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New Mac Mini is out. Is (almost) everyone happy now?

WilliamG said:
The pricing is insane. I’m sorry. Bog standard i5 with 8GB RAM for $1100 + tax. Insane. That’s over $1200 for me in Seattle.
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Where did you see that price? the live coverage said the base model was "8GB, 3.6GHz quad-core processor, 128GB $799".

[edit] Nevermind, I see the prices are online now
 
strawbale said:
I was also hoping for and preferring a mobile quadcore (i5-8259u), which has better performance and better iGPU (iris plus 655 with 128 eDRAM):
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compar...tel-i3-8100-vs-Intel-i5-8259U/895vs3103vs3299

They'd better have a big slow fan in there otherwise it'll be very noisy...
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Yes, the base model is disappointing. Not 2014 disappointing, but still disappointing.

The website is up, and there's the $1,099 price point... for an i5, not an i7. Of course.

Need to see how the desktop i5 compares to the mobile i7-8850H I was hoping for.
 
Event was a bit of a yawner. They TRIUMPHANTLY presented glorious new MacBook Airs and Mac minis...oh, which they'd let wither on the vine since (essentially) 2010 and 2014, respectively. Woohoo, Apple!! And even then, they seemed about 1/10th as excited about the Mac updates as the iPad Pro. And we didn't get any more Mac news than that. No hint or preview of Mac Pro or expected iMac updates.

Mac mini looked good to me at first...until I looked at the pricing. Storage pricing is UNREAL. NVMe SSD "gumsticks" packing 2500MB/s are cheaper every day, with 1TB for under $300 now, but to upgrade from 128GB (seriously?) to 1TB on the mini costs EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS. And I'm sure it's Apple-proprietary, soldered stuff. I'm really curious about why we cannot have non-proprietary-connector, socketed SSDs in any Apple products these days. M.2 is tiny and is everywhere now, yet we have locked-in storage in Apple-land.

Anyway, the tech and potential performance is exciting for Mac mini, but when a base 4-core is configured w/ what I'd consider a reasonable complement of 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD, the price skyrockets to $1200. Or $1400 for a more useful 512GB. And even the base price is $300 or 60% higher than the traditional starting price point for the "economical Mac" of $500.

I'm glad to see updates to Mac mini and MacBook Air finally, but they act like it's the Second Coming and charge accordingly. :rolleyes:
 
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Would this be good to get editing 4k video editing? or would you need to buy the blackmagic eGPU with it?
 
I'm not sure about the Intel UHD Graphics 630 either. I know that they've gotten a lot better, so we'll see how it does when people start testing with it. For the general user, it's perfectly adequate. All I need to know is if it can play World of Warcraft so I no longer need to keep my PC around.
 
WilliamG said:
The pricing is insane. I’m sorry. Bog standard i5 with 8GB RAM for $1100 + tax. Insane. That’s over $1200 for me in Seattle.
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Susurs said:
Not happy. There is no option with a discrete graphics.
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Yeah, this is crazy. My Coffee Lake i5 Windows 10 PC, with 16GB RAM, an Nvidia 1070, and a 256GB 950 EVO m.2 drive - in a fully expandable tower - cost less than the i5 mini.
 
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I keep reading user upgradeable RAM here on MacRumors. But Apple site makes no mention of it — at least not that I've seen.
It says, "configurable"… not quite the same thing.
 
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imgroot said:
Just ordered mine.

3.2 6-core i7
16GB memory
512GB storage
10Gb NIC

$1799

Be here Wednesday. My first new Mac since 2009 (not counting work supplied laptops).
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Awesome. I am getting mine probably in December. There will be time to see how does it perform, I hope everything will be fine. One thing that bothers me is desktop CPU, I hope that heat dissipation system can cope with it.
 
Too bad Fusion Drive doesn’t work on external storage. What is fast HEVC encoding good for, if you can’t even store all 26 seasons of Doctor Who in SD quality? 128GB all Flash storage means the Mac mini is now more than ever a laptop without a display.
 
Gudi said:
Too bad Fusion Drive doesn’t work on external storage. What is fast HEVC encoding good for, if you can’t even store all 26 seasons of Doctor Who in SD quality? 128GB all Flash storage means the Mac mini is now more than ever a laptop without a display.
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External Storage. It's a desktop so it's not a big deal to hook up an external drive to it.
 
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