With its sleek aluminum design, a removable bottom panel for easy access to memory, and a space-saving built-in power supply, Mac mini is pretty incredible. No matter how you look at it. Mac mini features an all-new, 1.4-inch-thin aluminum enclosure. It’s called the unibody — a seamless enclosure carved from a single, solid block of aluminum. Apple says thats 20 percent less system volume than before, mostly because the power brick is gone.
But look at the footprint. The old mini was 6.5 inches square and 2 inches tall, this one is 7.7 inches square, so it spreads wider on your desk. Not so mini anymore !!
Inside its a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of DDR3 you can take to 8GB through that bottom panel, a 320GB drive and NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics with 48 processing cores, up to twice the graphics of the last mini says Apple. The two new ports are what got us excited, HDMI (an HDMI to DVI adapter is in the box) and an SD card slot. Theres four USB 2.0 ports now where the old one had five.
Price is $699, up from $599, and the Snow Leopard Server version with a 2.66GHz chip, 4GB and two 500GB drives is $999. Both are shipping now. Apple is also calling the $699 one the world’s most energy efficient desktop at under 10W idle, 25 percent less power than before. More soon, stay tuned.
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