How do you rip CDs on a new version mac mini?

Use Apple's external drive.

Go to Newegg.com or any one of the various computer peripheral websites and get one. You'd be hard pressed to be able to detect any difference between them and the conv. wisdom is that that the external ones are better than the internal one.

Apple doesn't make the external drive -- some nameless employer of slave child labor in Shenzen does.

Us an external USB or Firewire Drive and free XLD software for ripping. Dont use iTunes for ripping. XLD links:

http://www.empiricalaudio.com/computer-audio/

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

"Dont use iTunes for ripping."
Many, many folks here use iTunes quite happily. If you do go that route, be certain to rip in Apple Lossless, and make sure you check the error correction box.

Audioengr is correct XLD is a much better ripper. Do not get me wrong I have heard good rips from I-tunes but in XLD they are a magnitude better