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PC World‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Mac mini remains an impressive feat of hardware engineering and design, fitting decent computing power and a solid set of features in a tiny package. And apart from the slow stock hard drive, there’s not much to complain about with the latest model—this is as full-featured a computer I’ve seen in a package this small, and the new enclosure looks great and is built like a tank. As with last year’s models, the new mini makes for a great starter or switcher Mac, and it’s a solid upgrade for those looking to replace an aging Mac. In addition, the new HDMI output makes the mini even more appealing as part of a home-entertainment system, and the improved graphics chip helps the mini perform well enough to enjoy most games.

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Jun 23, 2010

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AnandTech‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The pricing is by far the biggest issue here. Even with an upgrade to 4GB, the Mac mini is still the cheapest way to legally get a machine with OS X. Although the mini is fast enough, I would've liked to have a Core i5 in there instead of the aging Core 2 Duo. Apple insists on putting more dollars towards GPUs than traditional PC vendors, presumably for some major application rollout in the coming years with hefty GPU requirements. With no DMI/QPI enabled NVIDIA chipsets, Apple is either going to have to increase the physical size of many of its products to transition to newer Intel CPUs with 3rd party GPUs or live with Intel/AMD integrated graphics going forward. I'm very curious to see how this plays out over the next 12 - 18 months.

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Aug 09, 2010

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reghardware‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Allowing for the fact that it's a full 64-bit machine with a terabyte of storage and can take 8GB of RAM, there is no other machine in the world to compare with the minuscule size, noise and power drain of the Mac Mini server. It's smaller and quieter than most two-drive NAS boxes, and if you daisy-chained a few external Firewire drives onto it, it would rival the four- and five-bay NAS devices, too. It's discreet, elegant, amazingly versatile and you'll never need to buy a client access licence again.

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Nov 30, 2010

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expertreviews‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Apple's Mac Mini is small, quiet and power-efficient, but it's expensive and you have to sacrifice performance and expandability for its compactness.

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Dec 03, 2010

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expertreviews‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The latest Mac Mini is a sleek and very well built mini PC, but it's underspecified and overpriced.

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Aug 20, 2010

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ITreviews‘s review Edit Like Unlike

By cramming in extra hardware and tweaking the OS, Apple has managed the seemingly impossible, turning its tiny Mac mini into a respectable small business server, complete with file and print sharing, email, web, wiki and blogging tools. It works best in a Mac environment but Windows support is there if needed and, if you stick to the basics, it's very easy to manage. On the downside, Windows-based servers offer more functionality, but can work out a lot more expensive, Apple's Mac mini shipping with an unlimited user licence, so once you've bought it there's no more to pay.

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Aug 25, 2010

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PC Pro‘s review Edit Like Unlike

To upgrade the Mac mini to the state where businesses should depend on it, though, you'll need to upgrade the warranty. As standard you receive a one-year, return-to-base warranty; for an extra £110 exc VAT, that's upgraded to three years' cover and on-site repair. The price lifts to £900 exc VAT, and that leads to the Mac mini's biggest problem: it's expensive compared to the entry-level servers on offer from the likes of Dell and HP.

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Oct 11, 2010

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TechRadar UK‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Small offices might consider cloud services such as Google Docs or Dropbox an alternative, but with the Mac mini you know exactly where your files are.

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Sep 27, 2010

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Macworld‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server is an outstanding small utility server for the lower end of the SMB market, able to handle a couple hundred users for almost any single service, (Mail, Chat, Open Directory, etc.) with aplomb. It’s also a good “do it all” server for smaller networks with up to 25 users or so. It does all this without needing a lot of power, cooling, or being overly noisy.

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Aug 11, 2010

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reghardware‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The design of the new Mac Mini speaks for itself – it makes most ‘small form-factor’ PCs look like bloated heaps of junk. The long-overdue addition of HDMI finally acknowledges the Mini's media centre credentials, while the improved graphics performance means that it can handle HD video with ease, and manage some decent gaming action too. But the price is high.

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Jun 18, 2010

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Engadget‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The new Mac mini is a raging success - it's one of the most perfectly-executed small PCs we've ever encountered, and it can indeed hook up to almost anything and accomplish nearly any task. If you've got $700 and you need a small Mac, you're going to be pretty happy with a Mac mini.

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Jun 18, 2010

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Macworld‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Mac mini remains an impressive feat of hardware engineering and design, fitting decent computing power and a solid set of features in a tiny package. And apart from the slow stock hard drive, there’s not much to complain about with the latest model - this is as full-featured a computer I’ve seen in a package this small, and the new enclosure looks great and is built like a tank.

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Jun 23, 2010

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PC Advisor‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The next-generation Apple Mac mini represents the most significant upgrade of the starter Apple Macintosh since its inception. The changes to size and shape are welcome, as are the connectivity upgrades. We'll update this review with details of performance benchmarks when we have them.

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Jun 16, 2010

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TechRadar UK‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Mac mini is a brilliantly-designed machine, but is struggling to find its niche.We hope with the next generation, Apple stops worrying about its impact on other, very different products and allows the small form factor Mac to achieve its true potential, both as an entry-level Mac for switchers and a full-on media machine for enthusiasts.

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Jul 07, 2010

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SlashGear‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Still, we’re big fans of the Mac mini in its current form. Yes, the price has seen a roughly $100 boost over the last-gen model, but if you consider a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter is currently around $35, plus the CPU and GPU boost, and throw in the SDXC card reader too, that doesn’t sound like too bad a deal to us. At $699 we’d certainly pick it over the white entry-level MacBook for home use, and it would make for an ideal family PC in the living room: showing multimedia content one minute, browsing the internet the next. If you’ve already amassed a huge Blu-ray collection

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Jun 18, 2010

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CNET Reviews‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Apple's new Mac Mini includes an elegant new design and some long asked-for features, including HDMI output and user-accessible memory. The system still faces a value challenge for its given specs, but Apple has done enough to improve the Mac Mini's appeal for Apple loyalists and design fans looking for a living room computer.

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Jun 15, 2010

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PC Pro‘s review Edit Like Unlike

We’re puzzled, because it’s not obvious why the price is so high. On paper it looks like it ought to be possible to sell the Mac mini for half the price. Indeed, if Apple could do that, it would have an attractive system on its hands, not desperately powerful but cute and versatile.

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Jun 22, 2010

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Pocket-lint‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Overall the Mac mini wins a lot of points for the design. You'd be hard pressed to find any desktop computer that looks as elegant as this. But at the same time you are paying for that design statement. You can get a more powerful Windows PC unit for a fraction of the price, but that's not the point. You buy the Mac mini because you want Mac OSX.

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Jun 22, 2010

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www.trustedreviews.com‘s review Edit Like Unlike

In essence the new Mac mini is an excellent update, with the revamped design and new features bringing tangible benefits. Unfortunately such strides are hampered by Apple's usual mark-ups, which make the mini a far less convincing proposition.

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Jun 24, 2010

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PC Magazine‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Apple Mac mini (HDMI) is an all-around improvement with a new unibody aluminum chassis to match the rest of the Macintosh line. The mini is the mainstream, compact PC you've been searching for, and it defines its category.

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Jun 16, 2010

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