The one drawback to this hack is that we removed the optical drive. Fortunately, Apple's provided an easy solution, thanks to the MacBook Air.

You can use Remote Disc to share the optical drive of a nearby Mac or PC.

Remote Disc is not activated on the mini, but fortunately turning it on is simple. Just type the following two commands in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool true

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser ODSSupported -bool true

Restart, and you're all set.