Apple announces 'twice as powerful' HD Ready Mac mini

Apple launches a new Mac mini
Apple launches a new Mac mini

Apple has made a surprise change to its computer line-up, announcing a completely re-designed Mac mini.

Sporting a HDMI port, aluminium chassis and SD card slot, the Mac mini measures just 7.7-inches square and 1.4-inches thin and it also does away with an external power adaptor, so the whole thing is sleeker than ever before.

mac mini

Exact features of each are below:

Mac mini

  • 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 & 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)

The Mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server

  • 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 & 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)

The new Mac mini is available from today and costs £649 or £929 with the Snow Leopard package.

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