Apple today unveiled a completely redesigned Mac mini, featuring up to twice the graphics performance, a new HDMI port and a new SD card slot, all in an amazingly compact aluminum enclosure. Mac mini is the world’s most energy efficient desktop and starting at $699, is the most affordable way to enjoy Mac OS, iLife or Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server.
“The sleek, aluminum Mac mini packs great features, versatility and value into an elegant, amazingly compact design,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, in the press release. “With twice the graphics performance, HDMI support and industry-leading energy efficiency, customers are going to love the new Mac mini.”
Created with the unibody construction process pioneered by Apple, the new Mac mini features a compact aluminum enclosure just 7.7 inches square and 1.4 inches thin. A new integrated power supply eliminates the need for an external power adapter, reducing overall system volume by 20 percent and keeping cable clutter to a minimum. A removable panel underneath provides quick access for memory expansion. Mac mini is incredibly versatile, effortlessly connecting to existing peripherals such as mice, keyboards and digital displays, while the new HDMI output connects Mac mini to an HDTV and the new SD card slot enables easy transfer of photos and videos from a digital camera.
Inside its sleek, compact enclosure, the new Mac mini includes the fastest integrated graphics processor on the market today. With 48 processing cores, the NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor delivers up to twice the graphics performance of its predecessor, making Mac mini ideal for graphics intensive applications or visually rich games. Mac mini comes standard with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 320GB hard and 2GB of RAM for $699.
With twice the graphics performance, the new Mac mini is still the world’s most energy efficient desktop. The new Mac mini reduces power consumption by an incredible 25 percent to less than 10W at idle, less than half the power required by competing systems. Mac mini meets Energy Star 5.0 requirements and achieves EPEAT Gold status.** The new aluminum enclosure is highly recyclable and Mac mini uses PVC-free components and cables, contains no brominated flame retardants and features material-efficient system and packaging designs.
Mac mini comes with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the world’s most advanced operating system, and iLife, Apple’s innovative suite of applications for managing photos, making movies and creating and learning to play music. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. iLife features iPhoto, to easily organize and manage photos; iMovie® with powerful easy-to-use new features such as Precision Editor, video stabilization and advanced drag and drop; and GarageBand® which introduces a whole new way to help you learn to play piano and guitar.
Mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server fulfills all the server needs of a workgroup or small business including email, calendar, file serving, Time Machine® backup, Wiki Server, Podcast Producer and more. Mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server uses less than 11W of power at idle, a fraction of the power consumed in comparison to typical entry-level tower servers. Mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server is faster than before with a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, two 500GB hard drives now running at 7200 rpm, 4GB of RAM and supports unlimited clients for $999.
The new Mac mini is shipping today and will be available through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.
The Mac mini, for a suggested retail price of US$699, includes:
• 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB of shared L2 cache
• 2GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, expandable up to 8GB
• a slot-load 8X SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive
• 320GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm
• NVIDIA GeForce 320M integrated graphics
• AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• Gigabit Ethernet
• four USB 2.0 ports
• SD card slot
• one FireWire 800 port
• one HDMI port and one Mini DisplayPort
• HDMI to DVI video adapter
• combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack)
• combined optical digital audio output/headphone out (minijack)
Build-to-order options and accessories include up to 8GB 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, 500GB hard drive running at 5400 rpm, Apple Remote, Aperture 3, Final Cut Express 4, Logic Express, iWork (pre-installed), Apple Wireless Keyboard, Magic Mouse, Apple 24 inch LED Cinema Display and the AppleCare Protection Plan.
The Mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server, for a suggested retail price of $999, includes:
• 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB of shared L2 cache
• 4GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, expandable up to 8GB
• two 500GB Serial ATA hard drives running at 7200 rpm
• NVIDIA GeForce 320M integrated graphics
• AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• Gigabit Ethernet
• four USB 2.0 ports
• SD card slot
• one FireWire 800 port
• one HDMI port and one Mini DisplayPort
• HDMI to DVI video adapter
• combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack)
• combined optical digital audio output/headphone out (minijack)
Build-to-order options and accessories include up to 8GB 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, External SuperDrive, Apple Wireless Keyboard, Magic Mouse, Apple 24 inch LED Cinema Display and the AppleCare Protection Plan.
Find out more about Apple’s all new unibody Mac mini here.
The online store has been down all day, couldn’t order one if you wanted to.
wasn’t the mac mini declared dead 2 years ago?
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I’m thinking that little thing is pretty hot! Feeling the need to make a media center Mac again.
Umm, maybe – just maybe the store has been down to prep for this and iPhone 4 pre-orders? Just like every time Apple releases a new product ready for order.
no, everyone is using them as posh apple tv’s these days
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That’s a sweet little machine. Nice to see they made it easier to add RAM and even nicer that they added an integrated power supply.
What the hell’s up with the 5,400 rpm drive? I thought this was 2010, no?
Somewhat overpriced, would have been more tolerable if 4 megs of base memory.
Still, not a bad machine if you want something you can plug in and more or less forget about.
Server seems like a good deal…
Mac mini and apple tv seem to look alot alike,,,,,,,,,,,
And it comes in neither matte or glossy! At least it has FireWire, for all that external storage goodness.
a tad pricey
I had no problem this morning pre-ordering online. This was at 4 a.m. EDT.
Nice, server option is looking sweet!
Sweet looking, but a $100 cheaper would be sweeter!
and its £59 dearer than an iPhone 32gb @ £599.
Jesus £599 for a 32gb iPhone!
I paid £250 for my 32gb 3GS!
It’s about time they gave it an integrated power supply. It always irked me that they touted how small it was and then you got this ruddy great brick with it.
Not wild about the location of the SD card slot. Oh well. I’ll take seven.
I’m impressed. A slew of improvements make the Mini better than ever.
Finally HDMI. And the SD card slot and integrated power supply are nice additions too. Only extra I could ask for is an optional Blu-ray drive.
Can the new tv be far behind?
Apple bumped up the price of the base unit by $100! At one time, it started even lower, at $499. Bad idea, and they didn’t even bump up the RAM or or the other specs signifcantly, other than the graphics card.
Apple did do a nice job on the server, pumping the HD speeds to 7200 rpm.
Other than that, though, pretty lame.
Wow, what a surprise. Nice redesign.
Integrated power supply. YES!
@Jim… 5400 rpm? No kidding! Can we easily swap out the slow-assed hard drive for a 7200 rpm unit?
BUT, it’s STILL got the crippled integrated graphics card! WTF? Slap 8GB of RAM and a decent fast hard drive and it might almost make up for it.
So now the Mac mini is .7k. I think they may be missing the point.
How easy is it to replace the HD by yourself?
looks like they are going with a universal power plug there… looks like it came from a printer.
Just a thought here. I was told by a very reliable ….. er….. well somewhat…… er ……… pretty shady source that Macs were dead.
Apple had left the Macs behind and it was just toys from now on.
Now, just who was it that said that…???
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Just a thought,
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The Entry Price is NO more!
And for Businesses the missing Kensington Lock Hole is a real disadvantage –
for example all those Hotels that use IPTV Systems based on MacMinis are fu**ed!
or those using MacMinis for Digital Signage unless Sonnet brings out a new Cage, which can be securely mounted to the back… (some Royal Caribbean Cruise Vessels for example!)
Apple (!):
Send Apple TV into the Graveyard and put that money into lowering the Price for the MacMini, to provide a great Set-top-Box Alternative to all that Intel Atom Crapware!