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Seen September 22nd, 2007
Posted June 18th, 2006
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18 Years
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0509macmini2.html

One week after Think Secret first brought word of pending Mac mini revision, the new models have started arriving.

One source reported receiving a 1.5GHz Mac mini Tuesday, although the box still featured the old 1.42GHz label.

The new Mac mini is designated PowerMac10,2 following the previous model's PowerMac10,1 designation. It also features an updated Boot ROM version, 4.9.4f0 from 4.8.9f4.

The SuperDrive equipped Mac mini features a new 8x dual-layer SuperDrive from Matmuka (Panasonic). The drive is specified as model UJ-845, although Matsumuka only offers a UJ-845-B drive. According to the company's product page, the UJ-845-B supports 5x DVD-RAM burning along with 8x DVD+/-R support, 4x DVD+/-RW support, and 24x CD-R Support. DVD-RAM support is not enabled on the Apple drive, however.

The Mac mini's graphics card remains an ATI Radeon 9200 but now features double the VRAM at 64MB. The video card remains incapable of supporting Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's Core Image technology. The hard drives have also been upgraded to 5,400-rpm models, as previously noted.

Lastly, the new Mac mini features Bluetooth 2.0+EDR support, as noted in our original report. The Bluetooth software is version 1.6.3f2 (the previous Mac mini used 1.6.0f2) with firmware version 3.1965 (previously 2.1586).
Anybody else think that Apple should have announced this? It would have probably driven sales through the roof. Heck, this upgrade is making me want one, though I really can't afford it.
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