Its True! Its True!! :)

[lll_James_lll]

Well I reckon that stuff is so tightly packed in there that Apple fear people will break stuff if they start poking around. We'll have to wait until we get a look inside.

You might have hit the nail on the head, but I hope that it’s possible to open the case and not invalidate the warranty.

[Jonny M]

Ermm..

http://www.apple.com/uk/macmini/specs.html

?

I meant like the RPM of the hard drive

[Stoo]

Well, to be fair to Apple, that's about the only thing they don't mention..

[DaBeeeenster]

Ermm..

http://www.apple.com/uk/macmini/specs.html

?

It doesnt specify size or speed of the hard disk...?

[Stoo]

Hard drive1 40GB Ultra ATA1 80GB Ultra ATA1

it's only the HDD speed that's not mentioned..


looking at that, there's not enough room for a full size hdd, so it's likely to be a laptop drive.

[DaBeeeenster]

As well as the CD writing speed...

[daverobev]

Storage
40 or 80GB Ultra ATA hard disk drive1
One of the following optical drives:
Slot-loading Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW): reads DVDs at up to 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 16x speed, reads CDs at up to 24x speed
Optional SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW): writes DVD-R discs at up to 4x speed, writes DVD-RW discs at up to 2x speed, writes DVD+R discs at up to 4x speed, writes DVD+RW discs at up to 2.4x speed, reads DVDs at up to 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to 16x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 8x speed, reads CDs at up to 24x speed

CD writing speeds are there.

[Stoo]

Come on DaBeeeenster, read the page properly

Just trying to get confirmation of the drive rpm

[Stoo]

Reports from people that have been to the show are saying that it runs faster than the current powerbooks, that would seem to indicate that it's using a 5400RPM drive as they're not having to worry about power consumption..

[Steve]

Maybe something like this then...?

http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/...81,594,00.html

[Flibb]

I liked this to start with then put together what I wanted, ie the ability to write dvd's, wireless network, bigger HD and the extra RAM, then realised I could have a laptop for the same price. Might be tempted when I fully sus out output to TV and hopefully optical digital sound output, can it be done??

[CocoPops]

Yeah, although Hitachi also produce 5400 rpm 2.5" drives.

5400rpm was an option on the powerbook etc even for the larger drives.

[CocoPops]

Yep, it's still an option on the pb to get an 80gb 5400rpm drive, so I'd guess that the mac mini does indeed contain a 5400rpm drive.

I do believe you can actually get 7200rpm 2.5" drives now as well tho?

[Jonny M]

Yer you can Coco

[daverobev]

Well...sounds good! Very good in fact, the difference from 42 to 54 is a lot (but then I went from a 20Gb Tosh to a 40Gb Seagate Momentus with 8Mb cache) whereas 54 to 72 is supposed to not be anything like as much.

I won't believe it 'til I see it, though! Can't see it being 8Mb cache either, but I'm looking forward to being wrong!!

I THINK 7200 laptop drives actually came out before 5400?? Weren't many people doing 54 to start with. 54 Momentus actually beat the 72 (Hitachi, IIRC) in a couple of tests and general overall performance wasn't far off at all..

[DaBeeeenster]

Storage
40 or 80GB Ultra ATA hard disk drive1
One of the following optical drives:
Slot-loading Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW): reads DVDs at up to 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 16x speed, reads CDs at up to 24x speed
Optional SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW): writes DVD-R discs at up to 4x speed, writes DVD-RW discs at up to 2x speed, writes DVD+R discs at up to 4x speed, writes DVD+RW discs at up to 2.4x speed, reads DVDs at up to 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to 16x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 8x speed, reads CDs at up to 24x speed

CD writing speeds are there.

Bah Humbug!