Mac mini meant to house built-in iPod Dock?

So the same dude who overclocked his
Mac mini continued to tinker, and has uncovered an unused FireWire bus in the Ultra ATA-100 riser card that connects the mini's optical drive to the motherboard. What's up with this vestigial FireWire connector? Leo thinks the riser was designed to feed an iPod Dock connector built in to the top cover of the mini. Whether the feature was originally built in and then dropped, or whether this foretells the advent of an iPod Dock-enabled Mac mini (or whether this is all pure shinola, for that matter), is unknown. Although,
considering that nary a single iPod now ships with a Dock as a standard accessory, it wouldn't surprise us to see the next Mac mini revision sporting just such a convenience. And wouldn't it make a great holster for a video iPod?

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