The Mac mini’s performance peak has been eroded by striking any quad-core processors from the list and system memory follows Apple’s new trend of being soldered to the logic board and cannot therefore ever be upgraded at a later date. Grabbing attention in this revision is the price drop of the entry-level model, from 2012’s £499 to a new low of £399. The new Mac mini (Late 2014) is built around exactly the same cool and understated ingot of aluminium, milled from solid into a perfect round-cornered square of 21st century computing. For storage it had plenty, either a 500 or 1000 GB hard disk or optionally could be configured with a 1 TB Fusion Drive or 256 GB Flash Drive. It came with 4 GB of memory which could be upgraded up to 16 GB in seconds through a spin-off hatch on the underside. Its Ivy Bridge-generation Intel Core processor was still an efficient chip that helped secure the Mac mini as one of the most power-sipping PCs on the planet. The 2012 Mac mini may have looked a little over-ripe in computer years but it also didn’t need much to improve it. Also read our Mac mini (Late 2014) 2.8GHz review.īut we say ‘arguably’ advisedly. Of all those products it was arguably the Mac mini that was most in need of the attention, since it hadn’t been looked at by the running-upgrades department in two long years.
Unveiled then were an iPad Air 2, iMac with Retina 5K display. Not our words but Apple’s, printed on the invitations to a product launch event in October this year.
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