Yes I will have a hunt around the Apple Australia website and see what I can find - not much point in worrying until we see exactly what Apple are releasing, and moreover WHEN it will be available.
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High-End M1 Mac Mini Pricing predictions
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Yes I will have a hunt around the Apple Australia website and see what I can find - not much point in worrying until we see exactly what Apple are releasing, and moreover WHEN it will be available.
Yes it is 14 days....haha not much help when the announcement from Apple is AFTER those days expire. Ah well if I need to I can always cop a loss and sell it off 
Not going to woryy too much, as I wrote, until Apple release details.
Not going to woryy too much, as I wrote, until Apple release details.
Apple should just add the M1 Pro as a BTO option for the iMac and the Mac mini and be done with it. Then you have a high end iMac and a high end Mac mini with hardly any internal changes. Or add a new M1 Pro iMac SE in graphite like the old days, that would be fun.
For the Mini: it would be a waste to add an M1 Pro without also adding the extra ports* it could support. Apart from that, I don't see how that differs from what is being rumoured... apart from removing the internal PSU which I really hope is a false rumour.
For the iMac - I've often wondered why there's the ridiculous distinction between the 2-port base model and the "higher" model with 2 extra (non-TB) USB-C ports and the extra fan, and whether that was initially meant to be a M1 Pro option all along.
(*at least 1 extra TB4 port - and it's not clear what else)
Along those lines I think you can look at the 14" MBP pricing and chop off ~$700. Although I personally hope for more...
So something like...
M1 Pro, 8-core CPU, 14-core GPU, 16GB RAM, 512GB - $1299
M1 Pro, 10-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 16GB RAM, 1TB - $1799
M1 Pro, 10-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 32GB RAM, 1TB - $1999
...
M1 Max, 10-Core CPU, 32-core GPU, 64GB RAM, 1TB - $2999
So something like...
M1 Pro, 8-core CPU, 14-core GPU, 16GB RAM, 512GB - $1299
M1 Pro, 10-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 16GB RAM, 1TB - $1799
M1 Pro, 10-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 32GB RAM, 1TB - $1999
...
M1 Max, 10-Core CPU, 32-core GPU, 64GB RAM, 1TB - $2999
These prices match up with upgrade costs for the 14" MBP, excepting the full-die M1 Pro SoC model with 32Gb RAM should actually be $2199...?
The pricing between 32GB & 64GB is correct; maybe @DeepIn2U is not noticing that the SoC has also went from the full-die M1 Pro to the full-die M1 Max...?
Nah I'm just not a fan of the price proposed earlier.
Plus you cannot compare costs with a laptop since the laptop includes a screen. great debate and pricing we'll know who's closest on March 8th or 9th and what is available.
Nah I'm just not a fan of the price proposed earlier.
Plus you cannot compare costs with a laptop since the laptop includes a screen. great debate and pricing we'll know who's closest on March 8th or 9th and what is available.
Realistic is fine. You're most likely right. I can still not be a fan of the pricing suggested though
I still gotta feel out needs if 32GB is sufficient for me or 64GB.
Nah I'm just not a fan of the price proposed earlier.
Plus you cannot compare costs with a laptop since the laptop includes a screen. great debate and pricing we'll know who's closest on March 8th or 9th and what is available.
No one is comparing prices directly...
You take the 14" MBP, establish a baseline price differential between said laptop & the hypothetical high-end Mac mini, then you use the upgrade costs for the 14" laptop to derive the upgrade costs for the Mac mini...
Upgrade pricing (more CPU/GPU cores, more RAM, more SSD) is something that should be the same across all the Apple silicon products...
And to wrap it up, you add $100 for 10Gb Ethernet...!
You are right, I had $1999 stuck in my head for the configuration I would lean towards and that is with a 512GB SSD not the 1TB.