI ports

SDXC card slot

Apple removed the optical drive from this mini, but would characteristically love to sell you one for an additional $79.