New Intel-based Mac Mini

I’ll be brief about this. I may be an Apple employee but my site is not another outlet to shill for them when I’m not getting a piece of the marketing budget. 
 
Today, the big announcement was the revision of the Mac Mini. No more G4-based Macs under $500. Now they’re Intel-based Macs starting at $600. Maybe they can get the price lowered in a while because $500 is the magical pricepoint for a “cheap” computer these days. 
 
The main reason why I want to plug this Mac is one of the major revisions to its hardware, an audio-in port! The previous Mini was an awesome, el cheapo Mac, especially for musicians…until you find the lack of an audio-in port. No longer a problem and now I can really recommend this model to cost-sensitive friends I want to really turn on to Garage Band. 
 
Sadly, if you want to run the Adobe bundle of software or Mac OS X Server (like I do for Picayune), this Intel-based system isn’t recommended.