On March 3, 2009, 19 months after the previous update, Apple updated the Mac Mini, featuring new nVidia chipsets and the new mini DisplayPort that has become standard on all the current Macintosh computers. It also features new peripherals, but it still looks almost the same as its predecessor. The new Mac Mini featured an nVidia GeForce 9400M, allowing for more graphically intensive applications to be run than before. This model shipped with 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo standard, upgradable to 2.26 GHz, at the same price as earlier versions in the U.S. The Mac Mini came with 1 GB RAM standard and 2 GB in the higher-end model, although it was expandable to 4 GB. Also, the wireless networking had been upgraded to 802.11n, the number of USB ports had been increased to five, and the FireWire 400 port was replaced with a FireWire 800 port. .... Read More
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Nobody is going to use the Mini as their primary gaming machine—as you can see in my Xbench and Geekbench testing, the two Mini configs always trailed more expensive Mac systems, and in many tests fared the same or worse than their predecessors—but between the Core 2 Duo and the 9400M graphics, it's a solid computer ... Read More
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