You can't look at a market as a 2 week window which corresponds to a new product release. Your results are going to be greatly skewed.

The Mac mini is cheap and has surprisingly good performance. It is the absolutely perfect gateway into Apple's next generation of computing. Someone at Apple should get a merit badge for including this in their initial launch because it was genius.

That there is a big initial spike in demand is completely unsurprising unless you were asleep at a wheel. Much much more interesting is going to be what these numbers look like after Apple burns through initial pent up demand. Won't see that for 6+ months.