Our 799 review unit packs a a quad-core i7 clocked. The Retina MacBook Pro’s Portal 2 tests displayed twice as many frames per second. Making the leap from last years Sandy Bridge processors, the 2012 Mac mini now runs on Intels third-generation Ivy Bridge Core i5 and i7 CPUs.
#Mac mini i7 2012 pro#
Cinebench Open GL tests on the 15-inch 2.6GHz Core i7 Retina MacBook Pro with 500GB flash storage and 8GB of RAM were 70 percent faster than the BTO Mac mini. And the Mac mini’s GPU was totally overwhelmed by the graphics performance of the 15-inch Retina display MacBook Pros and their discreet nVidia GeForce GT 650M graphics with 1GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory. The BTO Mac mini failed to beat the 2011 high-end Mac mini in Portal 2 and Cinebench Open GL tests.
#Mac mini i7 2012 upgrade#
The scores would’ve been even higher had Apple offered a discreet graphics upgrade alternative to the capable-if somewhat lackluster-Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics. That makes sense, seeing how the high-end 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro has the same 2.6GHz quad-core Core i7 processor as the BTO Mac mini and uses flash storage instead of standard rotational hard drives. The BTO Mac mini’s combination of extra RAM, a speedy SSD, and a quad-core Core i7 processor was so good, its performance earned a Speedmark 8 score just below the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pros. Its a 2.6GHz quad-core i7 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB Fusion Drive on Sierra 10.12.1.
Apple Mac mini 2.5GHz Core i5 (Late 2012) MD387LL/A 4 - Excellent Condition. As you can see, our benchmark tests bear that out. Apple Mac mini 2.5GHz Core i5 (Late 2012) MD387LL/A - Very Good Condition. (A Fusion Drive is not Apple’s special implementation of a hybrid drive, which houses a SSD and a hard drive in one mechanism.) Data is written to the SSD first, so the idea is that you get SSD speeds but with the capacity of standard hard drives. Fusion Drive gives you the best of both worlds by bringing together a separate 120GB SSD and 1TB hard drive and presenting them to both the user and applications as a single drive. SSDs are fast as all get out, but they have very limited capacity and they cost a lot more than traditional drives. I’ll dig deeper into the Fusion Drive in my next article, but in brief, Fusion Drive is Apple’s answer to the high-price-per-gigabyte problem of solid-state drives. The BTO Mac mini’s PCMark productivity test score (using VMWare Fusion) was three times higher than the high-end standard configuration’s score. Support for up to two displays at 2560 by 1600 pixels, both at millions of colors. Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB. The standard configuration $799 Mac mini with its 5400-rpm hard drive took more than three times as long to complete our copy file and uncompress file tests as the Fusion Drive did in the BTO Mac mini. Processor: 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz) with 6MB 元 cache.
But it was the Fusion Drive that really kicked the BTO Mac mini into overdrive.