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what's going on guys johnathan ear with TechnoBuffalo with my unboxing of the 2012 Mac Mini what you know has been out for a few weeks now but this is a custom built to order quad core model with a one terabyte fusion drive so let's go and find out what comes in the box and exactly how fast that fusion drive is so on the front of the box we have the Mac Mini text and the little guy hanging out down below and it's actually about the size of this box on the flip side they give us a little overview of the ins and the outs but I'm gonna give you guys a close-up look and actually give you a real tour of that so we can go and skip that for now so we'll go to flip the box back over so we can begin the unboxing by sliding out the Mac Mini like so we're gonna lift from the little tab right here and then we're gonna set the Mac Mini to the side just for a second as we go through the accessories first up we have a quick start guide which kindly says hello then we have some documentation on the Mac Mini itself and then of course it would not be an Apple unboxing without those Apple stickers beyond that we have an HDMI to DVI adapter which is cool of Apple to include because you know as well as I do they will gouge you any chance they get with an adapter cable lastly we have a power cable and that wraps up the accessories so we can go and unwrap the Mac Mini and take a closer look so you guys can see it's got a nice brushed aluminum finish doesn't take up a whole lot of space it's very compact we've got the Apple logo up towards the top and giving you guys a closer look at the ins and the outs we'll go to start to Alex with the physical power button and then right next to that we have the actual power input followed by the Ethernet port we then have a firewire 800 port to HDMI out a Thunderbolt port for USB 3.0 ports an SD card slot and an audio in as well as out now like I said this is the quad-core model so here is an initial Geekbench score and you can see it does perform quite well and it actually does beat out some of the older Mac pros again this is equipped with a fusion drive which takes the speed and performance of a solid-state drive and combines it with the lower-cost capacity of a traditional hard disk drive now even though these are physically two separate drives you guys can see it does come up as one volume in the Mac OS profile tab as far as speeds go you can see it does operate really really quick with read speeds over 400 megabytes per second and write speeds topping over 300 megabytes per second to give an idea of how that actually affects you in terms of a real-world test I'm gonna duplicate a four gigabyte file and you guys can see exactly how much faster the fusion drive is that a standard 5400 RPM hard disk drive so I'm gonna go in an interrupt right here and stop it not make you guys sit through the entire thing you can see the actual hard drive had quite a ways to go whereas a fusion drive finished it up very very fast I know a lot of people will mistakenly compare it to a traditional SSD cache and drive like a CGI Momentis or something like Intel Smart Response technology but those actually operate in terms of hard drive first SSD second whereas the fusion drive tries to do everything first through the SSD and then intelligently moves things that you don't use to the hard drive and then things you do back to the SSD so thank you guys very much for watching this video hopefully it gave a little clarity to those of you interested in the fusion drive make sure to check out TechnoBuffalo comm for the latest and greatest tech content this is John M or John for Bulls signing out I will see you guys later you