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Apple Mac Mini, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB, 320 GB, GeForce 320M, SD
 
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Apple Mac Mini, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB, 320 GB, GeForce 320M, SD

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Product Specifications
General
Brand:Apple
Processor
Processor Type:Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Count:2
Memory
RAM Size:2 GB
Hard Drive
Hard Drive Size:320 GB
Additional Specifications
Wattage:85 watts
Operating System:Apple Mac OS X

Technical Details

  • A sleek aluminum enclosure hides a powerful, full-size computer.
  • NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics--perfect for 3D games and video.
  • The world's most environmentally efficient desktop computer.
  • Plug in your own display, keyboard and mouse--works with almost anything.
  • Mac OS X operating system is custom built for the advanced technology inside.
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Product details

  • Item Weight: 1.4 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 2.5 Kg
  • Item model number: MC270B/A
  • ASIN: B003S9WSMI
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 16 Jun 2010
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 15,411 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
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Product Description

The new Mac mini can be mixed and matched with all your favourite Mac acccessories.
The new Mac mini can be mixed and matched with all your favourite Mac acccessories.

Introducing the New Mac mini

With its ultra-thin aluminium design, huge selection of ports to connect all your favourite peripherals (including your HDTV), increased graphical power and memory storage, what you do with your all-new Mac mini is up to you.

An Incredibly Compatible Computer

If you already have it, chances are you can use it with Mac mini. Plug in your own display, keyboard and mouse. Turn it on. And just like that, everything works together. You can even swap peripherals with another desktop computer. That’s one of the great things about Mac mini. You can mix and match it with just about anything.

Mac Mini Comes to the Big Screen

It’s easy to connect Mac mini to the biggest screen in the house--your HDTV--courtesy of a built-in HDMI port. Plug in one HDMI cable and start enjoying content on your Mac mini in brilliant HD. Like films and TV programmes from iTunes, the Internet and your photo library. There’s also a handy control that lets you easily adjust the output on Mac mini to fill even the biggest HDTV screen. And when you just want to listen to music, you can play your entire iTunes collection through your home entertainment centre, or stream it to a set of speakers in any room via an AirPort Express Base Station.

A Great Little Performer

Souped-up Graphics

Mac mini refuses to act its size. It gives you next-generation NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics--the fastest integrated graphics processor on the market today--and speedy DDR3 memory. With 48 processing cores and 256 MB of shared video memory, this graphics processor delivers up to twice the performance of the previous generation. It brings more pixel-pushing power to the latest 3D games and graphics-intensive applications. And you’ll notice a big difference when you work with high-resolution photos and high-definition video. The most surprising part? You don’t have to sacrifice efficiency for speed. The NVIDIA GeForce 320M is more energy efficient than its predecessor. All of which proves you really can do more with less.

More Memory, More Oomph

A little Mac mini goes a long way. With up to 8GB of memory, Mac mini supports twice the memory of the previous generation. So now you can run more applications at the same time. Mac mini is powered by a 2.4GHz or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, with a superfast 1066MHz frontside bus and 3MB of L2 cache for a nice little performance boost. Which goes to show that size can be deceiving.

Instant Connection

The latest 802.11n wireless technology is built into every Mac mini. It automatically connects to your Wi-Fi network, so you can get right down to surfing the web, printing and streaming your music wirelessly. Bluetooth wireless technology is also built in, so you can connect accessories such as a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Easily organise your photos, movies and music using iLife software included with every Mac
Easily organise your photos, movies and music using the included iLife software. View larger.

The Things You Do Every Day--Better

The things you do most often on a computer, like browsing the web, checking email and working with Microsoft Office files, are some of the things a Mac does best.

Perfect for Everyday Everything

A Mac comes with everything you need for your email, calendar, contacts, browsing the Internet and more. It’s all part of the Mac operating system: Mac OS X Snow Leopard. And since Apple makes the applications, they all work together seamlessly.

Do Amazing Things with Photos, Movies and Music

Take home a Mac and right away you can start doing cool stuff with iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand. They’re part of iLife. And they’re included with every new Mac.

Storage and Memory--There's Room to Grow

Personal space

Now you can get a 320 GB or 500 GB hard drive and pack in your photo libraries, films, music, files and more, more, more. You can also play and burn all the DVDs and CDs you want with the fast, slot-loading SuperDrive.

DIY Memory

Thanks to a removable bottom panel, now it’s easy to open Mac mini and add memory. Just a slight twist of the panel and you’re inside Mac mini. Simply pop your memory into the SO-DIMM slot then twist the panel back on. And you’re done.

The Mac mini is the most energy-efficient Mac desktop ever produced
The Mac mini is the most energy-efficient Mac desktop ever produced.

Environmentally Friendly Design

Apple approaches environmental responsibility through our products. That’s why a Mac is designed to be energy efficient, free of many toxins and highly recyclable.

Energy Efficiency

Because Apple designs both hardware and software, we can reduce our environmental footprint in ways others can't. For starters, a highly efficient power supply reduces the amount of power wasted when bringing electricity from the wall to your Mac. Unlike a lot of PCs, a Mac uses energy-efficient hardware components that work hand in hand with the operating system to conserve power--even between keystrokes.

Fewer Toxic Substances

A Mac doesn't contain a lot of toxic materials. Mac mini is free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC)4 and brominated flame retardants (BFRs)

Recyclability

When a Mac reaches the end of its long life, the materials it’s made from — like aluminium — make it highly desirable to recyclers.

Plenty of Ports Make it Ready for Anything

Mac mini makes things happen. It can connect to any digital display right out of the box. In addition to HDMI, Mac mini comes with both Mini DisplayPort output and an HDMI-to-DVI adapter, so it’s ready to connect to the Apple LED Cinema Display or a third-party display you already have. You can even connect two displays to see more of your photos, films and files. And there’s a built-in SD card slot, which makes it easy to grab photos and videos from your digital still or video camera. Mac mini gives you ports galore: four USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire 800 port, so you can plug in your keyboard, mouse, iPod, iPhone, iPad, digital camera, DV camcorder, external hard drive, printer and just about any other device you use.

The new Mac mini includes firewire, USB 2.0, HDMI and SD card slots

Product Description

Apple Mac mini - DTS - 1 x Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz - RAM 2 GB - HDD 1 x 320 GB - DVD±


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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By keribillen TOP 500 REVIEWER
We're on to our fourth Mac Mini. We bought ours as a 2.4GHz machine with 4GB of RAM and 500GB HDD storage, principally as a home media hub (connected to our stereo and TV in the same manner as the previous three we had).

Compared to the older machines:
1) It is lower and wider.
2) It is quieter and runs cooler (not that the old ones got hot...maybe a little warm).
3) It can easily play 1080p H.264 videos and 720p MPEG4 videos (with sufficient bit rates), which the previous generations (even with a 2.0GHz Core2Duo and 2GB/3GB of RAM) could not do.
4) It has one less USB port than the previous one we had, which is a minor pain.
5) It has HDMI out, which means we can throw away the DVI<>HDMI adapter. In fact, the previous generation had a very poor mini-DVI output, and I was glad to see the back of that.
6) The RAM can be upgraded.
7) The DVD drive is a tad noisier.

We use ours mainly for watching and recording live TV (we have an Elgato DVB-T tuner installed), watching iPlayer HD, playing Guitar Hero (does this very well) and as our home music/video source.

I don't think there is a viable alternative anywhere. It is so good and unobtrusive as a media centre that I forget I am using a computer.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By bcen80
This is a great little Mac and does what you would expect. Finances dictated my choice, but after too many years using Windows boxes I wanted to get back onto a Mac!

I am absolutely loving it so far, it's nippy and fun to use. OS X is great, it's fast (and though these ship 10.6.3 it does update to 10.6.5 once online). My experience with it is much more enjoyable than any version of Windows I've used. For anyone looking for a first computer, or to switch from Windows, I thoroughly recommend you give a Mac a go.

The mac mini may be a little bit overpriced, but then so are most of what Apple sell - to counter that I would say that it works and works very well. Mac OS X is fabulous too, easy and fun.

Great little machine.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
It just works... 4 Sep 2011
By ADub
Bought this for use as a media centre in Dec 2010. Still going strong and now running Lion OS. It's absolutely fantastic. I have been an Apple convert since early 2005 and cannot stand Windows or PC's anymore. Apple takes into consideration user compatibility, ease of use and eye catching design.

Anyone can just pick up a Mac and use it and this goes without saying for the Mac Mini. This is better than the newer model as it features a DVD-RW superdrive and the new one doesn't. The new one does have thunderbolt but not many thunderbolt devices are out yet. This also doesn't have the power brick transformer which is good. And it doesn't use too much power on standby. Brilliant.

If you purchase this you will need a monitor, keyboard and mouse!!!
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