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.
The two standard Mac mini configurations both come outfitted with 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors and either 1GB of RAM and a 120GB hard drive for US$599, or 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive for $799. The new Mac mini now has a 1,066MHz system bus, as well as 1,066MHz DDR3 memory, up from the 667MHz bus and DDR2 RAM in the previous Mac mini. The new systems support up to 4GB of RAM; the previous Mac mini only officially supported 2GBs, though some folks reported getting the older Mac mini to recognize up to 3GBs. The new Mac mini has 3GBs of shared L2 cache.
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