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Now Mac mini packs even more power, thanks to the latest dual-core Intel processor. It also features integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000, Thunderbolt, USB 3, and OS X.
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5
Awesome Product
on November 4, 2014
Posted by: Mizu
I waited for quite a long time for the new 2014 Mac Mini's to come out and what a disappointment they are. This model does have upgradeable RAM and you can also replace the hard drive. On my machine the upgrade to Yosemite was free. Seems to run just fine with Garageband that I've been using so far, and Pages is a nice simple document editor.
OS X Will be the same on any machine, so my experience is about the hardware, what I can't get over is just how silent the machine is. I've yet to hear the fan turn on and I've been running it decently hard.
Highly recommend, pick this model up over the new one, you'll have a better experience down the road since you can upgrade this if it's stock specs aren't enough.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Mac mini now has fourth-generation Intel Core processors, increased graphics performance, and ultrafast 802.11ac wireless networking. It also features two Thunderbolt 2 ports, great built-in apps, and OS X Yosemite. And it's still the world's most power-efficient desktop.
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2
Beautiful product, but not powerful enough.
on October 24, 2014
Posted by: Mizu
I've been waiting for this mac to come out for a long time. This mac mini and it's $699 brother both use the Haswell Intel processors which have better graphics and are a little more power efficient than the outgoing 3rd generation Ivy Bridge processors.
This base model Mac Mini seems to not entirely have a place at it's price point. Hardware wise if you have the knowledge on how to put together a computer this is about ~$275 in parts at the moment for a machine running Windows or Linux (375 with windows operating system). This is running OS X and does come with the iLife suite, personally the iLife suite was enough for me to pick one of these up for basic tasks like garage band and iMovie as I already have a powerful Windows computer.
I went ahead and purchased what's called the "Late 2012" Model Mac Mini. The reason for doing that is the upgrade from OS X Maverick to Yosemite is free, and with the late 2012 model you have the ability to upgrade the RAM. This new $499 model you're stuck with 4GB, of RAM, for the life of the product. Understand the user base for a mac isn't entirely familiar with upgrading components but at least the functionality is there if down the road you are running out of ram or hard drive space. Also sort of a downer is the outgoing late 2012 model has a 2.5GHz (Turbo 3.1) processor and while this new mac mini has a generation newer 1.4GHz (Turbo 2.7) doesn't match the 2.5GHz outgoing model.
I'd recommend looking into trying to find a late 2012 model. With the late 2012 model there's room for you to grow. I'm not sure if I'll need 8GB of ram as I'm just getting into mac and OS X, but at least if I need it I can just upgrade for ~$70. Buy the late 2012 model or step up the extra ~$200 to get the middle of the road model (At the moment $699) with a much more powerful processor, twice the storage and twice the ram already installed so you don't have to upgrade (late 2012) or purchase a new mac again in the future.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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