Yanko designs a new Mac Mini

The Mac Mini is an odd duck in Apple's line-up, often ignored and now possibly discontinued after an almost two year lapse in updates... but its admittedly attractive design has become the baseline for a number of Apple's other products (Time Capsule, Apple TV), each stackably modular.

So I'm interested in this Yanko for the next Mac Mini design. The idea is simple: rather than have the Mac Mini's look inform Apple's other modular devices, it inherits the look of a closed MacBook. A clever addition: an optional MacBook Air-like integrated keyboard and screen could then dock on top.

It's a big stretch, but I could actually imagine Apple doing something like this, making the aluminum MacBook the baseline that informs and ties together the rest of their non-iPod hardware's design.

Don't Die Mac Mini Don't Die [Yanko]