The new Mac mini was tested with OSX 10.6.4, the MacBook was tested with OS X 10.6.3 and the the rest were tested with 10.6. All others are in minutes:seconds (lower is better). Speedmark and MathematicaMark are performance scores (higher scores are better). Call of Duty score is in frames per second (higher is better). We’ll work on an explanation as we continue our testing.īest results in bold. The results were strange but repeatable, even with three different DVDs, throwing out Handbrake preferences and reinstalling the application. The new Mac mini was also faster in our file duplication tests.Ĭuriously, the new Mac mini’s Handbrake H.264 test results were quite a bit slower than the older 2.53GHz Mac mini’s the new Mac mini’s scores were on par with the MacBook Air with a USB optical drive.

The new 2.4GHz Mac mini’s Speedmark score was nearly identical to the older, 2.53GHz model, but that can be attributed almost entirely to the improved graphics, which helped to nearly double the number of frames per second the new system was able to display in our Call of Duty 4 tests.Īperture was 12 percent faster on the new 2.4GHz Mac mini, while the iMovie tests export test results were 8 percent faster, and the iMovie import results were about 5 percent faster than the 2.53GHz model. In our tests of the new standard 2.4GHz Mac mini, we found it performed as well as the specs would suggest, with most of its test results falling in between the results of the previous 2.26GHz and 2.53GHz models in nine of our 16 tests.

Intel core 2 duo 2.4 ghz.