Product Description

The Mac Mini features the powerful 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It has two cores, so it's like having two 1.83GHz processors in one! Another great feature is the suite of applications in iLife '08. A full-featured collection of programs that are designed to let you easily take control of your creative projects. iPhoto organizes your digital pics, and has a cool feature that groups them by event. iWeb makes it easy to create your own website. iMovie & iDVD lets you edit your videos and make your own DVD movies. GarageBand gives you the tools to make your own music, and even start your own virtual band! All of this and more is packed inside a svelt and stylish 6.5" body that can fit anywhere! 2 RAM Slots (occupied) 80GB 5400RPM SATA HDD Slot-loading DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo Drive - reads DVDs up to 8x, writes CD-Rs up to 24x, & writes CD-RWs up to 16x Intel GMA 950 Graphics Processor with 64MB of shared memory (memory is shared with the main system) Ports - 1 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet, 1 Firewire 400 (8 watts), 4 USB 2.0, 1 DVI Out, 1 VGA Out (using included adapter) Built-in Speakers Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi 802.11g wireless network card Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) module Unit Dimensions - 2 (h) x 6.5 (w) x 6.5 (d) Unit Weight - 2.9 lbs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30 in Personal Computers
• Brand: Apple
• Model: MB138LL/A
• Released on: 2007-08-08
• Dimensions: 10.00 pounds
• CPU: Intel Core Duo 1.83 GHz
• Memory: 1000MB DDR2 SDRAM
• Hard Disk: 80GB
• Processors: 2

Features

• 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 667 MHz system bus
• 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM (expandable to 2 GB), 80 GB SATA hard drive, and slot-loading slot-loading Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
• One FireWire 400 port (8 watts); four USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps); DVI output; VGA output (using included adapter); S-video and composite video output
• Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit), built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi (802.11g)3; built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) module
• Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, iLife '08, and Front Row software included

Amazon.com Product Description
A great choice for home computing tasks and creating a digital media hub, Apple's Mac mini desktop PC combines design simplicity with powerful computing resources. Nicely compact at just 6.5 inches square and 2 inches high, the Mac mini offers an affordable avenue to dual-core processing power via the 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and Apple's latest suite of digital media applications--iLife '08. It also comes with the Apple Remote and Front Row media display software, which enables you to easily play your music, enjoy photo slideshows, and watch DVDs, iMovies, music videos and television shows from across the room.

Inside its 2-inch-tall, 6.5-inch-square anodized aluminum enclosure, the Mac mini houses the fast Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

This Mac mini also features 1 GB of installed RAM (with a 2 GB maximum capacity), 80 GB hard drive, a combo DVD-RAM/CD-RW drive for watching DVD movie discs and burning your own mixes to CD, Gigabit Ethernet wired networking and 802.11b/g wireless LAN, and the Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard operating system. You'll have to supply your own keyboard, mouse, and display.

Preinstalled with iLife '08
Every Mac mini includes iLife '08, the latest version of Apple's award-winning suite of digital media applications, with major upgrades to iPhoto, iDVD, iWeb, and GarageBand and a completely reinvented iMovie. iPhoto '08 now automatically organizes photo libraries into Events that let you more easily manage your growing photo collections, and iMovie '08 can import video from the latest AVCHD, HDV and DV camcorders, as well as from digital cameras, and displays your entire video library whether it's stored on internal or external drives. Both iPhoto and iMovie integrate seamlessly with the new .Mac Web Gallery, Apple's new service for .Mac members to instantly create and host websites for their photos and videos.

The pre-installed iLife '08 software suite includes a completely redesigned iMovie, which makes it even easier to share your videos on the Internet.

iLife '08 also features iWeb '08, with live web widgets such as Google Maps that let you create even more dynamic websites, and GarageBand '08, with its new Magic GarageBand feature that makes it fun and easy for both musicians and non-musicians to create great sounding songs.

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
The Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 processor has a 1.83 GHz processor speed, fast 667 MHz front-side bus (FSB), and large 2 MB L2 cache. (An L2, or secondary, cache temporarily stores data; and a larger L2 cache can help speed up your system's performance. The FSB carries data between the CPU and RAM, and a faster front-side bus will deliver better overall performance.)

The Intel Core 2 Duo's 128-bit SSE3 vector engine handles 128-bit computations in a single clock cycle, accelerating data manipulation by simultaneously applying a single instruction to multiple data. And its two execution cores are designed to share resources and conserve power, helping it to achieve higher levels of performance since it uses fewer watts.

Wired and Wireless Connectivity

The small form of the Mac mini features several ports for a variety of different devices.

The Mac mini gives you plenty of room to grow with four USB 2.0 ports on the back--for connecting devices such as cameras, iPod, printer, camcorder, or keyboard--as well as a FireWire 400 port, which enables super-fast connectivity to hard drives as well as digital video camcorders. Share files around your house with built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet as well as 54g Wi-Fi (802.11b/g). The integrated Bluetooth wireless connectivity--version 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR)--allows you to use a wireless keyboard or mouse, and synchronize peripherals such as cell phones and PDAs. Enjoy high-quality sound on almost any speaker system with double-duty analog/digital audio. Record digital and analog sources through audio line in, perfect for your latest podcast in GarageBand.

Graphics and Video
The Mac mini has a DVI video output that supports digital resolutions up to 1920 by 1200 pixels and is compatible with the 20-inch Apple Cinema Display and 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display. It also supports coherent digital displays up to 154 MHz, and non-coherent digital displays up to 135 MHz. Using the included VGA video adapter, you can connect to analog displays at a resolution up to 1920 by 1080 pixels. Video is powered by the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, which uses Intel Dynamic Video Memory Technology (DVMT) and provides up to 64 MB of shared video memory.

Other Features

• 1 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300) on two SO-DIMM with a 2 GB maximum capacity
• Slot-loading Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW): reads DVDs at up to 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 16x speed, and reads CDs at up to 24x speed
• Built-in speaker
• Meets ENERGY STAR requirements with maximum continuous power of 110 watts

Included Software
Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard operating system (includes Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat AV, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Xcode Developer Tools); iLife '08 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand); Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive; iWork (30-day trial); and Front Row

What's in the Box
Mac mini, Apple Remote, power cord, install/restore DVDs, printed and electronic documentation

Customer Reviews

Staying MINI with the MINI
hey folks. hope this inspires you in case you had not thought of this before.

it has now been nearly two years (02-2007) since this diminutive beauty has been attached to a samsung lcd tv in the bedroom with the included dvi connector. since i already had an urban rebounder trampoline in the bedroom :o) and have enjoyed fun aerobic "bouncing" and working out on it since 2005, the idea came after many months of using the mac mini for pretty much e-mail, web surfing, online banking, and other quick application uses/etc. {i.e., no longer lugging a laptop into the bedroom area for these purposes}.

this baby is now used for FREE www.youtu___.com music and exercise video sessions. there will never again be a need to purchase those workout dvds we tend to use 3-4x [right, folks???], only for them to become expensive paperweights. i simply go to the website and watch all those wild music videos [e.g., for the last several weeks, i have been playing Beyoncé's "single ladies" vid dozens of times over 'til i nearly pass out from physical exertion...in a good way :o) ]. other times i opt for, you may or may not know, the extensive collection of ab workouts along with stretching, toning---you name it, you can probably find it---and ALL free and looking beautiful on a widescreen.

i hope if you are reading this, you are inspired in the new year to try something different with your exercise routine -- or to, @ least, begin one. this product has allowed us to take these activities to a totally new level. coupled with a wireless keyboard/mouse, this was a true no-brainer purchase in every sense.

in closing, for those of you who have both macs and pcs, SURELY you have also realized the added benefit of how quickly macs boot up and allow you to start WORKING. this mini {from turning it on to clicking on the "mentioned" website above} TAKES ABOUT 22 SECONDS, whereas my pcs {xp/vista} usually do not even allow clicking on an icon to smoothly open an app until almost TWO MINUTES. AND, unlike my pcs, the macs have NEVER crashed...EVER [(cough) can you say vertical integration???]. so, overall, even though i paid a lot more two years ago for this mac mini, it was well worth it and there is no longer an excuse to NOT work out AND stay healthy since it is attached to a BEDROOM tv.

take care, everyone, and Here's to Your Health!

Awesome little pc
I can't believe how I suffered struggling to use Vista. This machine does everything I need far easier than Vista could ever hope to. And it is whisper quiet. I had to bump the RAM to 2GB which is the only thing that stops me from giving it 5 stars. Make the switch to the Mac and OSX and you won't be sorry.

A Better System But a Bit Pricey
I like the Mac OS. It seems to provide an answer to the security issues in Windows. I've had nothing but problems trying to make anti-Virus software work without being a major annoyance a lot of the time. Plus the updates get expensive. So Mac solves that.

The downside is that some of my software won't work. I could run Win on the Mac, but that seems idiotic if you keep some Win machines.

Overall, the machine works very smoothly. The iTunes is a lot more refined that Windows Media Player, which is overloaded with things. It seems to get the job done, organizing and playing music, creating playlists. The photo program, iPhoto, is OK. It's not enough for serious post processing, the the slideshow is nice, and the Ken Burns effect is useful. I might buy Aperture or Elements, but so far the iPhoto is OK as an organizer.

I run the new Open Office on Mac. It is fine, though somtimes the keystrokes seem to get lost in endless tiny reformattings of the text. I think for free software, Open Office is great and it goes from Mac to Ubuntu to Win.

So yes, Mac is simpler, more refined, and less of a pain. I might slowly migrate to the Mac OS, but I hope Windows solves some of the problems and I can use both. The basic Mini has tiny hard drive and not much memory. I really don't need to archive every photo and song I have on every drive. I can hook up a USB drive. I may get a 320MB self-powered drive for this machine, a USB pocket drive.

I might be able to get by with Ubuntu, but I've noticed a few glitches. It is simple and the package includes a nice music player and the Open Office stuff. Between Vista, Ubuntu and Leopard, I'll take the big cat. I hope the Mac systems remain isolated from malware and all the rubbish that infects Win, without the overhead of AV and other layers like complex firewalls. I really hope.