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Benchmarks: Mac Mini’s brain replaced with a Core 2 Duo

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Faithful Macenstein reader rico sent us a posting on the Taiwanese forum Oikos discussing the results of replacing an Intel Mac mini’s standard Core Duo chip with a Core 2 Duo chip (the 2.16GHz Merom T740). After a quick Babelfish “Traditional Chinese-to-English” translation, we can see why he was so excited!

Read more HERE.
 
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haha, I saw this a little while ago on TUAW.
 
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biggyme13 said:
haha, I saw this a little while ago on TUAW.
Click to expand...

yep, and it said that this chip could beat the best PowerMac G5 right now.

Holy cow!
 
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Why don't we get them?

EDIT - Oops, read it wrong. I get it now.
 

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