Some may call this sacrilege, but I think it’s a pretty smart move, with the release today of the Mac mini via apple.com:

Mac mini houses a 1.25 or 1.42GHz G4 processor, 40 or 80GB hard drive, a slot-loading CD-R/DVD-ROM optical drive, 256MB DDR SDRAM and ATI Radeon 9200 graphics chip with 32MB dedicated DDR SDRAM all whisper-quiet.

I’m guessing the 40GB HD version is the $499 USD machine. Let the price wars begin!