Mac mini: Apple.www.apple.com, Hardware, $499-$599 Just two inches tall and weighing 2.9 pounds, the Mac mini The smallest, lightest and least expensive Macintosh desktop computer. Housed in a case 6.5 x 6.5 x 2", it takes up hardly any space on the desktop, but is a full-fledged Mac with a built-in optical drive and remote control. The monitor, keyboard and mouse are extra cost items. desktop computer has either a 1.25 GHz or 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 processor and ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. Radeon 9200 graphics with 32MB of dedicated DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory memory. Both models come with a slot-load Combo drive for watching DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. movies and burning CDs, and up to an 80GB hard drive for storing digital media creations. A display, keyboard and mouse can be plugged into the Mac mini, which has a built-in 10/100BASE-T Ethernet and a 56K V.92 modem for Internet access. Mac OS X version 10.3 "Panther" is pre-installed. The computer also features iLife '05, an upgrade to Apple's suite of digital lifestyle applications; it contains major new versions of iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand, as well as the latest version of iTunes. CIRCLE #511 FOR INFORMATION [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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