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<blockquote data-quote="Exodist" data-source="post: 1617848" data-attributes="member: 284358">Yea your not the only one little less the pleased with this. I have the 2012 i7 2.6Ghz Quad Core. Was really looking to see what they would offer. I am not as upset over the RAM as much as I was them limiting it to dual core. Even if it was just a i5 quad I would have been happy. But IMHO this was a marketing decision so the Mini would not take away from the sales of the new iMac with 5K display. They knew they had already dragged along to late on releasing the new mini and customers still want them. So they intentionally made it slower this release. That said, I would not be a bit surprised if the next release is a quad core again.Now IMHO if you love the Mini, take a look at the 21&quot; iMac. The 2nd up model has a 2.7Ghz i5 Quad core, 1TB drive, 8GB RAM, plus keyboard and mouse. Not to forget the display for $1299. When I bought my Mini and decked it out I had just over $1100 in the system with keyboard and mouse at the time and still no display. So you can still get a great system for a reasonable price.Cheers,Joe</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Exodist, post: 1617848, member: 284358"] Yea your not the only one little less the pleased with this. I have the 2012 i7 2.6Ghz Quad Core. Was really looking to see what they would offer. I am not as upset over the RAM as much as I was them limiting it to dual core. Even if it was just a i5 quad I would have been happy. But IMHO this was a marketing decision so the Mini would not take away from the sales of the new iMac with 5K display. They knew they had already dragged along to late on releasing the new mini and customers still want them. So they intentionally made it slower this release. That said, I would not be a bit surprised if the next release is a quad core again. Now IMHO if you love the Mini, take a look at the 21" iMac. The 2nd up model has a 2.7Ghz i5 Quad core, 1TB drive, 8GB RAM, plus keyboard and mouse. Not to forget the display for $1299. When I bought my Mini and decked it out I had just over $1100 in the system with keyboard and mouse at the time and still no display. So you can still get a great system for a reasonable price. Cheers, Joe [/QUOTE]

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