Who makes the mac mini computer?
Apple on Tuesday outlined a refresh of its iMac, Mac Pro and Mac mini lineups and the headliners are the Intel Nehalem-based Mac Pro and the iMac 24-inch update. However, perusing the updates you have to wonder if the Mac mini is irrelevant. Sources: The Mac Mini (trademarked as Mac mini) is a desktop computer made by Apple Inc. Like earlier Mini-ITX PC designs, it is uncommonly small for a desktop computer: 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) square and 2 inches (5.1 cm) tall. It weighs 2.9 pounds (1.31 kg) and its external power supply is roughly one third of the size of the computer itself.
This story has been updated with new pictures of Intel’s Mac mini look-alike PC, taken on Tuesday at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. Click on the thumbnail below. TAIPEI, Taiwan — A new Wintel prototype that openly apes Apple Computer’s popular Mac mini is due out this week, sources told Wired News, giving Intel a showcase to prove its chips are a match for anyone when it comes to tiny PC designs. Working prototypes of the Mac mini look-alike running Microsoft Windows and based on Intel’s Pentium M CPU have already been built by Taiwan PC maker AOpen at Intel’s request, according to two sources in Taiwan’s PC manufacturing industry who have seen them. AOpen manufactures PC and components as a subsidiary of the Taiwanese corporation Wistron, and is affiliated with the giant Acer group. The prototype is to be unveiled here at the Computex trade show, which runs May 31 through June 4. Apple has been using the Mac mini to encourage users of Intel-based PCs running Windows to “switch,”
The Mac Mini (trademarked as Mac mini) is a desktop computer made by Apple Inc. Like earlier Mini-ITX PC designs, it is uncommonly small for a desktop computer: 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) square and 2 inches (5.1 cm) tall. It weighs 2.9 pounds (1.31 kg) and its external power supply is roughly one third of the size of the computer itself. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
