Praise God! I thought it was just mine!

Sweet, that was getting old really fast. 

I just took delivery of mine today. Heading out the office door to get home and set it up. I guess I'll do updates first!

It appears to have been an issue with the firmware/drivers for Ivy Bridge. Some Intel mainboards for "PCs" have the same issue. Intel said a driver/firmware update would resolve this. Glad it's out now, I've got an 2012 mini, with 2 Apple Cinema Displays, and it was driving me nuts, the HDMI output changes to "snow/static" for about 2 seconds, then back to the image. It was doing it every 2 hours or so. Annoying when you're watching a movie.
 

So far so good!  This was the only issue I had with my Mini otherwise this this is awesome little machine.  I take back what I said about this being a "down-grade revision" because of the discrete graphics issue.  I ordered mine with the Fusion drive and added 16GB of RAM myself.  Granted I'm not in to gaming, but this thing is truly a screamer for what I do.  I'm waiting to see what's going to happen with Retina and iMac's before I spend that kind of money, for now this Mini will easily handle everything I can throw at it...

I have had the new macmini for a week. Two movies turned to snow screen. Working in the dark with Photoshop I thought I had hit a new screen degauss key command. I sure hope this upgrade fixes these events.

Yeah I was getting the snow screen too, while working on Illustrator.  So far no more flickering, the firmware worked. 

Quote:

Originally Posted by AppleInsider 

Mac mini EFI Firmware Update 1.7 is a 4.53-megabyte download now available from Apple. It's compatible with the late 2012, Ivy Bridge powered Mac mini models released by Apple this fall.

I guess that means it won't do anything for the HDMI output on my 2011 Mini cutting out for a few seconds every few minutes.