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.
like omg
08/11, 11:17am reply
This is news? Who couldn't looked at iMac or Mac Mini and NOT think it's got laptop parts? HELLO! iMac G3 had a POP OUT LAPTOP TRAY for christ's sake! Apple's famous of making slim desktops out of laptop parts.
ibugv4
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jun 2003
Yeah
08/11, 11:35am reply
Welcome to 8 months ago!
bighead
Mac Enthusiast
Joined: Feb 2001
Thanks
08/11, 11:53am reply
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.
"Discovered." Thanks a lot. I was eating a bowl of cereal at the time and shot milk out my nose all over my keyboard.
SomeToast
Senior User
Joined: Jan 1999
No sh*t sherlock!
08/11, 12:40pm reply
Genius award is deserved here.
Where is Captian Obvious when you need him?
Eriamjh
Addicted to MacNN
Joined: Oct 2001
Original iMac
08/11, 01:01pm reply
The original iMac has fewer boards than my Lombard laptop. Seriously, these guys are the better part of a decade out of touch with reality. Apple are famous for their tiny form factor computers. Anyone remember the LC pizza box series? Gee I miss the good old days.
Perhaps someone should save these guys the trouble of an iPod Mini tear down and tell them that it uses flash memory like just about every other small electronic device and that it has the same kind of head phone jack that was used on the original SoundBlaster card.
beeble
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Mar 2004
Damn
08/11, 02:49pm reply
And I thought it was really a super-computer in some kind of tardis-like casing.
LOL
adrian_milliner
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jun 2005
WTF?
08/11, 04:44pm reply
I thought the Mac mini was the first computer made with wafer-thin silicon components and fiber optic technology.
But laptop parts?! I was punk'd, dammit!
MChieh
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jul 2000
so...
08/11, 05:05pm reply
Does bit of "news" confirm what I've been suspecting all along, and that the Mini won't run Motion?
I shot some Ice Cream out my nose reading this bit of info. Why haven't the other mac site caught wind of this?
lsrdsc
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jan 2004
lol...
08/11, 07:13pm reply
"shot cream out of my nose"
From your boyfriend, I'm guessing... Why haven't the other g** sites caught wind of this...?
sosumi
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: May 1999
Hehe
08/12, 08:49am reply
Yeah talk about obvious! Some people will write about ANYTHING! By the way, beeble: The iPod mini uses a hard drive, not flash memory ;)
Doug Brown
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: May 2000