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Apple Revives the Mac Mini, Now in Aluminium With HDMI

by Matthew Zuras on June 15, 2010 at 09:50 AM

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Hey, remember this thing called the Mac Mini? Apparently Apple thought there was still some demand for its only monitor-less, stand-alone box, and decided to give it a 2010 makeover with the now-standard aluminum unibody possessed by the rest of the Mac family. The main reason that the old Mac Mini was such a total suck piece of hardware was that, while relatively inexpensive compared to the rest of the Apple line, you had to buy either an outrageously expensive Cinema Display or third-party monitor. (But, pshaw, we all know that you can't mix and match with Apple's aesthetic.) Plus, the wee box had no built-in connectivity to your TV.

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Well, we guess Apple heard about this whole craze called "high-def," and finally decided to include HDMI outputs. Woo! Priced at $699, the new Mac Mini comes with some updated guts, as well: an SD card reader, a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, two gigabytes of RAM and a 320 gigabyte hard drive. Graphics performance is allegedly given a boost with a new NVIDIA GeForce 320M chip, and all your old features -- like 8X Superdrive, 802.11n wireless connectivity and the insufferably stupid Mini DisplayPort -- still come standard. Serious Mac geeks will be heartened to know that "unibody" doesn't mean "impenetrable fortress" as much as it does with the Macbooks, so you can drop in some more memory if need be. But the big news here is really the HDMI, which means you can finally hook your Mac to your HDTV, and surf the Internets in 1080p style. [From: Engadget]

Tags: apple, AppleMacMini, computer, hdmi, HighDefinition, MacMini, top, UnibodyMacMini

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