All other test results in the above chart are in seconds lower numbers are better. Mac mini/2.4GHz Core 2 Duo 2GB RAM (Mid 2010)ġ3-inch MacBook Pro/2.3GHz Core i5 4GB RAM (Early 2011)Ģ1.5-inch iMac/ 2.5GHz Core i5 quad-core 4GB RAM (Mid 2011)Ĭinebench graphics, Call of Duty, and Portal 2 results are based on frame rate higher numbers are better.

Mac mini/2.3GHz Core i5 2GB RAM (Mid 2011) Mac mini/2.5GHz Core i5 4GB RAM (Mid 2011) The BTO Mac mini was one second faster then the iMac in our Import movie archive to iMovie ’11 test.īenchmarks: BTO 2.7GHz Mac mini (Mid 2011) Both computers posted the same times in our iMovie ’11 export to iTunes 10 test, and our iTunes 10 AAC to MP3 encode test. In three of our tests, the BTO Mac mini equaled or came within a second of the iMac. The BTO Mac mini also beat the iMac in our 4GB zip test (5 percent faster), our Pages import Word doc test (20 percent faster), and our Parallels WorldBench multitask test (4 percent faster).

Not surprisingly, the BTO Mac mini with its SSD blazed past the iMac in disk-intensive tests such as the 2GB folder duplication (31 percent faster) and 4GB file unzip (42 percent faster). While we don’t have an overall Speedmark 7 score yet, we see in the individual application results that the BTO Mac mini beat the 21.5-inch 2.5GHz Core i5 iMac in five of our 12 tests. Macworld Lab tested the BTO Mac mini using a subset of our Speedmark 7 benchmark suite, which is currently in development as we adjust our testing to account for Mac OS X Lion.

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