Mac mini

Live the digital life in stylish simplicity — up to 39% faster.¹ Just 6.5 inches square and 2 inches small, Mac mini lets you have more fun with your music, photos, and movies, more quickly and more easily. Enjoy them up close or far away with the included Apple Remote. The most affordable way to Intel Core 2 Duo, iLife ’08, and Front Row starts at $599.

Power has never been this economical.

Mac mini makes it easy and affordable to work with digital photos, movies, music, and the web. And now it all happens with the blazing speed of the Intel Core 2 Duo. Delivering unprecedented power in such a small package, the Mac mini runs up to 39% faster than previously. Coupled with the world’s most advanced operating system, Mac OS X, Mac mini runs all your modern and innovative software, speedily.

Your digital life starts here.

Mac mini comes with iLife ’08, a suite of easy-to-use applications that make it easy to make amazing things. Enhance, organize, and share your photos via iPhoto. Create calendars, books, and cards. Make an epic starring your kids in iMovie. Turn your photo and movie creations into professional DVDs with iDVD. Create original music in GarageBand, even if you can’t carry a tune. Make podcasts and blogs. Then publish them online via MobileMe and iWeb.² You’ll be amazed at how quickly, easily, and beautifully you can share your digital life.

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The full-screen Front Row media experience — with its intuitive menus, large text, and brilliant graphics — lets you browse the music, photos, and videos on your Mac mini as easily as you browse music on your iPod. The included Apple Remote lets you enjoy your media from anywhere in the room, from your desk chair to favorite sofa. Front Row and Mac mini can even play music, photos, and videos saved on other computers in the house, thanks to Bonjour instant networking.³ So gather your friends and dazzle them with a slideshow of your vacation pics, a home movie, your latest playlist, or a DVD.

More Mac per square inch.

Inside its petite 2-inch-tall, 6.5-inch-square anodized aluminum enclosure, Mac mini houses the fast Intel Core 2 Duo processor, an 80GB or 120GB hard drive, a slot-loading Combo drive or SuperDrive, as well as built-in wireless — all whisper-quiet. This modular design lets you upgrade your current system to the elegance, simplicity, and reliability of Macintosh without a lot of extra expense. BYODKM: Bring your own display, keyboard, and mouse (or buy new ones). Either way you’ll be up and running in minutes.

Mac mini also gives you plenty of room to grow. Simply connect your digital devices, such as cameras, iPod, printer, camcorder, or keyboard, to the Mac mini over USB 2.0 or FireWire. Share files around your house at blazing speeds with built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet. 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. Mac mini gives you the built-in amenities you need to enjoy the digital lifestyle.

1. Performance based on common application tasks in iPhoto ’08. Testing conducted by Apple in July 2007 using preproduction Mac mini units with 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; all other systems were production units. Safari HTML Load Speed (cached) test, Java Script, and Java VM are a subset of the i-Bench 5.0 benchmark. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Mac mini.
2. Some features require MobileMe. The MobileMe service is available to persons age 13 and older. Annual membership fee and Internet access required. Terms and conditions apply.
3. Sharing photos requires a Mac with iPhoto. Sharing music and videos requires iTunes 6.0.4 or later.
4. Some options must be installed by Apple at the factory; the rest can be added in-store at an Apple Retail Store or an Apple authorized reseller.