The M1 chip plays decidedly to the strengths that the Mac Mini had already laid as a foundation. Demure and inconspicuous, it’s supposed to blend unobtrusively into the scenery, to serve as a quiet workhorse instead of an ostentatious status symbol. The slim device-just 7.7 inches square, under 1.5 inches tall, and weighing only 2.6 pounds-is designed to be quite the opposite of most Apple hardware. The formula hasn’t ever fundamentally changed. Perhaps the least anticipated among them is this, the fifth generation of Apple’s svelte, low-cost Mac Mini.įor those not in the know, the Mac Mini dates back to 2005 and was most recently updated in 2018. Apple formally announced the new M1 CPU for its Mac computers less than a month ago, and it’s already shipping in a trio of products. And from every angle I’ve been able to examine it, the company is doing a bang-up job with its own silicon strategy so far. On the other hand, it has a processor with half the number of cores, no longer supports Firewire, has RAM that can no longer be upgraded, and no longer supports two 2.5″ drives.Īll Mac mini systems are configured by default without a display, keyboard, or mouse, but numerous Apple and third-party options are available.I guess you’re just not a technology company these days unless you’re designing your own microchips.
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It makes the machine much faster), and an “integrated” Intel Iris 5100 graphics processor that shares system memory.Ĭonnectivity includes two Thunderbolt 2 ports, four USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI port, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11ac Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n compatible), and Bluetooth 4.0 as well as an SDXC card slot.Ĭompared to its predecessor, this model looks identical, but it has a more advanced architecture and graphics, Thunderbolt 2 capability, and faster Wi-Fi. The Apple Mac mini “Core i7” 3.0 (Late 2014/Aluminum Unibody) features a 22 nm “Haswell” 3.0 GHz Intel “Core i7” (4578U) processor with two independent processor “cores” on a single chip, a 4 MB shared level 3 cache, 16 GB of onboard 1600 MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 256GB Solid State Hard Drive” (Solid State Hard Drive is a far supperior hard drive to the old standard hard drives. Other than the processor (and its corresponding level 3 cache), this model can be identical to its “stock” counterparts. The Mac mini “Core i7” 3.0 (Late 2014/Aluminum Unibody) technically is a “configure-to-order” option for the MGEN2LL/A Mac mini “Core i5” 2.6 (Late 2014) and MGEQ2LL/A Mac mini “Core i5” 2.8 (Late 2014), but also is documented as a separate model for reader convenience.
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