In its place is a second Thunderbolt port. One notable change on the back of the Mac mini is the absence of FireWire 800. A year and a half later, the Haswell Mac mini is finally here, and with it comes a host of changes to the product line, even if the box looks mostly the same on the outside. In 2013 the first Macs based around Intel's fourth-generation Core processor (the 'Haswell' chip) began to appear, and many of us wondered when Apple would get around to refreshing the Mac mini.
