Mid-2010 Mac mini teardown is complete
Apple’s new entry-level headless desktop spartanly beautiful on the outside and, unsurprisingly, the same visually simple design esthete can be found on the inside, where you’ll find a surprisingly few screws and components to misalign or lose. Another exquisite example of the mothership’s “less is more” philosophy.
There’s a new Apple product on the streets, so that means the boys at iFixIt have been making busy with their screwdrivers and spudgers. And, just a few days later, they’re published the mid-2010 Mac mini tear down.
Hidden amongst those seemingly few components is a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 320M graphics processor, 2GB processor, 320GB, SuperDrive and cooling fan, all of which reside on or connect to that hyper small motherboard. Yup, there’s a power supply in there, too.
Also, of note is the new Mac mini’s memory is user upgradeable, something that was pretty difficult in previous models.
Of course, the one feature that has everyone talking, the integrated HDMI port, will finally make the Mac mini welcome, right out of the box, in the living room.
Additionally, a lot of people have questioned why Apple put the SD card slot on the back of the unit — it seems and perhaps is a bassakward choice. However, once you’ve fiddled with it once or twice, I expect it will become a natural motion, like finding the power button (I can feel some of you cringing).
What features or omissions got your attention?
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June 17th, 2010
One question… does the space allocated for the HDD appear to be large enough to allow for a 13MM drive or only 9MM drives? It would make the hassle worthwhile to get a 7200rpm 1TB drive into that baby someday. But if we are limited to 9mm form factor that makes it less exciting.