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Mac mini quad core i7 2012 Bluetooth#
If you’re considering whether to buy the entry-level or the higher-end model, our Speedmark 8 results show that the $799 model was 25 percent faster overall, with the biggest gains being in MathematicaMark and Cinebench CPU, which were 78 percent and 53 percent faster, respectively, than the new $599 Mac mini.This Apple Mac mini 2012 features a 22-nm Quad Core “Ivy Bridge” 2.3 GHz Intel “Core i7” (3615QM) with four independent processor “cores” on a single chip, a 6 MB shared level 3 cache, 8 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (PC3-12800) memory, a 1 TB hard drive, and Intel HD Graphics 4000 share the system memory.Ĭonnectivity for this Apple Mac mini 2012 includes 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 4.0, Firewire “800” port, four USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, Thunderbolt, combined “audio line in (digital/analog)” and combined “audio line out/headphone (digital/analog)” minijacks, a 10/100/1000Base-T port, 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, and an SDXC card slot. On the other hand, the previous high-end model, with its discreet AMD Radeon HD 6630M graphics, was faster on GPU-intensive tests, like Portal 2 (9 percent more frames per second) and Cinebench OpenGL (24 percent more frames per second).
MathematicaMark was 78 percent faster on the new system, Cinebench CPU tests took 53 percent less time to complete, and HandBrake was 24 percent faster than the old model.
The older system took nearly three times as long to complete our Photoshop action script.Īs you’d expect, processor-intensive tests that can use all four cores (and eight virtual cores, thanks to the Core i7’s Hyper Threading technology) showed the new high-end Mac mini to be much faster than the 2011 high-end Mac mini with a dual-core 2.5GHz Core i5 processor. The 2012 Mac mini was 68 percent faster and finished the Cinebench CPU test in half the time of the 2010 model. We also looked at the performance differences between the new low-end model and a mid-2010 entry-level Mac mini with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor. I would suggest trying to track down a 'Late 2012' Mac mini rather than buying a new 'Late 2014' Mac mini. The 2012 best Mac mini (2.6 GHz Intel Core i7) scored 3308 points single-core. All things considered, if youre looking for great multi-core performance in a mini (say if youre using your Mac mini as a server), I have a hard time recommending the new Mac mini. The new Intel HD Graphics 4000 helped the 2012 low-end Mac mini beat last year’s system by 60 percent in the Cinebench OpenGL test and by 27 percent in Portal 2. Apple Mac Mini 2012 Quad Core i7 2. In those tests the new best Mac mini scored 3363 points in single-core mode, and 7208 points in multi-core mode. In our testing, we found the new $599 Mac mini to be 31 percent faster overall than its predecessor.