Mac Mini’s are updating, again
Published September 28th, 2005 in Apple, Technology
It looks like the Mac Mini’s are being updates, secretly. If you order your Mac Mini from the online Apple Store, you may get a new bumped up Mini, or an older one. They will arrive in the same boxes and labels, so you won’t know until you turn it on. The reason Apple are doing this is to enable them to clear the stock out of the older models before they announce the newer ones. This way they can sell it for the same price. Unfair 
Just as I got mine a month ago a newer one is out! The Mac Mini’s are being updated from 1.42GHz (the model that I have) to 1.5GHz and from 1.25GHz to 1.33GHz. The SuperDrive model will now have a 8x SuperDrive instead of a 4x. The Mac mini’s graphics card remains an ATI Radeon 9200 but now features double the VRAM at 64MB. The video card still can’t support Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger’s Core Image technology The hard drives have also been upgraded to 5400 rpm instead of 4200 rpm. Finally, the new Mac mini features Bluetooth 2.0+EDR support and the Bluetooth software is version 1.6.3f2 (the previous Mac mini used 1.6.0f2) with firmware version 3.1965 (previously 2.1586).
Essentially, customers are promised that the Mac mini they purchase will have specifications “at least” equal to the label, but that their system may exceed those. Customers who purchase a new Mac mini to find they ended up with the older configuration will not be able to return the system in the hopes of getting the newer configuration without paying a restocking fee.
So they are playing a game…
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