Mac Mini and iMac compared
- Both the iMac and the Mac Mini have a housing made of solid aluminum.
- The Mac Mini and the smaller iMac, therefore, both come with an Intel Dual Core with 1.4 GHz. The large iMac can be upgraded with its Quad-core up to 3.5 GHz. The new iMac with 5K Retina Display, and even up to 4 GHz. Such upgrading, however, can double quickly the price of the iMacs, because of the Extra Features in the iMac compared to the Mac Mini is much more expensive.
- Both can be purchased with a hard drive or a fusion drive, and do not differ in memory. Only the smaller 21 inch iMac has a slower hard drive than, than all the others.
- Mac Mini and the smaller iMac both come with an Intel HD graphics from the 5000 series or Intel Iris graphics therefore. The 27-inch iMac, and the iMac with Retina Display, you can select much higher graphics chips. Two NVIDIA GeForce Chips to the iMac as a selection on the iMac with Retina Display against an AMD Radeon R9 M290X or AMD Radeon R9 M295X with 2 or 4 GB of memory.
- At the terminals, or the supplied Apps neither the Mac Mini nor the iMac are different to each other. All of them have USB 3.0, Thunderbolt, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet, or be shipped with OS X Yosemite.
- The smallest iMac is equipped with a Full HD Display, and its big brother with 2560 x 1440 pixels and the iMac with 5K Retina Display even has points with a resolution of 5120 x 2880 image.
- The Mac Mini, you get already from about 470 euros with 1.4 GHz. The cheapest iMac you can get for about 950 euros in the version with 21.5-inch and 1.4 GHz.
The Mac Mini
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