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Mac Mini/2.53GHz

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4.0 out of 5 Mice, Nov 3, 2009

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Macworld's Mac Mini/2.53GHz Coverage

Mac mini (Late 2009) Just seven months after giving the Mac mini line its biggest update ever, Apple has bumped the performance of the company's smallest desktop computers. While the improvements are modest, the latest Mac minis address a few of our biggest criticisms of the Early 2009 models.
Mac Mini Core 2 Duo/2.53 GHz (Late 2009) This round of Mac mini updates offers comparatively minor improvements from the models introduced in the spring of 2009. The processors are faster, the hard drives are bigger, and the included Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics now take advantage of 256MB of shared memory.

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