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.
macATTY :
I am in the same boat – I want one as a more advanced AppleTV that I can check email, web surf, and use as an entertainment server. My primary concern was that I was waiting on Core 2 Duo for playing the HD 1080i content.
I have posted the Apple tech specs at the bottom but basically, it will support HD output via DVI which is how I will connect it and it has digital and analog out for audio over a minijack which isn’t going to give a 5.1 or 7.1 audio experience but that should be okay for my purposes.
The question becomes – is Apple planning to take the AppleTV to the next level by combining the Web/Email abilities of the mini with a Blue-Ray drive…and will this be in 2007/08/09?
VIDEO:
# 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
AUDIO:
Combined optical digital audio output/headphone out (minijack)
Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory
BLOODY PITIFUL !!!!!!
For once there’s a new model that makes mine not obsolete!
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I’ve upgraded to the 1,83 GHz processor a few months ago and exchanged the HDU for a bigger 160 GB version.
The combination miglia-mini-ADC 23 inch is a better solution for me than an appletv
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The build-to-order prices of +$75 for 120 GB, and +$150 for the 120 GB and 160 GB upgrades (from 80GB) are ridiculously high:-( You can buy a 120 GB hard drive outright for about $75, and a 160 GB for less than $100.
These upgrade prices should be the difference between the cost of the 120 or 160 and the 80 it replaces.
One simple thing Apple should add to all new Macs, especially the cheaper, consumer Macs:
iWork
One more thing to wean the masses from MS. Once a person uses iWork, they will never willingly go back to MS Office and they will gladly pay the $79 for each new upgrade.
You get a 30 day free trial.
Anyway, the more important thing.
Make note of the glass screen, iPhone has glass screen.
Still not getting it?
iPhone has multi-touch, so will iMac. No need for it really, but it is on the way. And no it is not necessary because the new mouse (multi-touch imput device) will be all that is needed. Although, multi-touch will be prevalent in all areas of Apple products sooner or later.
As far as hard drives, I always thought it was a mistake to use laptop drives in your cheapest desktop model. Just make the Mac mini slightly larger, use regular desktop drives then you could increase the HD capacity and lower the price.
Oh yea, HDMI would be good too.
$99 for the Family pack of iLife or iWork. Now THAT is a great deal. Didn’t it used to be $180 or something? Can you ever imagine MS offering that kind of pricing? (I mean, outside of China.)
Pro too big (physically huge gas guzzler)…
Mini too wimpy (graphics)…
Don’t want/need new monitor….
HELP Apple!!!!
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2nd the HDMI wish
Hey ping,
>>It has gigabit ethernet. Just use a cable.
>>If you can’t be bothered with a cable, you can afford an iMac.
The mini sits headless (and sans keyboard and mouse) down in the basement. No cables down there. It wirelessly serves two Apple TVs and isn’t used for anything else. An iMac just seems like overkill for a media server.
What is up with all this Mac news. Isn’t there some iPhone stuff to report!?!??!?!
Couldn’t you enable 802.11n in the 2.0GHz version of the new mini by downloading Apple’s “n” wireless update?
THE MINI LIVES!!!! Thank you Apple!!!
Hope that’s true “Islandgirl”, I’m wondering if Apple snuck in a 802.11n card & deactivated to ‘g’, like they did with the previous MacBook series? If I find out they did, I’ll spring as a dedicated vid machine. 802.11g streams standard video fine, but gets jerky on HD.
To “me”: my MacBook (Core 2 Duo) has the apparently the same audio out as the Mini, and it does DD 5.1 and DTS just fine with optical out to my cheapo Pioneer SX315. I’d never do ATV just because of it’s lame audio.
For a tech mute point (as the projector couldn’t display the difference, anyway), I can’t run 1920×1200 resolution to my Panasonic PT-AX100U (720p) projector with my MacBook, but a buddies MacBook Pro 15/2.33/2G/120/256/GLSY could. I believe the video is the same for the Mini & MacBook. Some better graphics would be nice, tho. Will try the MB on true 1080, someday soon.
What? No built in iSight camera?
That’s a deal breaker. I’m switching.
“Let the whining commence!”
Let the whining about people whining without any degree of irony commence!
Is it possible to use the new mac mini’s restore disc on the core duo mac mini?
I would like to get Tiger 10.4.10 out-of-the-restore instead of 10.4.7 when I restore my mini in the future…
Spread the word Mini fans, we have to keep this platform alive. Talk to friends and family about the living room PC and to businesses about modular computing – One tiny box that runs all OS’s and works with existing peripherals.
I have been waiting for a Core 2 update of the Mac mini to replace my suddenly failed PPC Mac mini. This is exactly what I expect and hope for. I will get one, probably in October.
I have watched some people whine about the specifications with interest. I can only conclude that most of those people do not plan on buying one no matter what the update is. They will always find something to whine about. I have never expected Apple to release a mini tower Mac as I believe Apple has no interest in this department.
Raymond from DC:
Right, why didn’t apple just choose yo make a tiny, yet infinitely expandable computer, cheap as dirt and as powerful as the gods?
Yes what IS Apple thinking!
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@Fojimo: you get the cookie.
The mini is a great headless machine. I use them for live video streaming. I don’t need a keyboard, a mouse or a monitor at the site where the live video is processed. In fact, they get in the way. All I need is firewire, ethernet, and a fast processor. I use Remote Desktop to set everything up and then let it go. It sends the processed video back to an xserve and there we go.
I’m glad Apple didn’t kill the Mac mini.
I, too, wish there were other things improved about the machine, such as video, 802.11n. But, as we’ve read previously, the C2D is a drop-in replacement in the mini — otherwise I’m not sure we would still have the mini today.
But as of now, all of Apple’s products are 64-bit.
Not a whine but just an observation:
“5400-rpm Serial ATA”
Isnt’ that a bit like hooking your lawn sprinkler up with a firehose?
The install disks are 10.4.10 and packaging is printed with iLife ’08 so this was planned for a while. Not sure how to determine the Airport “n” deal in System Profiler
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