New Mac mini Delivers Performance Up to Four Times Faster
A new Mac mini was unveiled by Apple, today, with the Intel Core Duo processor. Apple claims the new Mini delivers performance up to four times faster than its predecessor and "provides even greater expansion in the same innovative and incredibly compact design." The Mac mini features the Apple Remote and Front Row so you can play your music, enjoy your photo slideshows, watch your DVDs, iMovies, music videos and television shows from across the room.
The new Mac mini offers a completely new system architecture for performance up to four times as fast as the previous Mac mini, including a 667 MHz front-side bus and 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory expandable to 2GB. With the latest high-performance connectivity options, every new Mac mini now includes:
- built-in 10/100/1000 BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet for high-speed networking
- built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11g WiFi for fast 54 Mbps wireless networking
- built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
- four USB 2.0 ports, twice as many as the previous generation.
- DVI interface and a VGA-out adapter to easily connect to a variety of displays, including many of today’s most popular flat panel televisions
- both analog and digital audio outputs to easily connect to a home stereo.
Software included on the new Mac mini includes iLife ‘06, featuring major new versions of iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, GarageBand and introducing iWeb, a new iLife application that makes it super-easy to create amazing websites with photos, blogs and Podcasts and publish them on for viewing by anyone on the Internet.
Every new Mac mini comes with the latest release of Mac OS X version 10.4 “Tiger”, including Safari™, Mail, iCal, iChat and Front Row. Mac OS X Tiger includes an innovative software translation technology called Rosetta that lets customers run most Mac OS X PowerPC applications seamlessly, providing backward compatibility for existing PowerPC software.
Pricing & Availability
Starting at just $599, the new Mac mini is shipping today and will be available through Latter-Day Mac at the Apple Store.