Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV
Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV
The smaller mini loses some ports but gets tons of other functional updates.
Would it be so hard to get dual power supplies and a rack mount?
Well, it would be
- more confusing if they shaped it like an iPhone,
- more unstable if they shaped it like the magic mouse with the power port at the bottom,
- super cute if they kept the exact mac pro tower design but super smol,
- actually useful as a vase of they used that cylinder mac pro design from 10 years ago
That cilinder Mac Pro was a fever dream but I still love the design
Smol Mac Pro would have been the best possible reality here.
more unstable if they shaped it like the magic mouse with the power port at the bottom
Sounds like someone didn't wear their Brave pants today
- way sexier if they shaped it so it could wear tight little brave pants
(and the 'turn on' button would have been covered by pants in this case as well, which sounds proper)
- way sexier if they shaped it so it could wear tight little brave pants
Mac Mini's are cool, and I appreciate that Apple has some of the most experienced and talented designers in the world... But they put the power switch on the bottom. You have to lift it up and turn it over to turn it on and off.
Is it meant to stay on forever once you set it up?
You’ll be able to fit a finger under it I bet.
What.
The fuck.
Remember these are the same engineers who put the Magic Mouse charging port on the bottom, making the mouse unusable while you charge it
People treat it like a mistake but not be able to use the mouse while it’s plugged in is the entire point of the design. Right or wrong the Apple designers thought a cord drag was a bad experience and designed to prevent it.
They probably looked at their target audience and realized there was a certain percentage of folks that would just leave the mouse on the cord 24/7 and wanted to prevent that.
In case it wasn't a joke, I imagine it would be high enough for your finger to just poke under it to push the button, like you would a monitor with buttons on the bottom of the screen.
Doesn't look like it is.
The new design seems more lifted, I think it should be fine to fit your finger below there without having to lift it up yourself. At least for most people.
But once its on why would you ever turn it off? /s
We used to have racks of these things for automated testing …. And eventually they stop responding, so someone needs to power cycle them. In the computer room. In a rack
I bought my iMac in March 2020... since then it's been powered down maybe half a dozen times (a couple of those were power cuts) and rebooted (outside of macOS updates) maybe ten times.
It just sits there reliably doing its thing and sucks little juice in power saving so 🤷🏻♂️
This but non-sarcastically. I have a Mac mini and I don’t think I’ve ever touched the power button (except after plugging in of course, but then you’re already fiddling)
Assuming the desktop takes the same power saving techniques from their laptops, there is no real reason to turn it off.
The next 900$ monitor stand will attach the monitor at the bottom with the screen facing the desk.
You need to buy the ar/vr set to see what the screen is displaying.
The price of the storage upgrades. Jesus.
Why care when we talk about desktops? Take the 512 GB model and attach a super fast and big external TB SSD.
I think you're confusing desktops with laptops.
Because we shouldn't have to pay such prices to upgrade to a normal storage amount without dongles and external storage.
Why care when we talk about desktops?
Because it's $600 and velcroing an external HDD to a nice new sleek piece of hardware makes it look ugly. Typical Apple bullshit, I'm surprised they didn't develop another proprietary connector.
Most, if not all, Apple devices look almost exactly the same as their sibling devices.
It's kinda cute
I mean.. It looks like the other Mac minis so... Okay.
That doesn’t seem very good for the price.
When... have their products ever been competitive on price? Not even shitting on them, but there's always been an Apple tax.
They've often been on par with competitors tbh.
The X1 Carbon isn't much cheaper than a Macbook Air and ditto for Dell XPS vs Macbook Pro. The Macs have better build quality usually, but the PCs would get better specs. RAM, at least.
The Galaxy S series stars in the same range as iPhones do, though you get a better screen. But in the Ultra and Pro Max versions the screens trade blows and the iPhone is apparently cheaper.
Back in 2009-2010 I bought an entry level 13" MacBook Pro because it was fairly competitively priced compared to other options with similar specs, but the MBP had by far the better battery life, display quality, touchpad, and probably keyboard. It was easily worth the upcharge for those factors, so no real Apple Tax.
M4 reportedly outperforms Intel’s Core i9-14900KS by 16%. That CPU alone is over $600.
I don't think anything with the word "intel" can be taken seriously in value comparisons...
When I got my last laptop I ended up with a MBP because there were no high end options for Linux laptops with AMD. Now the options are better, but back then, the only realistic alternative to a MacBook Pro would have had a third of the real-world battery life if not less, even if I decided to spend £3k. That didn't seem like an acceptable compromise so there were virtually no laptops in existence that could compete with an M2 MBP.
Its not, you can build your own mini pc with a ryzen 9700X, more ram, more storage, and it would probrally cost less. In addition you wouldn't be locked into the Apple ecosystem and you would be able to upgrade it.
Sure. And you can buy a dirt bike cheaper than an ATV. Yet people still buy ATVs.
I’m not gonna do iOS dev or ML on a GMKtec no matter how cost-effective it is, just like I’m not gonna play x86 Windows games on a Mac even if I win a maxed-out unit in a giveaway.
Aside from the pitiful SSD it seems good.
Meanwhile... Apple TV stuck in stone age and still can't do bitstream.