If you recently bought one of Apple's Mac mini desktop computers or a MacBook Pro laptop, you're likely on the prowl for add-on products. Here are two I mostly liked:

Mac mini external hard drive. A Mac mini doesn't provide massive amounts of hard-drive storage — only 60 or 80 gigabytes. So if you plan to do video editing or other media chores that tend to gobble up drive capacity, add a miniStack v2 drive from NewerTechnology (www.newertech.com/ministack).

The hard drive physically mimics the mini. Place your computer atop the drive, and you'll hardly know it's there. But it gives you between 80 and 500 gigabytes for between $129 and $439. The mini accesses data on the v2 via either a high-speed FireWire or Universal Serial Bus connection. The v2 also serves as a USB hub, adding ports for peripherals.

And though the v2 is cosmetically a mini add-on, it will work with any recent Macintosh or Windows machine. But you may experience delays in accessing data — par for the course with many external hard drives.
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