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The present second-gen Sandy Bridge Intel Core i5 processor is instrumental in making day-to-day tasks like browsing the Web, working with office documents, listening to music and watching a movie a breeze on the Mac mini. The Apple Mac mini’s performance prowess is quite good, based on our usage of the machine. Visit page two for a look at the Apple Mac Mini 2011's performance, and our verdict.

Anything more, and you’ll have to juice it up. Overall, we find the offering of connectivity ports and internal hardware on the Mac mini to be adequate for an HTPC or an average mini computer.

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Wireless communication protocols like Wi-Fi 802.11n and Bluetooth are also included, so is an HDMI to DVI converter. There’s also a FireWire 800 port present on the Apple Mac mini, doubtless for legacy products. You’ll also find four USB ports, HDMI, SDXC card slot, microphone and headphone jacks. The biggest talking point here is the inclusion of a Thunderbolt port, now standard across all Apple’s Mac offerings, which helps connect an external display capable of 2560x1600 pixel resolution. We expect that sooner or later, you will have to bump up the RAM.Īll its connectivity ports are accessible on one horizontal panel at the Mac mini’s behind. Also the entry-level Mac mini comes with just 2 GB of RAM, which is adequate for the time being but doesn’t really future-proof the product for a longer duration.

#Mac mini 2011 htpc review install

But yes, you’ll need an external DVD writer to install an older program, which adds to the cost. First, there’s no optical drive on or bundled with the Mac mini - what with Apple now allowing OS X 10.7 Lion re-install through recovery partition and USB sticks. It’s the best hardware we’ve seen on the mini, and Apple sells another version of the mini that comes with even better hardware specs (head over to In terms of bundled features, there are two main talking points on the new Apple Mac mini. The Apple Mac mini comes with decent hardware: a second generation Sandy Bridge 2.3-GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 2 GB of DDR3 RAM (can be bumped up to 8 GB later), 500 GB 5,400 rpm hard drive, and for the first time an AMD GPU - the AMD Radeon HD 6630M, along with an onboard Intel HD 3000 graphics. But we have no complaints on the Apple Mac mini’s constitution. It is amazing to think Apple has crammed in so much in so little space with the Mac mini 2011.Īll the connectivity ports on the Mac mini are relegated on its back panel, and its bottom panel can be easily turned anti-clockwise to gain access to the mini computer’s RAM and Wi-Fi modules - servicing the hard drive requires screwdrivers and a lot of patience. The greatest triumph in the Mac mini’s design is its extremely anorexic dimensions - 7.75 x 7.75 x 1.41 inch. Its unibody single-block aluminium design is much the same as its predecessor, and the Mac mini looks so simple yet so elegant on the desk-not to forget its tiny, solid, and compact form factor. The Apple Mac mini continues to be made out of a single block of aluminium, much like the MacBook Air.