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Wednesday 8th August 2007
Mac mini completes Apple's Core 2 Duo upgrade 8:23AM, Wednesday 8th August 2007
Apple has given the Mac mini a new lease of life. Having struggled on with the ageing Core Duo processor for more than 12 months, the compact, "headless" Mac has been refitted with Core 2 Duo chips bringing it into line with the rest of the Mac range.

The Mac mini ships without a display, keyboard or mouse. What you do get is a the Core 2 Duo chip running at 1.8GHz or 2GHz, with either an 80GB or 120GB hard drive and 1GB of memory. Both the storage capacity and memory can be increased to 160GB and 2GB respectively.

Both models include an Intel GMA 950 graphics
 
 
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processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM that is shared with main memory. A monitor is connected via the DVI output port with support for VGA, S-video, and composite video connections via the included adapter. The Mac minis provide digital resolution (DVI) up to 1920x1200 and analogue (VGA) up to 2048x1536.

Four USB 2.0 and one FireWire 400 port are included as is 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet, AirPort Extreme (802.11b/g) Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR.

Apple's new iLife '08 software suite is included, alongside the usual array of OS X 10.4 applications including the Mail email client and Safari browser and Front Row media software with remote control.

Mac mini costs £399 for the 1.83GHz model and £499 for 2.0GHz. For more information go to apple.com/uk/macmini.
Simon Aughton

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