That'll pit it against offerings from VIA and others, while offering considerably more oomph in a similar form factor -- though a mini-server slaying Core i5 option originally proposed by Intel was dropped.
According to Google, thousands of enterprise customers have already purchased and deployed the Google Mini, a small server that companies, governments and schools can use to search through their own systems.
The Mac mini also fell short of being a media server that can be a video recorder as well as a store for all the digital music, movies and images people accumulate, said Mr Fogg.