I wanted a different case that was between a mini and the tower I have.
Cinebench Open GL tests on the 15-inch 2.6GHz Core i7 Retina MacBook Pro with 500GB flash storage and 8GB of RAM were 70 percent faster than the BTO Mac mini. I had 3 Corsair 2GB XMS3 RAM sticks and I didn’t want them to go to waste so having a mobo with 4 RAM slots instead of only 2 made sense (I was originally going to build my daughter a hack mini with the exact specs from tonymac). And the Mac mini’s GPU was totally overwhelmed by the graphics performance of the 15-inch Retina display MacBook Pros and their discreet nVidia GeForce GT 650M graphics with 1GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory. The BTO Mac mini failed to beat the 2011 high-end Mac mini in Portal 2 and Cinebench Open GL tests.
The scores would’ve been even higher had Apple offered a discreet graphics upgrade alternative to the capable-if somewhat lackluster-Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics. Uncompress 6GB Folder Mac mini/2.6GHz quad-core Core i7, 16GB RAM, 1TB Fusion Drive BTO (Late 2012) 41.1: 283.1: 42.5: Mac mini/2.3GHz Core i7 (Late 2012) 138: 323: 130.5: Mac mini/2.5GHz Core i5. That makes sense, seeing how the high-end 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro has the same 2.6GHz quad-core Core i7 processor as the BTO Mac mini and uses flash storage instead of standard rotational hard drives. The BTO Mac mini’s combination of extra RAM, a speedy SSD, and a quad-core Core i7 processor was so good, its performance earned a Speedmark 8 score just below the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pros. As you can see, our benchmark tests bear that out. (A Fusion Drive is not Apple’s special implementation of a hybrid drive, which houses a SSD and a hard drive in one mechanism.) Data is written to the SSD first, so the idea is that you get SSD speeds but with the capacity of standard hard drives.
Fusion Drive gives you the best of both worlds by bringing together a separate 120GB SSD and 1TB hard drive and presenting them to both the user and applications as a single drive. SSDs are fast as all get out, but they have very limited capacity and they cost a lot more than traditional drives. I’ll dig deeper into the Fusion Drive in my next article, but in brief, Fusion Drive is Apple’s answer to the high-price-per-gigabyte problem of solid-state drives. The BTO Mac mini’s PCMark productivity test score (using VMWare Fusion) was three times higher than the high-end standard configuration’s score. The standard configuration $799 Mac mini with its 5400-rpm hard drive took more than three times as long to complete our copy file and uncompress file tests as the Fusion Drive did in the BTO Mac mini. *All delivery times are estimated unless stated.But it was the Fusion Drive that really kicked the BTO Mac mini into overdrive. Our warehouse reserves the right to upgrade the delivery method you select on your order.ĭon't see your country listed below? Contact us for a shipping quote. If the next available weekday is a UK bank holiday/public holiday then your order will be despatched on the next available working day. For example if an order was despatched on a working Wednesday by 3pm, the first available working day for delivery would be Thursday provided you placed your order by 3pm on the Wednesday. It has two memory sockets which can be upgraded to 16GBs maximum memory using two 8GB PC3-12800 SODIMMs. NOTE: The Late 2012 Mac Mini is built with an Intel Core i7 Processor with Turbo Boost and has a Thunderbolt Port and four USB3.0 ports.
We pass this information onto you, the customer.ĭespatch times do not apply to UK public holidays.Įstimated delivery times are taken from the next available working day available for delivery. Specs: Year: Late 2012 CPU: Quad Core 2.3GHz Intel Core i5-3615QM Processor, Up to 3.3GHz Storage: 1TB Hard Drive Storage: 256GB Solid State (Flash) Drive RAM: 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 Graphics: Intel HD 4000 w/ 1.5GB VRAM Mac OS Support: 10.8.1 'Mountain Lion' - 10.15 'Catalina' Connectivity: 4x USB 2. Apple Mac Mini 6,2 (Late 2012) MD388LL/A Memory Specs. £26.00 + vat (£31.20) Compatible Internal Hard Drives & SSDs for this Mac. External USB 2.0 CD/DVD-RW Drive - Bus Powered - In Stock. £10.00 + vat (£12.00) Compatible External Optical Drives for this Mac.
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