Will a new mac mini support two screens?

I would like to purchase a mini but need to run 2 screens.

Hello, yes...
Video Support
Works with almost any display or HDTV.
Thunderbolt port with support for up to 2560-by-1600 resolution
HDMI port with support for up to 1920-by-1200 resolution
DVI output using HDMI to DVI Adapter (included)
Support for dual display and video mirroring
http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html

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Can New mac mini supports SATA III harddisk?

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wongcp wrote:
The new mac mini is used "Hitachi HTS545050B9A302" as harddrive. I don't know it is a SATA II or SATA III harddisk.
Can anyone tell me.
Apple are likely to use different batches and makes even in the same model Mac. However I believe the above Hitachi drive to be a SATA II which is 3.0Gbps.
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I currently use a mid 2009 17 inch Unibody MacBook Pro (3.06 Ghz intel core 2 duo, 8GB Ram, and upgraded 1TB SSD hardrive) and have experienced some lag when rendering projects while editing in FCP X. The SSD harddrive upgrade has proved increase of overall performance tremendously. However, I want more power.
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You'll get less problems if you move your Events and Projects off of the system drive and on to a secondary drive, to start with. Get a FW800 drive (I've been happy with on-the-go drives from Other World Computing for years), move all Events and Proejcts to it.
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I had bought the previous 2010 Mac Mini with this schedule:
June 21st, Ordering
June 21st, Bank transfer to Apple
June 23th, Apple confirmed it has received.
June 24th, Apple sent me an email with "thanks to buy apple"
June 27th, Apple sent the Mac Mini
July, 6th. RECEIVED
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Hi,
In most cases, if NCQ is enabled with a direct connect RAID configuration (like the internal Mac Pro bays) it does not provide significant additional performance. With some hard disk models having NCQ turned on will actually provide slower overall performance. You can see this when testing the HighPoint and Areca RAID controllers in the Mac Pro as they allow the user to turn NCQ off or on.
If you read the NCQ spec, it ibdicates performance will be significantly higher with NCQ enabled. I have grown to believe that most of this is in theory, as in real use NCQ usually provides overall negative performance results with a direct connect RAID set.
The one configuration that enabling NCQ provides a slight overall performance increase is with port multiplier (PM) enclosures.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
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