Apple’s Mac mini may get a major overhaul
Posted by Dave Merten 
Mar 21, 2008 at 4:51pm
Last fall, AppleInsider reported that Apple’s Mac mini was about to reach the end of its life-cycle and possibly be discontinued. Well, according to their latest update on the matter, it sounds like Apple has a small team of engineers that may redesign the inside of the mini.
Among the improvements AppleInsider reported, are 45-nanometer Core 2 Duo mobile chips starting at 2.1GHz with 3MB of shared L2 cache, an 800MHz front-side bus (up from 667MHz), and a step up to the same Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics processor employed by the existing line of 13-inch consumer MacBooks. They also reported, while those people familiar with plans for the Mac mini were unclear on a precise release date for the forthcoming makeover, the Penryn-3M-based systems reportedly remained within the engineering build stage as of mid-month.
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Dave was one of the founding guides at ‘The Mining Company,’ now known as About.com, in February 1998. Dave was their ‘Focus on Mac Support’ guide. In 2004 he started ‘G5 Owners Support Group,’ and in 2005, renamed it ‘Mac Owners Support Group.’ In 2006, he started the ‘MacOSG Support Corner’ column here at Macsimum News.
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