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UPDATE: Unfortunately, it looks like Apple has cancelled this promo

Now is the time to get a Mac mini and do your own car install!

Apple recently announced that you can try a Mac mini for 30 days. If you don’t love it, you can always send it back! Hurry – the test drive ends on October 31, 2005.

What will you get?
Your Mac mini includes more than a dozen full-featured applications for emailing, instant messaging, browsing and more. …

The September 2005 issue of MacWorld magazine includes a “Hot Mods” article on Mac mini auto installs and also mentions MacVroom.com. The article highlights a couple of the excellent Mac’d Rides that we have reported on here – Mike Feidler’s Mac mini Mini Cooper and Matt Turner’s VW GTI. If you subscribe to MacWorld magazine or are near a newsstand, check out the article. It is titled “Hot Mods” and is located in the “Mobile Mac” section on page …

Today Apple introduced updated Mac minis. Each Mac mini now comes with 512MB of RAM standard. Wireless Bluetooth and AirPort Extreme are now included on the two 1.42GHz models and the top model now includes a SuperDrive.

There are now three models:

• Base Model: 1.25GHz G4 CPU, 512MB RAM, 40GB Hard Drive, and Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) drive ($499)
• Faster Wireless Model: 1.42GHz G4 CPU, 512MB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) drive, both Bluetooth and AirPort Extreme networking ($599)
• Faster

Steve wanted to share his great Nissan 350Z install with our MacVroom readers. So far, he’s been pleased with his setup because the resulting sound is perfect – with no static in the audio at all. The DVD is completely stable while driving, but like everyone here, he is still happily tweaking away.

He runs a Pioneer-P5000MP head unit with an auxiliary input that can also be named. The best thing is that it is pretty simple to do and …

Have you spent countless hours installing a Mac in your vehicle? Would you like to get some exposure and have it featured on MacVroom.com? If so, we would like to hear more about it. The “Mac’d Rides” section is one of the most popular areas on our site. Get your install in front of hundreds of interested viewers today!

Shoot us an email with details about your project via this link. Please include…

• Year, make and model