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03/21/2008, 5:20pm, EDT
Friday, March 21st
Mac mini to soon receive complete overhaul
The Mac mini is supposedly getting an internal overhaul, rather than fading into nonexistence, as popular belief would indicate. According to AppleInsider, the miniature computer is to see the 45-nanometer Core 2 Duo chip, starting at 2.1GHz, with an 800MHz frontside buss and the Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor. This alleged update comes after almost a year of shipping the same model, without any major changes.
The future of the Mac mini is frequently called into question, since the line rarely receives the lavishing attention that Apple's other computer lines see. Several updates to the platform have been quiet, with the specifications listed on the product page, a "New" tag in the online store, and little fanfare.
AppleInsider says that while no official date has been given for the update, the Penryn-3M-based systems were in the engineering build stage around the middle of March. The publication also predicts that the aluminum iMacs will receive an upgrade to Penryn as well in the near future.
Filed under: Apple, computers, industry
Other story tags: Penryn, Core 2 Duo, Mac mini
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It is an alternate spelling only if you consider incorrect as alternate.
++if it had Blu-Ray too 8)
Bring back the cube.
Also, just before that update Apple Insider was crowing about how the mini was shortly going to be killed off - now they are saying there's going to be yet another update - wow!
The only complaint I have about the mini is the stupid external power supply. It doesn't effectively make the device any smaller, just makes it more complex. Oh, and the way they make it really hard to upgrade the RAM - just make it easy to open up for a start. FW800 would be good too!