Core Duo performance and future Mac Mini upgrades
April 19th, 2006
My little Mac Mini has already illustrated this to me – these Intel Core Duo CPUs really give great bang for buck, without melting the enclosure. Admittidly, my Mini is only running at 1.66Ghz (compared to the 2.16Ghz chip tested here) but the video encoding performance alone mean it is the right chip for the heart of my PVR (hehe).
The other good news is that the Mac Mini uses Intel’s standard Socket 479 for mounting the CPU. So when these 2.5Ghz+ Core Duo chips are cheap as nuts an upgrade will be in order. That might be timely (and necessary) if Leopard does support virtualization…
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