Macworld San Francisco 2005-The Mac mini Introduction

Here we see Steve Jobs introducing the first ever Mac mini computer.

[@terrry9709]

he's so casual ''so like people want a cheap small mac so heres the mac mini enjoy.''

[@colmsmyth3234]

I love how Steve was like it's called the Mac mini *laughter* and then people were like oh shit he's serious

[@AllUsernamesTaken]

Reminds me of the macOS High Sierra announcement

[@kentatakao6863]

Yeah, making a definite statement about it being a "stripped down" Mac had people confused because Jobs would normally brag about the power of the electronics made by Apple.

[@atoomy54]

Colm Smyth 😂

[@ztjaenisch]

yeah most people have low IQs

[@AJ-wg7fj]

Misrepresentation.

[@toxy3580]

This was one of the most bizzarely casual Mac launches ever

[@TechWalker]

The beauty of Macworld launches. All of them were more casual than any press launch Apple has done.

[@sriramsundar8388]

Most savage Mac launches ever

[@leenevin8451]

this video was uploaded when this was new

[@wright96d]

Thank you for pointing that out.

[@nomadben]

Well, a year after

[@sjhdfbasndf986]

damn, time flizzles

[@sriramsundar8388]

Oh yeah damn! Around 14 years ago!

[@deerenzo]

Back then KZbin were full of bad quality uploaded videos like this one. I often tried to find some good quality music to download. But I ended up like this.

[@gerolsteiner91]

when my mom got her mac mini and unwrapped it, she just was like "that's all?" :D

[@Pejelo]

Bruh

[@Youngnathaniel449]

@@Pejelo lol

[@beedslolkuntus2070]

Faz-Gaming You guys realize you are replying to probably which is a dead account anyway, but 11 years old.

[@Youngnathaniel449]

@@beedslolkuntus2070 I just realized that this comment is from 2009

[@beedslolkuntus2070]

Faz-Gaming Exactly what I was saying 😂

[@geowal91]

Back when people cheered for apples pricing

[@stardust6004]

geowal91 Yeah - but because of it’s Pricing being fair + 10-20% but Not greedy.

[@annr4306]

@@stardust6004 how was it less "greedy" than it is today? their products are priced similarly to their competitors. I think people have gotten a twisted sense of prices due to Amazon. You have a lot of companies making cheap computers, because their goal is influence, not profit. Apple still wants high profits.

[@nitinanku]

jonny j Have you even seen phones’ prices recently? They are literally the same price and now we have the £400 SE and the £700 11 as well to drop the price below competitors

[@antoniocastrojimenez8366]

krishnugget that is because they were the first one to introduce a 1k phone (iPhoneX) driving the prices of the whole market up....previous best phone form Apple was max 800 and plummm 2 hundred extra within one generation...ridiculous. They realized not everyone is willing to pay those prices and have to go back and release phones which people can actually afford

[@nitinanku]

Antonio Castro Jiménez I think they rather released expensive phones to get the competition to raise their prices while quickly dropping back in price while their competitors are at much higher prices

[@hansdoreen]

I have a feeling that the audience thought Mac mini was a joke by Jobs in the beginning.

[@thejackamo]

oh man, i remember this announcement was the one that put me over the edge and convinced me to buy an apple. a month after it was announced, i went out and got a 1.42ghz model. almost 4 years, and 8 macs later, switching was the best decision i've made. viva la mini

[@sriramsundar8388]

The first reply in this section for over a decade later.

[@robinwalia5361]

@@sriramsundar8388 can't believe I didn't reply earlier, I'm sad when I'm not first!

[@justinfuhrmann13]

It’s crazy that this comment is 4 years after the video release and my comment is 11 years after comment release

[@mohdwahidi]

Wow, 11 year comment. Wrote this on 2020

[@therobster6069]

...so we're not gonna talk about how this guy bought 2 macs a year on average?

[@nizarreghai]

Imagine being in 2005 and getting this beautiful piece of tech presented to you and still being amazed about it 15 years later and get more amazed about it because you're still amazed about it 15 years after

[@KeyboardBuster]

Thank the engineers toiling away unseen in the bowels of Apple for this engineering feat, not this smiling motherfucker up on stage.

[@JPK1337]

pretty stupid

[@chrismartin1231]

this man was something else

[@markslima1557]

The fact you can buy a new Mac mini M2 for the same price in 2023 (with student discount) is actually quite impressive. And the performance increase is just unimaginable back in 2005

[@Jerry4050]

luckily on Ebay I got mine for $530 open box

[@llothar68]

And then you realize that in 18 years they increased the disk from 40 to only 256. This x5 is lame

[@ArthropodSpidey]

​​​​​@@llothar68what's wrong? Can't afford a flash drive? That was a 40 GB hard drive. The new ones have a 256 GB SSD. The storage is more expensive to make but the price is the same. You're a moron.

[@llothar68]

@@ArthropodSpidey An Apple Fanboy calling others a moron. OMG the irony.

[@roundduckkira]

@@llothar68it is an SSD tho, but yeah it needs more storage badly, at least a thunderbolt ssd adapter for $70 is all you need to use it with m.2 SSDs

[@DrAnimePhD]

Fast forward 15 years later, and the Mac Mini has made a triumphant return. Not only is it cheap and affordable again, but it’s now a beast

[@Antphoneigh]

What a cute company Apple was back in the 2000s. So much love and enthusiasm back in the day.

[@rdvgrd6]

that was my first personal computer when I was a teenager and I loved this thing. all my friends couldn't believe this was a computer because of its size. I could also play some team fortress 2 with graphics turned down. lots of fun!

[@Buncry11]

ur kidding..actual tf2?

[@rdvgrd6]

@@Buncry11 no kidding it was running alright!

[@JPK1337]

team fortress two launched for macos over 5 years after the original mac mini.. i call bs

[@rdvgrd6]

@@JPK1337 I had my first Mac mini in 2007 and yeah team fortress launched on MacOS in 2010. What’s your problem?

[@JPK1337]

@@rdvgrd6 my problem is, by the time tf2 launched for Mac OS, the original Mac mini was not only way too slow to even play the game, it was PowerPC based and not Intel x86 based, meaning it couldn't even launch this game. like trying to run cyberpunk on arm. doesn't work.

[@warrenmcclure7819]

Wow this is amazing. I just got a Mac mini today, its the one with the 1.42 GHz processor, 80GB HDD. Its such a neat little machine

[@aashishpaudel7867]

Who is watching this after release of 2018 mac mini

[@robch.2901]

Me

[@iancoleman2070]

me

[@hakelberg89]

я

[@Mateo-qh8zt]

me

[@Poire33]

Me

[@arnarorsson7843]

It's like someone sat on the G4 cube :D

[@bernardschmitt6389]

first reply in 8 years

[@ChristopherTEKX]

I can watch this over and over and over again

[@maladjustedtv]

Watching from my Android phone, on the toilet 2018

[@MattExzy]

Technology marches forward lol

[@realcartoongirl]

same but 2020

[@RWL2012]

@@realcartoongirl same but also 2020 :P I actually have one of these but haven't hooked it up yet. I've turned on my 2006 MacBook Pro Core Duo, however.

[@RoyMaya]

This was my first Mac I purchased. I ran out and bought it as soon as it came out. And I still have it. Good memories,

[@SDX71]

Steve Jobs could sell an atheist a bible

[@saumyapathak5865]

If he would have read it ,he would have! Remember STEVE'S REALITY DISTORTION FIELD???

[@neoteny7]

Hasn't he already?

[@SjaAnat]

Is not to hard, I’m atheist and I buy a bible. As an atheist you need resources

[@yt-sh]

@@SjaAnat its good to argue with reason and facts than just feelings..

[@danielsysila4216]

Sand to Sahara

[@ngongaka]

Steve - we miss you :-/

[@bernardschmitt6389]

first reply in 6 years

[@jyoschiboi3166]

Second reply in 6 years

[@ankerhr]

Third reply in 6 years

[@bernardschmitt6389]

@@jyoschiboi3166 first reply to a reply in 6 years

[@virgule888]

I have one of those. I am sure you will enjoy every piece of it. I got one as soon as I realized the Mini consume a maximum of 35 Watts of power, compared to 180+ for a basic tower, run silently and does not eat up all my desk's space. To me, this thing is an insanely great piece ^_^

[@maxcaz2069]

how are you?

[@f_baran]

Greetings from 2023

[@Beradraws]

Greetings from 2024! I found this model now and i‘ll try to get it to work

[@michaeleverson9465]

This was the first new computer I ever saved up and bought. First Mac. Loved that thing.

[@grievousgalaxylander1713]

Steve: Look! A box with a handle! Crowd: AHHHHH 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

[@window__licker]

Back in the day where product reveals were straight to the point. No tech talk or any of that crap, just like here you go; this is what it looks like!

[@jimmyadaro]

It’s not “2x better”, it’s NEW.

[@RG2k07]

The 2005 G4 Mac mini was the first new computer that I bought with my own money! I promptly bought a 5th gen iPod video after that! I still have it in a closet somewhere in my house! I had the 1.42ghz version with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. I was 19 at the time. Brings back good memories!

[@SandsOfArrakis]

My first Mac and it still works to this day :) Went for the 1,42 GHz model and upgraded the RAM to 1 gb. Lovely little computer :) Also have it's 2014 brother :)

[@ani2595]

We need a new Mac Mini

[@ilpatongi]

Anirudh Upadhyayula I think they’re gonna drop it honestly

[@HimanshuGhadigaonkar]

launched today..

[@ilpatongi]

Himanshu Ghadigaonkar Yep. Saw that

[@jaidanielparker]

Out, but it's overpriced. The original Mac Mini was affordable enough to lure switchers in, starting price for the new one is too high to achieve this.

[@enda0man]

Just got one

[@jamesjbeggs9057]

I like all of the macs but the Mac mini just stands out from the crowd.

[@andrewhernandez3330]

Crazy that now the M2 Mac Mini is back to that $599 price tag! I have the M1 Mac Mini and even that computer is still amazing fast and powerful!

[@David_Addison]

Back when people were posting cat videos and ‘fails’, JoshuaG posted this. Respect!

[@Psychiatry.321]

The Mac mini was introduced in January 2005, using PowerPC G4 processors. The second generation Mac mini, introduced in February 2006, carried over the design of the PowerPC version, but used Intel Core processors and other upgraded components, and made wireless connections such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi standard. So this video was uploaded a year after its original release date

[@FlintG]

Watching on my mac mini from 2012 :)

[@bernardschmitt6389]

watching on thank god it not a mac

[@kestirix4602]

@@bernardschmitt6389 watching on fridge.

[@falcon759]

We had an Apple IIGS growing up, but my parents bought a Gateway PC in 1997 to replace it. It was the G3 iMacs in my university's science labs running OSX that inspired me to start using a Mac again. So off to eBay I went and purchased a used G4 Mac Mini. Been using Macs exclusively (except at work) ever since!

[@shenzhen8302]

I’m watching this video with mac mini later 2012, recently I have upgaraded RAM to 16 GB 512 ssd, the speed is stanning. the only regret is the graphic card is only supporting 1080p not capbable with 4k.

[@johnmartinez12347]

If you switch from Safari you unlock the other resolutions. It's both Google having a monopoly and wanting you to switch to chrome and Apple having a good VP9 codec. The GPU is also a big factor as most Mac:s have iGPU:s.

[@inkysanimations3709]

you cant even display 4k with that mac mini, like the highest resolution output is 1600

[@sapipa177]

wow this brings back memories, I bought the mac mini 2 days after it was available. It was my first mac, since then (2 years ago) I've bought 4 mac laptops. The Mini is still used as my HD media center with a 2TB Drive full of media. I'm saving up for a MacPro now

[@window__licker]

aww man hope you can afford that pro soon!

[@RowanGontier]

Steve felt this was a real cheapie. Never seen him so cynical in a product launch. Still captivating,

[@chrisnemat]

I don’t see it as cynical tbh

[@JackPonissi]

In truth it was a great machine for what it was. I bought one a few months later to use as a server, it performed admirably and still works today.

[@RowanGontier]

@@JackPonissi me too. I preferred my Dell inspiron though on Ubuntu.

[@NineteenEightyFive]

same! i'm guessing what bothered him was the idea of people hooking up random displays/keyboard/mouse to it so it wasn't the typical apple streamlined look. they made the right decision releasing it tho. i'm sure they gained a lot more mac users as a result. not to mention people using it as a headless unit too.

[@iot1452]

@@NineteenEightyFive absolutely… designers like me need windows for CAD stuff and Mac for other things.. Mac mini works best for such use cases.

[@BobLovesKaren]

The RAM sizes always shock me with these old videos. Loved my MacMini. 👍🏼🍎

[@fernandomeliani]

I’m surprised that such a nice product was presented in under 5 minutes. Mac mini is definitely one of the best choices to this day.

[@olli2591]

Yup, Jobs undersold this in the Keynote because he obviously didn't like it.

[@flip1sba]

I had a I-Mac and then a G4 back in the 2000s. Then switched to Mac Mini instead of an I-Mac as I have a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Plus my cintiq. It has been in service with me for years and continues to do so.

[@Kubblex]

If this is the mac mini, does this mean it's going to go out of style in a couple of years and be replaced by something smaller? The Mac Nano might be a pretty cool computer :)

[@IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou]

Guess not.

[@g01d3nfreddyYT]

Matt i’m sorry, replacing plastic with aluminum, removing the optical drive, changing ports, thickness, speed/powera and size all the time? doesn’t seem like it hasn’t changed.

[@hiteshdhawan1]

The fact that he was able to sell these is because they were actually great projects.

[@aliffubuntu]

Among al the Macs they sell, this is my favourite among the bunch.

[@nfugitt89]

You could always tell when Steve was disinterested or disliked a product. The Mac mini to him was not what he wanted in a consumer product, with all of its wires and *gasp* separate monitor. But they had to hit this price point as more people were converting to Mac via the iPod gateway.

[@Max2kFR]

The Mac Mini was great at this moment

[@JamieLikesGames]

Steve Jobs: I had corn flakes this morning Audience: hAhAhaHahHa *cheers*

[@darthmather]

My fav Apple product along with my beloved iPod

[@muixgohanx3579]

Steve Jobs: gets „👏🏻“ Tim Cook: gets „boooooh“ 😂

[@drzeissler]

Great Product!

[@lrodzen]

256MB, I remember those days... 15 years later and people are putting 128GB of RAM into a computer. Crazy how things change.

[@saskiavanhoutert3190]

Like to do sincerely greetings to STEVE,( I hope he is still a part of all) and Tim and others from APPLE

[@Superstrike_11]

Steve passed in 2011, and his mindset passed within Apple a long time ago :/

[@zyhroman]

Only Steve Jobs could do this perfect show.

[@deltarayz5045]

now i want a mac mini 😸💕 thanks to this video

[@ZakWolf]

I use a 2012 quad-core Core i7 Mac Mini, and while it has no optical drive (I use an LG external USB Blu-Ray burner with it), it's an amazing little desktop, especially since it's got the RAM upgraded to 16 GB and I also replaced the spinning hard drive with a 960 GB solid state drive. And now we have the 2018 Mac Minis. They're not that cheap anymore, but they are REALLY beefed up! (And they even have user-replaceable RAM again.)

[@secretlabs1234]

I have the mac mini 2010 model. Getting it tomorrow!

[@iAPX432]

Made me switch, the basic Mac mini (upgraded over time to 1GB/160GB), from my very powerful desktop PC 3GB/2x200GB/Radeon 9500 (hacked as 9700 Pro ;) ), just because processing power is one thing, usability and pleasure another one. Kudos!

[@bagintheback]

I got one of those Intel Mac Mini and I really push this thing with only 2GB of RAM. I run Windows 7 and Snow Leopard at the same time and do tons of video rendering. These tiny things ARE AMAZING!

[@puwazatza]

mac mini actually revolutionized installation art in galleries. They used to put a laptop, desktop pc, or DVD players along with a power strip and lots of wires...just to play a video clip or slideshows but one mac mini could replace all kinds of device mess.

[@6r4ff3r]

The good old days! I hope they launch the Mini this year, with Haswell SoC.

[@BlueWolfZero]

RIP Steve Jobs. He was one of the greatest and it’s sad that a little over 10 years ago, he had cancer and died. We’ll all miss him for selling his great Apple products.

[@affandyyy]

Steve, we miss you everyday :')

[@alanthomaswilliamson]

I miss him so much x 😍

[@thejpkotor]

Funny to think now, but this model at $500 was upgradable (RAM, hd, optic drive), had a graphics card (ATI if memory serves). The current model is all soldiered together, starts at $800, and has only integrated graphics.

[@shnunk1]

Loving my Mac Mini :) Have no plan to replace the 2010 Mini for a while!

[@gck86]

love the old video the first mac mini.

[@arro5393]

the extras r what make macs great

[@XxmatixX6videosdiariosdenadav]

I still have my powerpc g4 1gig ram 80gig HDD Mac mini it's a relic really

[@austinbblake]

I feel like a lot of the laughter here was just because this was all so Apple and Steve was just effortlessly doing this casual new product launch that everybody wanted

[@pd3331]

That is the best way to put it.

[@RWL2012]

what is the best way to put what...?

[@TuxedoPanther]

Amazing 😀👍

[@enricorpg]

Watching this from my M1 Mac mini

[@markbrad123]

Finding a video adapter for the Apple Mini DVI is hard for these in 2019. Have to go shopping in China.

[@saskiavanhoutert6081]

I still like the programms of Steve Jobs to work with, I like to work with all kind of computers, but cherish his programms.

[@Bartekdex]

Please come back, Steve!

[@Jeffyg3]

I wish these had an HDMI port for both easy video and audio connections to my TV...would have made a great media center system...this is the main reason I got a small Dell Hybrid instead (basically it's Dell's Mac Mini), even though the video card is weaker, it is more than enough for playing 1080p movies. I hope Apple adds HDMI connections in their next model of the Mac Mini, I would get it to replace the Dell Hybrid.

[@MattsKickz89]

keynotes will never be the same

[@bobeialexandru6011]

watching this from my 2018 mac mini

[@ibrahimheroglu]

Watching this on my Mac mini

[@rdvgrd6]

My first Mac. In 2007

[@yyz416bbq]

Probably one of the few products of theirs I approve of

[@Antphoneigh]

2005 was an awesome year for the Mac.

[@FifoF]

I have a Mac mini late 2012, i7 CPU.

[@MrSerotoninman]

Fifo F. How is it holding up

[@Fascistbeast]

I have one It’s so retro and cool 😎

[@falcon759]

The box got louder cheers than anything else, LOL! 4:38

[@Zereniti77]

@Rifalltoo Mac mini was introduced in January 2005. Apple did have a small form-factor computer befofe the mini, the Powermac G4 Cube, but it was considerably more expensive.

[@ryanvacation7319]

Cook should have kept the entry level price point of the Mini at 499.

[@cherubimX]

I want a Mac mini.

[@RWL2012]

Get one then. I'm guessing you have one by now :P

[@askjeevescosby2928]

How he got up on stage selling these power pc machines knowing they would be unsupported in 2 years makes him a monster.

[@TwanJaarsveld1]

watching this in 2020 and i'm like hell yeah where can i pick one up, would love a 500 dollar Mac

[@RWL2012]

Mine was free (in 2019)

[@EEVOL]

Steve Jobs is the only guy in the industry that can make you feel so happy about the packaging.

[@shempone]

Aahhhhhh. My first Mac ever. Still have it. Still works. Still love it. The pc I had before it has shit it self.

[@bisonawesome4448]

shempone this makes me laugh even now 😂

[@ryanexx5250]

I keep getting ads for the US space force on Apple videos for some reason

[@TopGearrules]

My first ever mac in 2005!!!!

[@sebastianolantieri23]

0:06 "I wished I had a nickel for everytime someone asked me that" dead 😂

[@harrisbinkhurram]

Still works without crashing, bring forward one PC that does that.

[@TAINCER_]

Depends on the OS you're running. Most crashes even back then were Software related

[@encryptededdy]

@quest8 They now have a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M so, yes

[@joselopez4]

Great! The new Intel Core Duo will be my mext machine! It's fabulous! Apple design, Mac stability, OSX all-other-things

[@micro2197]

José López hey dude. It’s been 13 years are you still alive

[@PIZZA_KITTY]

Hello from future🤣

[@RWL2012]

Core Duo iMac or Core Duo MacBook Pro...? I guess we'll never know...

[@joselopez4]

@@PIZZA_KITTY Hi January 2020! I guess you don't know what's coming with covid-19. It's gonna be crazy. Go get yourself some face masks and hand sanitizer. Don't ask, just go!

[@joselopez4]

@@micro2197 hi bby i am

[@DL_Burga]

17 year old video that still shows mad presentations

[@edward_lee]

Just bought the new 2012 Mac Mini.. Boot camped Windows 7 on it, and it has been a great HTPC.. it has no bluray, but I can get an external one anyways for under $100..