MacPrices Review: 2010 2.4GHz Mac mini

Apple resolved recent speculation about the Mac Mini’s prospects for the near–term future in June 2010, opting to go with a 2.4GHz ‘Penryn’ family Core 2 Duo with 3MB L2 cache (there’s a 2.66GHz CPU build-to-order option) running a 1066Mhz frontside bus, and an NVIDIA GeForce 320M integrated graphics chipset that annexes up to 256MB of system memory, bringing the mini essentially up to par with the 13 inch MacBook and MacBook Pro rather than using the latest Intel Core “i” silicon. The new Core “i” CPUs are significantly faster than the Core 2 Duo family, but alas, Intel has thus far balked at licensing NVIDIA to produce integrated graphics chipsets to support this new generation of processors, so going that route would’ve mandated using less–powerful Intel GPU hardware. Read More…