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For its combination of great build quality, connectivity, and sub-$500 price, we award the Apple Mac mini our Editors’ Choice for consumer-oriented SFF desktops.”Īpple updates Mac mini now starts at just $499 – October 16, 2014
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“Its only true drawback is the lack of internal memory expansion, and that’s something that’s becoming commonplace among Macs and Windows PCs every day. It’s much less expensive than the gaming-oriented Maingear Spark and performs better on the multimedia benchmark tests as well,” Santo Domingo writes. “It is better connected than the Acer Aspire AXC-604-UR11 and much more cost effective than the Polywell i2304-i5. It’s the small-form-factor (SFF) consumer desktop to beat, thanks to a solid chassis, convenient wired and wireless connectivity, and an OS that hands off to the Apple devices in your pocket, all at a reasonable price.” “It’s now less expensive, but still has all the quality and OS X integration we’ve come to expect.
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Like its previous iterations, it’s built into a sleek aluminum unibody chassis, and is one of the more compact desktop PCs on the market,” Joel Santo Domingo writes for PC Magazine. It may be a bit difficult to figure out where it fits into your life, but keep it in mind: It will fit anywhere in your home.“The Apple Mac mini ($499) is the least expensive new Macintosh computer you can buy. The mini is a cool PC, with many qualities. My elven rogue character scuttled around snappily at high resolution with the game set to the lowest level of graphical detail. I installed Dragon Age: Origins, probably the Mac game with the highest computing demands right now. It's also not a gaming powerhouse, but the Mac isn't a big platform for games anyway. It's adequate for editing even high-definition video, but not ideal. The mini has roughly the same computing horsepower as a MacBook, and less than an iMac, which starts at $ 1,200. It comes with 2 gigabytes, which is fine for casual use, but if you're editing video, you'll want more.
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The redesign of the case brings one functional benefit: It's now possible to open a hatch at the bottom to upgrade the memory. The mini has a built-in DVD drive, but Apple does not yet support Blu-ray drives.
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I connected the mini to a 50-inch LCD TV, and enjoyed a high-definition home movie, TV shows from and a game on the big screen. The power adapter is now built into the case. In another aesthetically pleasing feat of engineering, Apple has done away with the power brick, which truly was brick-sized on the previous model. It can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi, making a cable unnecessary. The fan and hard drive are practically inaudible. It helps that the mini is so small: just 1.4 inches high and 7.5 inches square. The mini won't look out of place in the most elegant living room. It's not really necessary - desktops are sturdy by default - but it's how you get those natty knife-edge corners. The case of the new mini is made the same way. It's an expensive process, but it adds rigidity to the frame and looks sleek. Lately, Apple has been making the chassis for its laptops by hollowing out blocks of aluminum, then stuffing the components inside. The case is another example of Apple obsessing over details that other manufacturers don't sweat. As it often does, it's favoring form over function. That's not convenient, especially if you're sliding the mini into the entertainment center.Īpple obviously wants to keep the front of the device as clean as possible, shoving all the messy details to the rear. Unfortunately, the power button is still at the back of the device, and that's where they've placed the SD slot too. It's the first Mac with a built-in HDMI port. That means one cable can carry high-quality audio and video from the mini at the same time. It has an SD slot, which makes it much easier to transfer photos and camcorder footage to the hard drive, and it has an HDMI jack. The new model addresses two of those three concerns. A few months ago, I looked at several PCs for this role, and concluded that the Mac mini of the time was great, except that it lacked an SD card slot and an HDMI jack for easy connection to the TV and/or receiver, and that the power button was in the wrong place.
Third, the mini is a great option if you want to connect your living-room TV to the Internet and your collection of movies, music and photos. The basic model now comes with a 320 gigabyte hard drive, enough for most purposes and twice the size of the old basic model. It could also be a "home base" computer, acting as a backup and file server for the household's laptops.
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