More modern hardware, lower price
Two years it took, now is the day: Apple brings an updated successor to the Mac Mini (2012) on the market. Revamped was doing primarily the hardware package, at the same time the US manufacturer has lowered the price at least in the basic version.
Two years it took, now is the day: Apple brings an updated successor to the Mac Mini (2012) on the market. Revamped was doing primarily the hardware package, at the same time the US manufacturer has lowered the price at least in the basic version.
PC System Apple Mac Mini
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| Apple Mac Mini |
Processors from Intel's Haswell-series
As usual, Apple offers the Mini in several variants. The cheapest costs while nearly 520 EUR, in the other there are some 720 or 1,020 EUR. The power supplies no longer a processor from Intel's Ivy Bridge, but a copy of the current Haswell family. There are several chips to choose from (Core i5, Core i7, which all have two cores have for predecessors were optional even quad-core CPUs available Further important One can not enhance its own memory instead offers Apple Models with four or eight GB RAM - and the eight gigabyte version is equipped with faster CPUs (two versions), becoming rounded more expensive hardware from storage here you can also choose between several options: Either you take a hard drive (500 GB and.. 1 TB) or a fusion drive (1TB).
More details
Further details are summarized quickly. The case is almost 20 centimeters wide as deep and about 3.5 cm high. It weighs just 1,200 grams and has no drive at all, can the PC via WiFi 802.11 ac / a / g / b / n connect wirelessly to the Internet. For users without a router a classic LAN or Ethernet interface is available, also have the wireless standard Bluetooth 4.0, two Thunderbolt ports, an HDMI output for video output to a monitor, an SDXC-compatible card reader and an audio input and a headphone jack on board , In addition there are four USB slots each of which supports the 3.0 standard and therefore allows fast data transfers. the equipment is completed finally by the operating system OS X Yosemite.
What is the bottom line? The new Mac mini is very contact joyful, also reaches the hardware for most applications. However, the absence of a quad-core option is likely some users belch sour also the RAM concept is suboptimal, at least for the consumer. All in all, arises therefore a streaky impression.
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