A Taiwanese forum page has been discussing the results of replacing an Intel Mac mini’s standard Core Duo chip with a Core 2 Duo chip (the 2.16GHz Merom T740) that is slated to be released on August 2006. The benchmarks are pretty reliable and they don't lie - although the tinkered-on MacMini did not recognize that someone did a "brain surgery" on it (click on the left thumbprint), when it is compared to both a dual 1.8GHz G5 and a dual 2.5GHz G5 (right thumbprint below), the Merom-running MacMini beats them both in an iTunes MP3 to AAC conversion despite the mini’s slower hard drive.