New Intel Mac Minis
Damnit! I waited too long to flip my Mac Mini PPC on eBay… Now that Steve’s announced the Intel Mac Minis, it’s going to be a hard sell. If you were holding out on switching, the new Mac Mini’s look a lot more attractive than they were before. From the Engadget live-blog of the event:
10:09am PT - Introduced the iMac, doing really well out there, MacBook Pro reviews are off the charts, two of the things helping this transition are universal applications. Rosetta turned out to be much stronger than we thought it would be, running most PowerPC apps. Today we’re introducing our third machine, the mac mini based on Intel’s Core Solo processor.
10:11am PT - It’s two and a half to three times faster in the same box. Also, putting a core duo processor in the Mini, it’s 4.8x to 5.5x faster. We have a product that’s over five times faster in the same form factor. We’ve added gigabit ethernet and doubled the number of USB 2 ports to four. Analog and SPDIF input and output. And its really quiet, it’s a pretty great product.
Ooohh.. Audio-input – something that was missing on the previous generations of Mac Minis. But this is nowhere near the point of giving me Buyer’s Remorse (not like those poor folks who bought the iMac G5 a couple of months before they announced the iMac Core Duo).
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