Apple Mac Mini "Core i5" 2.5 Late 2012 Specs

Screen Size and Resolution

The Mac Mini supports dual display with resolution support of 1920×1200 and also has a 2^nd display support of 2560×1600.

Inclusive Features 

The Mac Mini includes the following features and ports:

• A Power Adapter (100V-240V AC, 85 W maximum)
• Standard AirPort Extreme (802.11a/b/g/n)
• Gigabit Ethernet
• HDMI port
• 1 Thunderbolt Port
• SDXC Card Slot
• One FireWire 800 port
• A Mini DisplayPort allowing dual and mirroring operations with resolutions of up to 2560×1600.
• Built-in Stereo Speakers

Processor & Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

The Mac Mini has Mac OS X 10.8.1 (12B2080) pre-installed on it and is powered by a 2.5 GHz Core i5 (I5-3210M) processor. The graphics processor is an Intel HD Graphics 4000 with 512 MB of memory shared with the system. During this period, other manufacturers have opted for dedicated graphics cards in order to improve gaming and graphics capability, however, Apple chose to better their software and keep with integrated graphics.

Memory & Architecture

The device is built with a 3 MB on-chip level 3 cache with a frontside bus of 5 GT/s and with 4 GB of 1600 MHz PC3-12800 DDR3 its RAM. It’s design is centered on a 64-Bit architecture.

Upgradability

Although the Mac Mini comes with 4 GB of RAM it can be upgraded to up to 16 GB of RAM. The Operating System of the Mac Mini can also be upgraded from its pre-installed Mac OS X 10.8.1 (12B2080) up to MacOS X 10.13. This Mac Mini is also able to act as a host to Windows 7 (32-Bit) and versions as recent as Windows 8.1 (64-Bit). This Mac Mini has the following dimensions and weight 36mm×197mm×197mm and weight of 2.7 lbs (1.22 kg).