New Mac Mini - NO MINI DVI TO VGA!!

Apple why on earth can I not choose the VGA adapter over the HDMI in my order? Your margins are fat enough as they are, now if I need/want this Mac Mini I gotta chuck/ebay the HDMI adapter and buy the VGA adapter to get it to work on our VGA displays.
Please offer at point of sale which adapter is required, I bet you any money there are far more VGA displays out there than HDMI's especially in the school's environment where the mac mini is the perfect product for IT admins to wedge Mac's in to the PC room.
Oh and while I'm at it. Give us front panel USB ports!

Sorry, but I for one have no idea what you're talking about. Apple doesn't even offer an HDMI adapter, so there's no way they could in any fashion be forcing you to get one. Perhaps you're referring to the mini-DVI to DVI adapter that is included? If so, then Apple's clearly including the adapter that's going to be most applicable to the majority of users (many if not most modern monitors and current televisions supporting DVI). You can submit your comments to Apple via the feedback page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macmini.html
but I would doubt that they will not start including the VGA adapter. At best they might remove the DVI adapter and just let people choose, but my guess is that they won't want to ship the Mac mini with no way at all to connect a monitor. Given the relatively low price of the VGA adapter for those who need it, I wouldn't expect any sort of change. But you can offer your suggestion.
You can submit your suggestion re. front-panel USB ports through the feedback form as well.

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