Mac Mini is a desktop computer released by Apple Inc its basically characteristic being that it is a little too small for a desktop computer, measuring only 16,5 centimeters square and 5,1 centimeters tall. It have only 1,31 kilograms and it have an external power supply, that measure a 3rd of the size of the whole device.
This Mac Mini is the 1st MacIntosh product which don't include a mouse or a keyboard. It is designed for those who already have a monitor and other customers.
Upgraded in October, 2005, the Mac Mini have a 1, 33 GHz or a 1,5 GHz processor PowerPC G4, an ATI Radeon 9200 graphic processor with 32 megabytes or 64 megabytes DDR SDRAM memory. The hard -drive, same as the elder models is an Ultra ATA of 40 or 80 GB that runs to 4200 rotations per minute. The memory is expandable to 1GB, but it is available in a one RAM slot with 256 MB SDRAM. The Air Port can be optional or integrated as a an IEEE 802.11.
The optical drive available for the current model of Mac Mini can read DVDs at 8x speed, CD-R at 16x and have the combo drive function. The minimum operating system required it is Mac OS X v 10.4.2, named also the Mac OS X Tiger, which is the 5th major release of Apple's operating system for Macintosh.
Dimensions are the same at the both models, the elder one and the previous, and are 50.8 x 165.1 x 165.1 millimeters.
The last Mac Mini model can function with several operating systems designed for the architecture of Power PC. Any user can easy install the Debian Linux, but without the benefit of Adobe Flash because Adobe systems didn't developed a version for this environment.
Even if it has been entirely removed from the design of Mac Mini, modem designed by Apple is also available only that now it is external and USB based and costs almost 35 liras.
Although the design of a Mac Mini is entirely handled by Apple, some of the components are planed and directed by Sparkfactor Design. First generation of this product included a built-in iPod dock slot connector in its top but this feature was excluded at the initial release.
The iMac it is an Apple line released as a variety of MacIntosh desktop computers, which have the quality of being the principal part of Apple's consumer desktop contribution since they resigned this product into the profile market. It suffered, among the time, 4 big upgrades and evolved not only at the quality and the used technology but also at the exterior design. The actual model it is now thinner, even if it have the same shapes and forms a the elder iMac models. It also have an aluminum case and a black bordered glass for its display, and you can see a single screw on the entire body, which represents the slot access to the internal memory. The back is made from a solid material ant it is no longer removable.
The Aluminum iMac comes with an LCD as display, available in 4 dimensions: 20", 21.5, 24"or 27". It have an included hard disk with 2 optional capacities of 259 gigabytes or 2 terra bytes and a Super Drive with a 8x capacity of re- writing.
The elder model had an 1,83 GHz Core Duo processor with 2 MB on-chip L2 cache, unlike the more youthful model that is an 1,83 GHz T5600 Core 2 Duo available for the low- end 17" only, or a 2.0 GHz T7200 available for the high- end 17". Optional, you can also choose a 2,16 GHz processor or a 2,33 GHz for the 20 inch and the 24 inch models.
Since the release date, August 7, 2007, it used the Mac OS x v 10.4, now being available also with the immediately following version, the v10.6.
The initial model of iMac was the first released Macintosh that included an USB port, but being the only interface for peripheral built in it. The unexpected success and popularity of this product helped the introduction of this interface among all the computer's industry.
Using this port, producers of peripherals could make products able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination with both Macs and PCs.
