Mac Mini teardown reveals notebook PC components
updated 10:45 am EDT, Thu August 11, 2005
Mac Mini teardown
iSuppli today issued a press release describing , featuring a 1.25GHz G4 with 256MB of DDR333 SDRAM and a 40GB hard drive. Concluding that it featured a "cutting-edge design that showcases Apple’s aplomb for developing elegant systems, iSuppli said that the Mac Mini was a PC that is designed and built like a laptop, with an estimated bill-of-materials cost of $275. Some features specific to notebooks discovered include the power supply which is external, and major components including the hard drive and the optical disk drive which employ the laptop form factor. The Semiconductors used in the Mac mini are highly integrated, particularly the core-logic ASIC, which integrates the functions typically found in separate Northbridge and Southbridge chips into a single device, according to the release.
