The New Apple Mac Mini - Apples greatest portable Mac?
Apple’s Mac mini portable computer has had a revamp, making it not only the smallest, but the most powerful incarnation of the device, with more connectivity than ever before!
The 2010 edition now features a HDMI port for hooking up to a hi-def display as well as a SD card reader for easy transfer of multimedia content to compliment the existing USB, firewire and eathernet ports and all important optical drive. It also boasts a faster Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 2.66GHz and an improved nVidia 320m graphics card and a 320GB hard-drive but has taken a step down from 4GB to 2GB of RAM. With all that extra bulk you’d expect a little swell around the waistline but Apple has managed to slim down a little with a body measuring just 19.4cm square by 3.6cm tall. There has, as with all smaller gizmos, been a hike in price and the new mini will cost a cool £649, but for this powerful and portable Mac, boasting the Snow Leopard OS, it doesn’t really seem that bad!
So once again Apple have taken one of their existing products and made us want it that little bit more but tweeking it in ways we hadn’t thought of. If a bit of a hike in cost is the price to pay for such excellent technology then I, personally, am happy to pay. Any one who isn’t…well I guess you an always wait for the price to come down.