Apple’s Mac mini makes it easy and affordable to work with digital photos, movies, music, and the web. And now it all happens with the blazing speed of the Intel Core 2 Duo. Delivering unprecedented power in such a small package, the Mac mini runs up to 39% faster than previously. Coupled with the world’s most advanced operating system, Mac OS X, Mac mini runs all your modern and innovative software, speedily.
Apple’s Mac mini, the most affordable way to Mac OS X, Intel Core 2 Duo, iLife ’08, and Front Row starts at US$599.
Mac mini comes with iLife ’08, a suite of easy-to-use applications that make it easy to make amazing things. Enhance, organize, and share your photos via iPhoto. Create calendars, books, and cards. Make an epic starring your kids in iMovie. Turn your photo and movie creations into professional DVDs with iDVD. Create original music in GarageBand, even if you can’t carry a tune. Make podcasts and blogs. Then publish them online via .Mac and iWeb.2 You’ll be amazed at how quickly, easily, and beautifully you can share your digital life.
Inside its tiny 2-inch-tall, 6.5-inch-square anodized aluminum enclosure, Mac mini houses the fast Intel Core 2 Duo processor, an 80GB or 120GB hard drive, a slot-loading Combo drive or SuperDrive, as well as built-in 54-Mbps AirPort Extreme wireless networking (based on 802.11g standard).
Mac mini also gives you plenty of room to grow. Simply connect your digital devices, such as cameras, iPod, printer, camcorder, or keyboard, to the Mac mini over USB 2.0 or FireWire. Share files around your house at blazing speeds with built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet. Enjoy high-quality sound on almost any speaker system with double-duty analog/digital audio. Record digital and analog sources through audio line in, perfect for your latest podcast in GarageBand.
Apple’s new Mac mini specs include:
• 1.83GHz or 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
• 2MB or 4MB on-chip L2 cache
• 667MHz frontside bus
• 1GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300) on two SO-DIMMs; supports up to 2GB
• Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory
• DVI video output to support digital resolutions up to 1920 by 1200 pixels; supports 20-inch Apple Cinema Display and 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display; supports coherent digital displays up to 154MHz; supports noncoherent digital displays up to 135MHz
• VGA video output (using included adapter) to support analog resolutions up to 1920 by 1080 pixels
• S-video and composite video output to connect directly to a TV or projector (using Apple DVI to Video Adapter, sold separately)
• Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)
• Built-in 54-Mbps AirPort Extreme wireless networking (based on 802.11g standard)
• Built-in Bluetooth 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) up to 3 Mbps
• Built-in speaker
• Apple Remote
• Combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack)
• Combined optical digital audio output/headphone out (minijack)
• 80GB or 120GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive; optional 160GB drive
• Slot-loading Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW): reads DVDs at up to 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 16x speed, reads CDs at up to 24x speed
• Slot-loading SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW): writes DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL discs at up to 2.4x speed, writes DVD-R and DVD+R discs at up to 8x speed, writes DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs at up to 4x speed, reads DVDs at up to 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 16x speed, reads CDs at up to 24x speed
• Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger (includes Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat AV, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Xcode Developer Tools)
• iLife ’08 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand)
• Front Row
See the upgraded Mac mini here.
Let the whining commence!
It’s about friggin’ time.
And the bitching will start in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1……
It’s not free and it doesn’t spit out gold coins? WTF?
That damn Intel GMA950. Can´t they do something for it?
No bitching here. This is the unit that will replace my Yosemite G3 desktop. After Leopard is released, of course.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />
What’s amazing is that Apple’s been consistent in how they’ve handled the mini — bringing it refreshes every so often. And yet people will complain that because Apple didn’t do X or Y, then the mini sucks — never mind that they know very well what the mini is, what it isn’t, and what its updates consist of. Still, they whine on…
It’s basically what the iMac was yesterday. Nice. Mac mini server…here I come!
http://www.macminicolo.net
I just hope these product announcements silence people complaining about the deluge of iPhone news by making it obvious that up until this very day, there simply was nothing worth reporting regarding the Mac.
Ok, I’ll start off… This is *not* the upgrade to the Mini many of us were hoping for. We’ve called it the Missing Mac, the Mini II, the Mini Tower, but we all know what we’re waiting for: a headless, expandable, small form factor box. What we have here is the same basic box with a CPU upgrade. Color me disappointed.
Long live the Mac mini!
It’s not pretentious, it simply does the job. Core 2 Duo and the new iLife 08 is nice. But to get the most of this machine, you’d have to load it up with lots of RAM.
No miniPro! Guess I’ll be keeping my G4 for another several years until my year-old 23-inch monitor dies.
ack! it isn’t a machine Apple has never offered! (headless semipro mid tower)
is has no numberpad!
no isight!
it can’t run counterstrike!
what they think i will pay $600 for core 2 duo and os x and ilife? get real!
it should have an iPhone like screen on top!
….and be infinitely upgradable!
…and grant wishes!
…and improve my sex life!
Why didn’t they use the faster 802.11n Airport card? The Mac Mini still can’t serve movies and music as fast as the Apple TV can receive them.
I am getting one with Leopard as soon as Leopard is out!!
Why didn’t they use the faster 802.11n Airport card? The Mac Mini still can’t serve movies and music as fast as the Apple TV can receive them.
It has gigabit ethernet. Just use a cable.
If you can’t be bothered with a cable, you can afford an iMac.
See?
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />
I guess two out of three isn’t bad. The Core 2 Duo and 1 GB of memory were musts but considering Apple isn’t spending any money designing a new model where’s the 100 bucks price drop I was hoping for?
I have a coreduo Mac mini 1.66ghz machine that is about a year old. I’m glad they didn’t get rid of the mini, but at least they could have included 802.11n. That would have sold me on upgrading to a faster processor to convert videos for my AppleTV and a faster wireless to sync them up as well.
Still waiting.
Yo … If I wanted to connect the mac mini to my tv and use it as a media center/server for Movies, Music & Photos & connect a 1TB drive to it for all my Movies, Music & Photos… is it a better & cheaper idea to buy this thing or buy an Apple TV and hack it to work with a 1TB external drive? – thanks in advance for your comments.
I’ve been waiting for this. This will be my next computer purchase (for the kids).
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />
There seem to be fewer and fewer whines from the last of the tinkerers, but still they surface whenever new hardware is announced (ie, it sucks because I wanna be able to add the new xyz video card so it will drive this monitor my brother gave me and I wanna RAID the drive with some old SCSI drives I got at a garage sale, etc.)
I mean, don’t these guys have a clue. Are they surprised when the traffic light turns red?
Please. Apple will deliver 4 million Macs between now and December 31 and yet, nothing for you. Sorry. Is the picture getting clear at all?
This is the upgrade I was waiting for. I am going to hook this up to an HD TV. The mini will function very similarly to an Apple TV plus it will be my web server and I can surf the web from my couch. This, along with a wireless keyboard and mouse, is the perfect computer for the living room. I’m very excited about this.
Nothing wrong with the Mini – I think it fills a need – but I still want the missing Mac: minitower, two drive bays, two DVD bays, 8 GB max, choice of one: Woodcrest (4 core) or Cloverton (2 core), PCI-E graphics. As good as they are for most people, an iMac isn’t quite enough horsepower for me. In the course of a single day, I can run every Office App, Parallels, and Xcode. When I go to load up a large Civ IV map, it means practically shutting the machine down…. A bit more ram, a faster swap drive and everything would be fine. By the same token a MacPro is just too big.
Would a mini pro tower kill too many MacPro sales? I think not. Would it sell enough copies to justify the development costs? It can’t be that hard.
Apple just released a front row update version 1.3.1 via software update.