New Mac mini Delivers Performance Up to Four Times
Faster
Apple® today unveiled the new Mac® mini with the Intel Core Duo
processor, delivering performance up to four times faster than its
predecessor and providing even greater expansion in the same
innovative and incredibly compact design.* Starting at just $599,
the Mac mini is the most affordable way to enjoy iLife® 06, the
next generation of Apples award-winning suite of digital lifestyle
applications, and features the Apple Remote and Front Row so you
can play your music, enjoy your photo slideshows, watch your DVDs,
iMovies, music videos and television shows from across the
room.
With the new Mac mini, Apple has now moved 50 percent of its
entire product line to Intel within 60 daysa record transition,
said Philip Schiller, Apples senior vice president of Worldwide
Product Marketing. The new Mac mini is now up to four times faster
with the Intel Core Duo, includes even greater expansion in the
same incredibly compact design, and is the most affordable way to
enjoy Front Row and iLife 06.
Featuring the next generation of Apples breakthrough Front Row
media experience, the new Mac mini gives customers a simple way to
enjoy their digital lifestyle content on the Mac mini including
music, photos and videos from across the room using the Apple
Remote. With the latest version of Front Row, customers can now
effortlessly access shared iTunes® playlists, iPhoto® libraries and
video throughout their home via Bonjour, Apples zero
configuration wireless networking built into Mac OS® X.
The new Mac mini offers a completely new system architecture for
performance up to four times as fast as the previous Mac mini,
including a 667 MHz front-side bus and 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory
expandable to 2GB. With the latest high-performance connectivity
options, every new Mac mini now includes built-in 10/100/1000
BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet for high-speed networking, built-in
AirPort® Extreme 802.11g WiFi for fast 54 Mbps wireless
networking**, built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) and a
total of four USB 2.0 ports, twice as many as the previous
generation. Mac mini includes a DVI interface and a VGA-out adapter
to easily connect to a variety of displays, including many of
todays most popular flat panel televisions, and now features both
analog and digital audio outputs to easily connect to a home
stereo.
The new Mac mini includes iLife 06, the next generation of Apples
award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications featuring
major new versions of iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD®, GarageBand and
introducing iWeb, a new iLife application that makes it super-easy
to create amazing websites with photos, blogs and Podcasts and
publish them on .Mac for viewing by anyone on the Internet with
just a single click. All the iLife 06 applications are Universal
applications that run natively on the new Intel-based Mac mini for
maximum performance.
Every new Mac mini comes with the latest release of the worlds
most advanced operating system, Mac OS X version 10.4 Tiger
including Safari, Mail, iCal®, iChat AV and Front Row, running
natively. Mac OS X Tiger includes an innovative software
translation technology called Rosetta that lets customers run most
Mac OS X PowerPC applications seamlessly.
