Mac mini has always made it easy to do the most amazing things. Now you can do everything up to 39% faster1 — Intel Core 2 Duo processors power the new Mac mini models. From Front Row to iLife ’08, Mac mini delivers more wows per second than ever before.
Two cores. Exceptional performance.
Based on Intel’s next-generation Core microarchitecture, the Intel Core 2 Duo offers a second-generation chip born of Intel’s new 65-nanometer process. That process lets Intel create incredibly small transistors — small enough, in fact, to fit a hundred inside a single human cell. With two powerful processors designed to share resources and circuitry so unimaginably small, Intel Core 2 Duo achieves far higher levels of performance while actually consuming less power.
64-bit.
With its 64-bit processor architecture, the Intel Core 2 Duo can manipulate data and execute instructions in chunks that are twice as large (64 bits versus 32 bits), delivering advanced computational power to Mac mini. That adds up to exceptional speed and agility, improved performance you’ll notice when working with photos in iPhoto or Aperture, creating Keynote presentations, editing video in iMovie, or playing Doom.
Speedy system architecture.
Augmenting the advanced Core 2 Duo processor is an equally advanced system architecture. It includes, for example, up to 4MB of shared L2 cache.2 That’s double the amount previously available, and it really lets Mac mini fire on all cylinders. With such substantial L2 cache, data instructions can be kept close to those two processor cores, greatly increasing performance and allowing the entire system to work more efficiently. And because the processors share the L2 cache, either of the processor cores can use the entire amount if the other core happens to be idle.
And let’s not forget the enhanced, 128-bit SSE3 vector engine that the Intel Core 2 Duo processor introduces to the Mac mini family. Able to handle 128-bit computations in a single clock cycle, the SSE3 vector engine accelerates data manipulation by simultaneously applying a single instruction to multiple data. That means you can get more done in less time. So, the next time you use iMovie or Final Cut Express to render effects, you can thank the SSE3 vector engine for the snappier performance.
- Testing conducted by Apple in July 2007 using preproduction Mac mini units with 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; all other systems were production units. Safari HTML Load Speed (cached) test, Java Script, and Java VM are a subset of the i-Bench 5.0 benchmark. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Mac mini.
- The 2.0GHz Mac mini has 4MB of L2 cache. The 1.83GHz model has 2MB of L2 cache.
- Memory available to Mac OS X may vary depending on graphics needs. Minimum graphics memory usage is 80MB, resulting in 944MB of system memory available on 1GB configurations.
