New Mac Mini: With Dual-Core Intel

Posted Feb 28th 2006 2:22PM by Ajit Anthony
Filed under: Editing, Hardware, At Home

Apple has the site up for the new Mac Mini which now features an Intel Dual core chip, no design changes as far as I can tell. Front Row and the remote are also now included. With each passing revision, the Mac Mini is becoming less of a computer and more of a media center.

Update: With the Intel Dual Core, I can see this machine being a decent DV editing machine, mind you, the hard drive is still pretty slow but that can be solved with an external firewire drive. The Bus speed and RAM power though still hold back this machine from being anything close to a G5 or the likes.

Reader Comments

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1. Exactly. It's not made to replace the G5 line, because Apple wasn't born yesterday. It's a home media center. Duh.

Posted at 11:08PM on Feb 28th 2006 by lol

2. You aren't perceptive are you? Mac Mini replacing G5 is not stated anywhere in the post. But it is quite common for people to use a Mac Mini for editing. Some people assume the processor is the only thing that makes a computer fast. Just clearing the air if you will.

BTW, lol, your website url's are cute, in a grade school sort of way.

Posted at 11:33PM on Feb 28th 2006 by Ajit Anthony

3. I'm wondering about the 4 usb ports... they've got something up their sleeves. I think this machine will keep evolving.

Posted at 1:34PM on Mar 1st 2006 by editblog

4. I'm happy to see that you picked up on the gradeschool urls. It was the only right thing to do, in keeping with your gradeschool quality posting chops.
Thanks for the discourse, and keep up the mediocre work!

Posted at 10:59PM on Mar 1st 2006 by lol

5. I think I have an admirer. Or should I say a stalker, eh Pierre?

Posted at 11:55PM on Mar 1st 2006 by Ajit Anthony

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