Thanks to loyal readers of 9to5mac.com who apparently are experts at PCB design, PCB expert Dave has brought it to the attention of 9to5 that the world may very well be drooling over phony photos.

Dave has gone through all the trouble to provide fancy evidence photos with little circles around fragments and macroblocks.

According to Dave, the most substantial piece of evidence that would even make CSI Miami's Horatio Caine shut his whiney mouth is how the DisplayPort and Mini DVi aren't properly lined up with where the motherboard would be (also meaning that Dave has x-ray vision so strong, he can view 2D images, reconstruct the exact object he is viewing in to a 3-Dimensional space, then look through its shell to see the exact location of the motherboard... Dave should probably be watching his back since I hear Nathan Petrelli is rounding up people with super human abilities). Dave thinks that this whole shift in the placement of the ports would weaken the Mac Mini's structural integrity, something Apple wouldn't dare to manufacture and sale, and thus, it is a fake!

9to5 also mentioned that the photo was taken on "IKEA faux wood vinyl laminate [flooring]," but we know IKEA flooring, and sirs and/or mad'ams, that is no IKEA flooring... it's more Home Depot-ish.