On the following webpage, another Mac mini has received a new heart named Merom (plenty of captures and photos.
As we already mentioned it, one will need a firmware update to see the CPU recognize as a Core 2 Duo; but chance are quite low, Apple will probably never make such release before it starts using the same CPU in Mac mini revision. At the opposite, apple might introduce some tricks in future firmware update to prevent users to perform CPU upgrade, but we hope that Apple is not seriously considering this option as it might generate the biggest anti-Apple campaign.
But one should not forget that it happened already in the past, when G3 B&W which have had their CPU exchanged for a G4 could not boot anymore after a simple firmware update provided by Cupertino.
