New Mac Mini's Announced

[chiefnobum]

Wow, big news day for Apple. The new Mac Mini's were announced. As expected, they move to the new Macbook's setup, but they do have firewire 800.

Courtesy of Tom's Hardware - http://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple- ... ,7163.html

Faster. Greener. Still mini.
That’s what the tagline reads in Apple’s newly launched Mac mini webpage. Having been on hiatus, the new Mac mini has been a long time coming.

At an entry price of $599, the Mac mini represents the cheapest way to buy into Apple culture, and now it’s also the most energy efficient method as well. Apple claims that the new Mac mini is “the world’s most energy efficient desktop,” drawing less than 13 watts of power when idle. It should be good on cramped desks as well, measuring 6.5 by 6.5 by 2-inches.

Just like the aluminum unibody MacBooks that were unveiled in October 2008, the new Mac mini utilizes an Intel CPU paired with an Nvidia chipset. Both variants of the new Mac mini will come with a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo with 3 MB shared L2 cache, which sits on an Nvidia GeForce 9400M. Also sharing with the MacBooks is a slot-load 8x SuperDrive dual-layer burner, Mini DisplayPort and mini-DVI for video output (adapters sold separately, obviously), built-in AirPort Extreme wireless N, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, gigabit Ethernet. Like in the early leaked images, the Mac mini features a whooping five USB ports – besting the iMac and matching the Mac Pro.

The $599 Mac mini will buy you all of the above with 1 GB DD3, 120 GB 5400 RPM hard drive. Moving to a $799 Mac mini will bump the RAM to 2 GB DDR and a 320 GB 5400 RPM hard drive.

Additional build-to-order options and accessories for the Mac mini include: a 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, up to 4 GB DDR3 RAM, and 80 GB, 250 GB or 320 GB 5400 hard drives.

The new Mac mini are now shipping and available through the Apple Store and Apple Authorized Resellers.

[guitarguy12387]

Very nice. I heard apple also bumped the specs on a bunch of models today as well! I'm holding out for an i7 and usb 3.0 haha

[chiefnobum]

Yeah, they updated the Mac Mini, iMac, and Mac Pro today. iMac's still don't have quad core, but they did get the new FSB and DDR3 RAM. There's also a few different video card options for them and they took a sizeable price drop.