Mac-mini june 2010 mini-dislay port do audio as well?

Does the mini-display port on the new mac mini provide audio as well? It does have an hdmi port so not as big a deal any more but I'm still curious as this can't be determined from the techspecs on the apple store page.

Yet again, David is right and I am wrong.
In my defense let me explain.
I have a new mac mini and an iMac i7. They are connected via mini-display to mini-display port adapter. Both have keyboards and mice.
When I'm on the iMac and cmd-f2 it switches to the mac mini.. the iMac keyboard is dead to the iMac system at this point. CMD-q or any input from the keyboard has no effect on the iMac system... Now I must switch to the other keyboard/mouse for the mini. This controls everything EXCEPT volume for the output of mini. This is by default set to max and can't be altered.
One must switch back to the iMac keyboard to up the volume.... mini display to mini display does support audio perfectly. (if you know which keyboard to un-mute the volume )
Again, sorry David for the mis-information.

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