And, for the mini, you can buy, for not too much money, third-party external drives with footprints identical to the mini (fit underneath) that have both USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 hubs. --Steve At 11:08 PM -0500 11/4/05, Daniel Brieck Jr. wrote: >The Cube has no fans so it has to have open vents and be positioned standing upright. The Mac mini can be set on its side.