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Entries Tagged ‘Mac Mini’

Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server a “fantastic deal”

Reviewer Jason Snell (macworld.com) awards Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server 4.5/5 mice, calling it a “fantastic product for workgroups, small businesses, and even schools to use.” Emphasing value, Snell adds: “Mac mini server is just too good a deal to pass up.”
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Apple Blurs the Server Line With Mac Mini Server

Toe, The writes “Today Apple announced several new hardware offerings, including a new Mac mini, their (almost-literally) pint-sized desktop computer. In a bizarre twist, they are now also offering a Mac mini with Mac OS X Server bundled in, along with a two hard drives somehow stuffed into the tiny package. Undoubtedly, many in the [...]

Apple hint at thinner iMacs, lighter MacBooks, cheaper Minis

A trio of online advertisements that appear to have been published prematurely by one of Apple’s international online stores suggest it’s only a matter of days before the Mac maker takes the wraps off of new families of ultra-thin iMacs, lighter & thinner plastic MacBooks, and more affordable Mac minis.
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Apple’s $600 Mac Mini Costs Nearly $400 to Make

An Apple Mac Mini desktop was the latest victim to go under the iSuppli screwdriver for a teardown, and what the company found inside added up to approximately $376.20 — or $387.14 after manufacturing costs. With an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and Nvidia graphics, the Mac Mini has some bang for the buck.
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Setting up a Mac mini media center

In this week’s Macworld Video, Chris Breen caps off a week of coverage with a video overview of what you can do to make your Mac mini a welcome member of the family AV center.
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Mac mini media center: Is it worth it?

All week long, Christopher Breen has show you how to assemble a media center using a Mac mini as the centerpiece. Now he turns his attention to the Big Picture: Is it worth the hassle? And how does it compare to an Apple TV?
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Up close with the Mac media center

After devoting our last podcast episode to just about everything except the Macintosh, Chris Breen makes amends by discussing nothing but the Mac—specifically the Mac mini.
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Getting content on your Mac mini media center

So you’ve upgraded your Mac mini to make it an effective media center. You’ve connected it to your AV components and even configured Apple’s software. Now what about content? Christopher Breen shows you ways to get additional digital content and how to use third-party media applications to access it.
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Mac media center: Configuring Front Row

Christopher Breen’s effort to turn a Mac mini into a media center continues, as he hooks up the computer to his AV system and configures the built-in media applications.
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Revew: Apple’s New Mac Mini Much More Versatile

In the four years since the Mac Mini was introduced, and Apple has added some solid firepower under the hood, while leaving the Mini’s basic nature intact.
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Review: Mac mini 2009 edition

The new Mac mini models provide the most significant upgrades to the line yet, offering slightly better CPU performance, considerably improved video capabilities, increased expandability, and better wireless technology. The result is that for the first time, the Mac mini is a computer that’s truly capable of handling the iLife suite. More than ever, it’s [...]

Is the Mac mini overpriced?

Some people think Apple should have cut the Mac mini’s price when it updated the entry-level desktop. Jim Dalrymple doesn’t agree.
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Benchmarks: New Mac minis

The Mac mini, waiting patiently on the sidelines for the past 17 months, has finally been refreshed. Though the new systems appears identical to the previous Mac mini, there are some important changes internally—changes that have a positive impact to the tune of a 21 percent increase in overall system performance, according to our testing.
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Mac mini CPU soldered – WTF?

So, what do the good people of digg think… is the mac mini worth buying? Do the pros outweigh the cons on this little laptop in a box?
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Mac Mini Update: The Readers Speak

We asked you what you made of this week’s Mac mini update, and you spoke.
The comments were a decent mix of for and against. Some people agreed with my post, in which I said that the new mini was not as good value as it used to be.
JD said: “I love OSX and how [...]
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