I must say this Mini might almost be too powerful and too expandable for us.
Good grief Apple! What were YOU thinking?!?
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New Mac Mini is out. Is (almost) everyone happy now?
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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
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.
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).
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).
Sorry, no. Wednesday the 10th. Didn't mean to imply any sooner than announced availability.
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.
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.
Yeah the Mac mini is in no way an affordable Mac anymore.
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.
Maxed out mini is $4200.00 that is laughable.
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.
In Europe the base i3 starts at 899€ (= $1020), the i5 at 1249€ (= $1420)...
Can get a fanless i5-8500T (35W) Win10 for under 1000€ though:
https://www.atlastsolutions.com/fan...00t-mini-pc-8gb-250gb-860-evo-ssd-asus-h310t/
Can get a fanless i5-8500T (35W) Win10 for under 1000€ though:
https://www.atlastsolutions.com/fan...00t-mini-pc-8gb-250gb-860-evo-ssd-asus-h310t/
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.
So true.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.
If you click on the Memory section's "How much memory is right for you", it says "expandable". Also, the keynote specifically referenced SO-DIMMs.
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.
External Storage. It's a desktop so it's not a big deal to hook up an external drive to it.