apple Mac mini
(Thunderbolt)
$799 list
l l l l h
PrOs Super compact design.
Aluminum unibody construction.
SD slot supports SDXC
cards. Included HDMI-to-DVI
adapter and HDMI port. Internal
power supply. Thunderbolt
interface. Second generation
Core i5 processor. 3D performance
rivals a tower PC.
CONs Hard drive is hard to
upgrade. Thunderbolt peripherals
are scarce. Lack of optical
drive complicates some
installs.
IPads and iPhones seem to get all the attention these days, but let’s not forget the sustaining power and importance of the Mac. For serious work or for watching a movie on a big screen with the family, the Mac is your go-to device, and the Mac mini (Thunderbolt), Apple’s compact desktop PC, has the power to do it all in an extremely small package. The new Mac mini offers a Thunderbolt port, second-generation Intel Core i5 processor and new AMD discrete graphics. It is as powerful as a tower PC and can serve as the primary PC in your house, while also serving as a great base station for your iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Designwise, this version of the Mac mini has the same unibody aluminum chassis as its predecessor, with one glaring difference: There is no longer a slot-loading optical drive. Basically, it’s as if Apple is saying “We gave you the iTunes Store, Safari, and the Mac App store online, why would you need an optical drive?” Just like the original iMac dropped the then-prominent floppy drive from its desktops, the Mac mini (Thunderbolt) puts a stake in the ground and declares that you don’t need an optical drive anymore.
The mini’s new Thunderbolt port uses Intel’s new interface (think of it as external PCIe), so you can hook up multiple monitors, hard drives, and other interfaces like USB 3.0 or eSATA. In practice, the only Thunderbolt peripherals that you can order are the Promise Pegasus R6 RAID array and the upcoming Apple Thunderbolt Display (27- inch). Hopefully, we’ll see more Thunderbolt peripherals before the end of the year. The desktop comes with a few extras on the hard drive, including the iLife Suite (iPhoto, iMovie, etc.) in addition to the new Mac OS X Lion operating system. With its Intel Core i5-2520M processor and AMD Radeon HD 6630M discrete graphics, the mini was certainly powerful enough to run all our benchmark tests well, including the 3D games. It completed our Handbrake video in a quick 1 minute 42 seconds in Windows and 2:23 in Mac OS. The system also finished the Photoshop CS5 test in 3:47 in Windows and 5:10 in Mac OS. The mini’s only rival in this price range is the Asus Essentio CM6850-07, a full tower, which was faster than the Mac mini (Thunderbolt) on benchmark tests like Handbrake, CS5, and PCMark Vantage, attributable to the Asus CM6850-07’s faster 7,200 rpm hard drive (the Mac mini has a 5,400rpm drive). The Mac mini (Thunderbolt) blew away the Dell Inspiron Zino HD (Inspiron 410) on the same tests. The Mac mini is cheaper, more powerful and more capable overall than the Dell Zino HD, and for these reasons, it unseats the Zino HD as the new Editors’ Choice for compact PCs.—Joel Santo Domingo
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