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Article: New Mac minis get speed boost: all tiny Macs now have Core Duo chips.(personal computers)(Product/service evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Lost amid the flurry of Apple's late-summer product announcements was a small but significant upgrade to the Mac mini line: Apple dropped the low-end 1.5GHz Mac mini Core Solo, lowered the price of the 1.66GHz Mac mini Core Duo model to $599, and released a new top-of-the-line $799 Mac mini, powered by a 1.83GHz Core Duo processor. It's a solid, if unexciting, upgrade to Apple's smallest desktop Mac.
Except for the processor, the new high-end Mac mini is essentially identical to the first round of Mac minis with Intel processors (macworld.com/1501), which were released earlier this year: it comes with an Apple Remote, a built-in infrared receiver for the remote, ...