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Unfortunately, the lack of an HDMI connection makes the Mac Mini unsuitable for your home theatre system. The new Mac mini is Apple’s first desktop to get a new M series processor, which makes sense because it’s a less expensive, flexible, and more common line-of-the-line model. It provides reasonable power in a small and competitively priced package. iWork 09, however, isn’t included, leaving the Mac Mini devoid of any competent productivity applications.Īpple's cheapest desktop computer works well as both a low-end, small-form-factor PC.
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MacOS X 10.5.6 is preinstalled, as is Apple’s creative suite, iLife 09, with access to software including GarageBand, iPhoto and iMovie. Though it is hard to substantiate this claim, the Mac Mini definitely didn't consume much power during our tests, drawing 12W in standby mode and reaching brief peaks of 49W during intensive tasks. According to Apple, it also makes the Mac Mini the world’s most energy-efficient desktop computer. Apple took it all the way to four cores and 2 TBs before sliding back to dual core and then. Mouse, keyboard, and display not included.
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Rated at 110W, the brick is significantly larger than a power adapter of the Apple Macbook Pro but is still small enough to tuck away behind a desk. Mac mini was the original switcher machine for everyone ready to dump their beige box for an aluminum round rec. The computer's small stature can be attributed in part to the use of an external power supply. The Mac Mini remains cool and quiet during use, dissipating heat through recessed vents on the underside and a vent on the back. The Mac Mini's closest competitor in size is the Dell Studio Hybrid, and with its beefier graphics the Apple comes out on top. The Mac Mini also lacks an HDMI connection, and there is currently no way to throughput audio and video over the same connection from the Mac Mini to conventional home theatre components. Unless you have the Apple LED Cinema Display, using either port will require an adapter a mini-DVI to DVI adapter is bundled, but otherwise you are looking at shelling out more cash. FireWire 400 has vanished it's replaced by a FireWire 800 port (you can attach FireWire 400 devices if you purchase an adapter).īoth of its display ports use proprietary Apple connections: mini-DVI and mini-DisplayPort. The back panel features a power connector, Gigabit Ethernet and five USB ports (up from four on the previous model).
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It still has the brushed aluminium sides, the white top with familiar logo, and a tiny white LED power indicator on the front. The Mac Mini's exterior design has gone unchanged. Optional upgrades aren’t expensive either, at $270 for a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and $180 for an extra 2GB of DDR3 RAM (for a total of 4GB of memory). The Mac Mini lacks a keyboard and mouse but it is comparatively well-priced for an Apple computer. The Mac Mini is capable of accomplishing most office productivity, Web browsing and basic creative tasks however, it did struggle to complete iTunes' gapless playback process on a large music library without freezing. Testing the 2.0GHz Mac Mini with 2GB of DDR3 RAM, we encoded an album’s worth of uncompressed WAV audio files to 192Kbps MP3 audio in 1min 33sec this is the same result as the similarly configured (but Windows-based) Dell Studio Hybrid.