The Yonah-based Mac mini will arrive soon

Slowly for half a year, we’ve known that starting next year, Apple Macintosh computers will transition pretty slowly from PowerPC to Intel-based hardware. As the event approached, more important data came to light.

You can already see the version of Mac OS X Tiger running on an Intel processor couple pictures with us, however, we did not yet know exactly what processor would work in the first commercial copies.

It’s no surprise to the more informed that Apple isn’t the soul of Pentium 4 processors, among others, but increasingly runny He opted for a Netburst architecture, but rather opted for the future Pentium M line.

Thus, members of the new generation of Macintoshes will be the first to build on the 65-nanometer, dual-core Yonah, which, along with the Macs, is expected to hit the market in the first quarter of 2006. If all goes as expected, the Mac mini series will get this processor first, and later the higher-end and portable models will switch to the new architecture.

The PowerMac and PowerBook series will receive the then-current version of the Pentium Ms in late 2006 or early 2007, which is expected to be Merom for the Powerbook and Conroe for the PowerMac. You can read more about the Merom core version in our previous news indicated above.

Apple's Mac mini, iBook, and PowerBook systems are currently based on IBM's G4 processors, with the fastest version running at 1,67 GHz. Compared to these, many applications are expected to show significant improvements when using the dual-core Yonah, but the manufacturer’s latest iMac and PowerMac system is already based on the IBM G5 (PowerPC 970 FX and MP), so it’s easy to make the Yonah-based Mac mini it does not yet take full advantage of the potential of Yonah.