I went for the 2.7GHz i7 in the end - it was only 80 quid more, plus 8Gigs RAM.justin3am wrote:Wikipedia has good info on what is in the latest Macs...aMUSEd wrote:Do you know if the i5's on the new Mac Mini are Sandy bridge?Urs wrote:I would recommend the i5 only if it's the Sandy Bridge generation, otherwise I'd go i7. I do think the 3+GHz ones are.
That's because there's a special instruction set from Sandy Bridge processors on which - might give us a significant speed bump, once we adjust the code for it.
(darn, I went home hungry before getting to do Bazille... tomorrow...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Mini
Current MacMinis use Sandy Bridge generation processors:
i5-2415M, i5-2520M, i7-2620M, i7-2635QM
So I am now officially a Mac user - or at least I will be when I pick it up next week

