The Apple Mac mini "Core i7" 2.0 Server (Mid-2011) features a 32-nm "Sandy Bridge" Quad Core 2.0 GHz Intel "Core i7" (2635QM) processor with four independent processor "cores" on a single chip, a 6 MB shared level 3 cache, 4 GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (PC3-10600) memory, dual 500 GB hard drives, and Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384 MB of memory shared with the system. It does not have an internal optical drive, although an external one can be purchased

Compared to the non-server Mac mini "Core i7" 2.7 (Mid-2011), this model looks identical, but is equipped with a more powerful quad core processor and dual hard drives and ships with a pre-installed copy of Lion Server.