Mac mini 2017?

[BayouTiger]

I ran my business for years on three 2012 Minis. They work brilliantly as dedicated servers. In fact I would say that even the current Mini is more than capable due to its outstanding I/O ports.

An older Mini and a Used Pegasus R6 makes an excellent server for a great price.

 

[Count Blah]

And it looks like the increasing compatibility of eGPUs (even midrange GPUs seem to have no problem with the first generation Thunderbolt) make the primary vulnerability of the late 2012 Mini somewhat lessened. Plenty of folks are reporting success with using that machine with an eGPU under Sierra. Yeah, you won't get 4K@60 out of it, but 1080p at 60 FPS seems very doable.

which is why Apple is loath release an updated Mac Mini. Can't take possibly lose a sale of an iMac/MBP to a new, capable, powerful Mac Mini with updated thunderbolt.
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An older Mini and a Used Pegasus R6 makes an excellent server for a great price.

Thanks for pointing out why Apple chose not to continue with the same approach to this potentially AMAZING machine
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[JamesPDX]

The whole AMD Ryzen CPU lineup, Nvidia 10** GPUs, NVMe drives, amazing cases that give you the freedom to do what you want, etc...

No, it's an awesome time to shop for computers - just not Macs, especially if you want the power and upgradeability the 2012 Mac Mini brought to the table.

I haven't found anyone who has been able to get Thunderbolt 3 stable and reliable on a Windows 10 machine for the UAD Apollo TB hardware. Otherwise, I'd just buy a 4.8 Ghz Apexx 2403 from Boxx.