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Mac mini Core Duo - All tiny Macs now have Core Duo chips
Mac mini - The Secret To Silence?
Mac mini Core Duo - All tiny Macs now have Core Duo chips
Macworld's Jason Snell reports:
Lost amid the flurry of Apple's late-summer product announcements was a small but significant upgrade to the Mac mini line: in addition to dropping the low-end Mac mini Core Solo 1.5GHz and lowering the price of the Mac mini Core Duo 1.66GHz model to $599, Apple released a new top-of-the-line $799 Mac mini powered by a 1.83GHz Core Duo processor. It's a solid, if unexciting, upgrade to Apple's tiny desktop Mac.
With the exception of the processor, the new high-end Mac mini is essentially identical to the first round of Mac minis with Intel processors, released earlier this year. Like those models, it comes with an Apple Remote, a built-in infrared receiver for the remote, and Apple's Front Row media-playback software. Like all Mac mini models, it doesn't come with a keyboard, mouse, or display.
For the full review visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/2006/09/reviews/minis2006/index.php
Mac mini - The Secret To Silence?
Mark Mischke's Weblog says:
A few months ago I talked about tricking out a Mac mini and creating a silent, high-performance desktop machine with a tiny form factor. I'd recently built a reasonably quiet server from the parts I had lying around from an earlier project and those from an existing Pentium 4 machine. The server lives in the basement and provides us with file sharing, HTTP, FTP, SQL and VPN services. It's got drive redundancy and is quite secure (protected by tight system security, good firewalling and Labrador Retriever).
Back to the mini. I broke down and bought one. Just the basic model w/a 1.66 GHz Core Duo CPU, 512 MB RAM and a 60 GB 5400 RPM hard drive. Since my plan had always involved chucking the CPU, memory and drive, it didn't seem to make much sense to consider any factory enhancements (Apple's prices and options leave something to be desired). I've been having a blast with it and I'm realizing just how much I missed having a Mac. Perhaps most importantly, my mini makes no detectable noise (it's approximately 18" from my left ear) and it's not warm to the touch.....
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http://mmischke.blogs.com/myblog/2006/09/mac_mini_the_se.html
Charles W. Moore
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