New Mac minis Announced, Starting At Just $599 [iPad mini Event]
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Fresh off of announcing a new Retina MacBook Pro, but the Mac mini is also getting a major new update. The design is the same, but there’s now four USB 3 ports.
Here’s the base configuration:
• 2.5GHz dual-core i5
• 4GB RAM
• 500GB HDD
The base configuration just starts at $599.
There’s also a server variation:
• 2.3GHz quad-core i7
• 4GB RAM
• 2 1TB HDDs.
The server configuration starts at just $999.
The new Mac mini starts shipping today.
John Brownlee is Cult of Mac's Deputy Editor. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his girlfriend and two parakeets. You can follow him 
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