3/29/2023 0 Comments 2012 mac mini specsIt will be interesting to see how Apple has managed to find space for the dGPU and its cooling, especially because the Thunderbolt controller is a discrete chip as well. The old PPC Mac minis used discrete GPUs but since the transition to Intel CPUs in 2006, the Mac mini has been stuck with IGPs - first Intel GMAs and then NVIDIA since early 2009. This is the first Intel Mac mini to adopt a discrete GPU. First, the high-end Mini now comes with a discrete AMD Radeon HD 6630M GPU. The consumer models also come with 500GB HDDs instead of 320GB while the server model’s storage remains unchanged (2x500GB 7200rpm). A smaller update is that all models now come with 1333MHz DDR3, similar to the rest of the Mac lineup. Every Mini now comes with one Thunderbolt port as well, which replaces the Mini DisplayPort, just like in the 2011 MBPs. This is definitely good news.Īs for the hardware updates, the two most obvious ones are Core i5 and Core i7 Sandy Bridge CPUs and Thunderbolt. The server model retains its $999 price tag. The 2011 Mac Mini in fact adopts the old pricing model as before the 2010 update, the Minis were priced $599 and $799 respectively. The most obvious change is a drop in price: the entry-level Mini is now $599 and the high-end is $799, instead of $699 and $849 like the previous generation. Thunderbolt, HDMI, FireWire 800, 4x USB 2.0, SDXC card slot, Gigabit Ethernet, audio in/out The Mac mini lineup has been like this since late 2009 when the server model was first introduced. Like the previous generation, there are three models: two consumer and one server. There are no major chassis changes to the new Mac mini (sans the missing CD/DVD slot). The Mini saw its last update on June 15 th 2010 so a refresh was widely expected and also a bit overdue. The Mac mini is yet another Mac to be updated with Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs and Thunderbolt.
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