Mac OS X includes support for remapping the Windows alt and option keys to option and cmd respectively. Apple says buyers can plug in their favorite USB keyboard and mouse – or buy Apple’s offerings. The Mac mini doesn’t include a keyboard or mouse. For power users, the i7 model can be ordered with a 2.6 GHz CPU for $100 additional. The 2012 Mac mini uses Intel HD Graphics 4000 instead of the 3000 found in last year’s Mac mini Server.Ĥ GB of memory is standard, expandable to 16 GB. This was the last Mac mini to include built-in FireWire support. There are four USB 3 ports, along with Thunderbolt, FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 devices can be used with a FireWire 800-to-400 cable or adapter), ethernet, HDML, and SDXC for memory cards. This is the first time the Mac mini has USB 3, which is up to 10x as fast as USB 2.0, and the Mac mini uses the same $79 USB SuperDrive as the MacBook Air and Retina MacBook models. It normally ships with two 1 TB 5400 rpm hard drives and can also be ordered with one or two 256 GB SSDs. The Server is not available with Apple’s new Fusion Drive technology. And if that’s not enough power, a 2.6 GHz build-to-order option ($100 additional) should boost performance another 13% or so. 8530 for last year’s 2.0 GHz quad-core i7 server), which is an impresive 25% better. The new sever model is based on Intel’s Ivy Bridge chipset and uses a quad-core 2.3 GHz i7 – it has the highest Geekbench score ever for a Mini at 10642 (vs. Well, that’s far more true of the consumer model than the Server.

You can also order it with a 256 GB SSD and a 7200 rpm 750 GB hard drive – or even a pair of 256 GB SSDs! Way More Power?Īpple claims the Late 2012 Mac mini has “way more power”. The 2012 Server is essentially the same as the top-end consumer model, but with OS X Server installed and two hard drives instead of one. dual-core CPUs in regular Minis), and OS X Server installed. The 2011 Mac mini Server was a normal Mac mini with two hard drives, a quad-core i7 CPU (vs.

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