They showed up in cars and alongside DVD players in home entertainment setups. While I believe many switchers did purchase a Mac mini as their entrance into the Mac OS X ecosystem, the small computer soon garnered a large fan base. All of this was packed into a computer just 2 inches tall and 6.5 inches wide and deep.Īt this point the iMac and Power Mac were both sporting G5 processors, but the Mac mini’s reduced specs helped Apple hit that amazing price point. Both initial models came with a Combo optical drive that could read DVDs and burn CDs. The original Mac mini was powered by a 1.25 or 1.42 GHz G4 processor, came with a slow 4200 RPM hard drive and just 256 MB of RAM installed.

Introduced in 2005, the Mac mini was unlike anything else Apple was selling at the time.