my 2012 one has an Ivy Bridge i7 in it and it is still plenty fast for build tasks in my (fairly price-conscious) environment. That's the point: the current mi

my 2012 one has an Ivy Bridge i7 in it and it is still plenty fast for build tasks in my (fairly price-conscious) environment. That's the point: the current mini is worse than what you could get in 2012, due to removing the quad core option and upgradeable memory.