Mac mini G4 with a Built-in iPod Dock
Plain also has a super unique Mac mini G4 that sports an iPod dock. The is Mac mini model was supposedly developed alongside an iPod, possibly the iPod nano, and the two products were supposed to debut together. As the story goes, the iPod lagged in development. Apple staggered the two launches and released the Mac mini sans the iPod dock. When the Mac mini was released in 2005, Apple hacker Leo Bodnar noticed an unpopulated connector on the motherboard that he hypothesized was an iPod dock connector.
“Connector has a full Firewire bus and extra control signals on it,” writes Bodnar. “What could it be? Integrated iPod dock at the top of Mac mini case? Interface to some other external device? Missing internal module? Extra row of external connectors on the back? And most of all, has it been abandoned at the last minute or still being developed? Or is it waiting for its device to become ready?”