Above all, I must have quiet. I do not know what handbrake is. But for the average stuff I do, maybe an Air would work. Hope I never have to find out
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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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Above all, I must have quiet. I do not know what handbrake is. But for the average stuff I do, maybe an Air would work. Hope I never have to find out
Above all, I must have quiet. I do not know what handbrake is. But for the average stuff I do, maybe an Air would work. Hope I never have to find out
Handbrake is a video compression / transcoding app. It works hard!
Ah, I get that. Yeah I would most likely not be using that. If so, I would get the pro
I think they will release it on the last day of December. That way everyone buying one the next day will have a year old mini!
Yeah, that came off pretty odd with the Mac Pro. They had to meet their self imposed deadline of 'shipping this year', then had huge back orders, then had a 2013 model on day two. Much better to keep it under wraps and let all the customer energy pile up in weird and wonderful threads speculating when.
(Notice: not sarcasm)
Since i just ordered a refurb i7, I can pretty much guarantee a refreshed Mac Mini will be announced with much better specs and a lower price in exactly 15 days.
BTW, if you've been waiting on refurbished Minis they are in stock again.
BTW, if you've been waiting on refurbished Minis they are in stock again.
Since i just ordered a refurb i7, I can pretty much guarantee a refreshed Mac Mini will be announced with much better specs and a lower price in exactly 15 days.
BTW, if you've been waiting on refurbished Minis they are in stock again.
We might have heard that one before in this thread. Wish it were true.
It's what keeps breaking my 2006 mini. It's why I'm waiting for a new mini so I can throw 24 hours of video at it to convert and get it back the same week.
You have to love the old beast though, it grinds away for days on end converting video, never gets too hot, no noise, just does its thing .. until it fails on a USB timeout or an HDD corruption and has to be resuscitated.
Come on Apple please, this old workhorse deserves its time in the pasture.
While a new(er) Mac mini surely would be able to process your videos much faster, it will get very hot and very loud while doing so. It will then have to throttle and proceed slower than (theoretically) possible with the available horsepower (not to mention the negative impact on component livespan).
What about getting an old MP instead for such kind of work? Available dirt-cheap these days, lots of storage space with its 4 internal 3.5" bays and still on par with a Mini performancewise. Such a beast is not breaking a sweat while crunching through your material at continuous full speed.
Even a first-generation MP can inexpensively be upgraded to 8 physical cores (compared to the max. 8 threads of a Mini) which is very beneficial for video work. SSD is also no problem. Runs up to 10.7 officially, but can also be upgraded to Mavericks with some small tricks (if desired).
Two small caveats apply:
- Many used MacPros that age and price class sport their share of dents, scratches or other cosmetical damages.
- FB-DIMM Ram upgrades are a bit on the expensive side, so better look for one with a sufficient amount of Ram (e.g. 8-12GB) already installed.
I have a 2012 I5 that I handbrake with and while it does run around 85-90C it never gets noisy. Exhaust fan at 97% CPU on a Blu Ray handbrake runs at 2100 for 4-5 hrs. 1800 rpm is normal exhaust at 50C.
If handbrake is all your doing all day long then a Pro would be a better choice.
Oh, but I can assure you, no one has worse luck than I do when it comes to these things
Left 2 Tuesday until declare officially VAPORWARE the Mid 14 Mac mini and the Mid 14 iMac 27.
My 2012 2.3 i7 already sits at that temperature when only browsing and playing back an EyeTV Livestream in parallel - with Handbrake transcoding I would expect it to be around 100°C...
My 2012 2.3 i7 already sits at that temperature when only browsing and playing back an EyeTV Livestream in parallel - with Handbrake transcoding I would expect it to be around 100°C...
My I5 has never gone over 90C. I've heard the I7 runs hotter especially the 2.6.
My 2011 i5 with Radeon graphics runs super hot as well. It's idle temperature with an SSD and HD in there is 170-180f. Just sitting there idle if a process uses more than 20% of the CPU it shoots to 210+ and the fans come on full blast and sound like a hair dryer.
That doesn't seem right unless the graphics card requires 20%.
Mine idles at 1-3%CPU at 45-50C and exhaust at 1750-1800 RPM.
Try to open the mini (see ifixit for a proper guide) and clean the innards (especially fan and air ducts) from dust with pressurized air. This should bring an enormous improvement.
If it doesn't, you should consider reapplying the thermal paste - there is a dedicated guide on ifixit for this as well.
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I have a 2009 mini I use as a server, works great but I really need (want) USB3 for all my externals. I thinking of a refurbished mini server. I just need a little push one way or the other.
Basically my situation (my server is a 2009 Mac mini server). Hoping for new minis so the existing server refurb will drop to $750 from $850. I currently use FW800 and USB2 externals (5 total!) but would like to future-proof for Thunderbolt and USB3. Since the current minis still have FW800, I don't have to immediately replace everything as I would with a "new Mac mini" which probably won't have FW800. And I certainly don't want to pay more for an SSD only mini.
USB 3 isn't exactly future-proof because 3.1 will have a new connector. Type C is a big improvement, but will require an adaptor for current devices.
USB 3 Type C Isn't aimed to replace the main host connector, only at portable device as plug for sync cable.