Photos: Apple Mac Mini gets a refresh
Aluminium box computing at a price...
Apple has refreshed its minimalist Mac Mini desktop PC.
The new Mini (shown above) is encased in a 1.4-inch-thick metal casing, carved from a single, solid block of aluminium.
The refreshed Mini has a faster graphic card - Nvidia GeForce 320M - than its predecessor and Apple claims graphics are now twice as speedy as the earlier generation.
On the front of the 7.7 x 7.7 x 1.4-inch device is a single slot for playing and burning CDs and DVDs.
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The back of the device has more holes than a Swiss cheese, however, including four USB 2.0 ports, a FireWire 800 port, and an SD card slot.
There's also an HDMI port and Mini DisplayPort for hooking the Mini up to an HDTV or digital display.
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The bottom of the Mac Mini sports a black, circle-shaped removable panel designed to make manual memory upgrades easier.
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By turning the disk to the left the panel can be lifted off...
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...to reveal the guts of the Mini (shown above).
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Here's a close-up of the Mac Mini's interior. The device comes with 2GB or 4GB of memory, depending on price, but can be upgraded to accommodate 8GB.
The Mini runs Mac OS X Snow Leopard and packs either a 2.4GHz or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor - costing either £649 or £929 respectively.
The more expensive Mini runs Snow Leopard Server, which Apple is targeting at SMEs.
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