[eastWestMath]

I just looked on the Apple store app and you can get a Mac mini with a 3.0ghz dual core i7 and 16 gb of ram.

[techdragon]

The Mac mini at one point had a quad core option. It actually had the maximum spec option reduced some time ago. The current Mac mini is less powerful than one you could buy several years ago.

[simonh]

Sure, but the CPU offerings haven't been updated since 2014. It's only a marginal upgrade on the 2011 and 2012 models.

[jasonsync]

My point exactly. 6 years have passed and only a 0.3 GHz improvement in CPU speed and not much else.