BusinessWeek’s Stephen Wildstrom is the latest to sing the praises of Apple’s new Mac mini. “The new Mac Mini, starting at an impressively low US$499, brings Apple into the consumer mainstream. As you would expect for a product from Steven Jobs’s Apple, it is utterly unlike anything else on the market,” writes Wildstrom. “Lovely as the Mini is, software is the more compelling reason to buy it. Mac OS X offers the best combination of elegance and stability of any operating system. And Apple bundles some very good software, including the iPhoto picture-management program, iMovie video editing, and GarageBand music-creation software.”