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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming

Crosscreek said:
Let me start now and agree we need a better GPU than the 2014 nMac Mini. :)
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Words of wisdom.

I am also seriously displeased with them sticking to only two TB2 ports in the 2016 revision of the nMini.

Typical Apple. Disappointing us well in advance. :mad:
 
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Just checking back in from a weeks vacation.
4050 Posts and on Page 163!
Oh My, what have we created!

Someone needs to call CNN Breaking News!
 
barkmonster said:
You're still delusional.

5200 vs 7200 rpm drive? SO-DIMMs vs desktop RAM? A desktop CPU vs a laptop one?
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Reading not your strong suit? Let's keep this short and use small words then.

When you try to do something that pushes the processor on a mac mini, it overheats. It slows the CPU way down to prevent damage and let it cool. It runs very slow. And it sounds like a jet engine. It is only fast when you don't need the speed. There is easily at 20x speed difference at batch processing photos.

The i7-4960X is £780+ just for the CPU too so I don't know where your fantasy land prices are from either.
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You really do need to work on those reading skills. The i7-4960x was to point out that the mini is nowhere near 80% of the top of the desktop (non-server) CPUs. My i7-3770 is in the same class price range as the mini i7 CPU, about 20% faster in specs (as you said). And the whole computer runs about 20 times faster than a mini. That's right, 20 times.

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Neodym said:
Processor cycles available are plenty, plenty, plenty. Why would anyone want to bother having excess memory when the CPU is idling most of the time anyway? Especially when Apple specializes in optimizing resource usage to begin with.
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If processor cycles were plenty, plenty, plenty, why would Apple even offer the i7 option. Why would anyone buy a mac pro when the $600 mini has plenty of processor cycles?

Clearly some people actually use their computers for more than web browsing like you.

That's what people said when IDE controllers started to become soldered. Or USB controllers. Or graphic chips. Or CPU's. Or ...
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Total and complete BS. Nobody said that for any of those. I was buying computers since long before that and people were happy to save money on the peripheral boards, and you could always disable them in the firmware and add your own. But when they started taking away expansion slots, then people were raging.
 
The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming

...and this was such a cheery thread, in a bobbing turd filled sea of Bendgate vitriol. Way to go, Oracle.

;(
 
Oracle1729 said:
Total and complete BS. Nobody said that for any of those. I was buying computers since long before that and people were happy to save money on the peripheral boards, and you could always disable them in the firmware and add your own. But when they started taking away expansion slots, then people were raging.
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That's not entirely true. I remember when motherboard manufacturers started integrating low-end sound and graphics cards into the mobo itself, and there was some nasty complaining and bile spitting at the computer shows. People have always been, and will continue to be, angry at change.

That being said, I hope the RAM remains changeable, and the dual HD bays remain as well. But if they don't, all the more reason to hit ebay and pick up a quad-core last-gen model :)
 
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Oracle1729 said:
Reading not your strong suit? Let's keep this short and use small words then.

When you try to do something that pushes the processor on a mac mini, it overheats. It slows the CPU way down to prevent damage and let it cool. It runs very slow. And it sounds like a jet engine. It is only fast when you don't need the speed. There is easily at 20x speed difference at batch processing photos.



You really do need to work on those reading skills. The i7-4960x was to point out that the mini is nowhere near 80% of the top of the desktop (non-server) CPUs. My i7-3770 is in the same class price range as the mini i7 CPU, about 20% faster in specs (as you said). And the whole computer runs about 20 times faster than a mini. That's right, 20 times.
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You're pulling the 20 x figure out of your backside. No problem with my reading skills. Big problems with your ego.
 
Miat said:
Words of wisdom.

I am also seriously displeased with them sticking to only two TB2 ports in the 2016 revision of the nMini.

Typical Apple. Disappointing us well in advance. :mad:
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I am also annoyed that the terminator 3 liquid metal design was once again put off until the 2020 model. The 2020 model was supposed to contour itself into any shape it you wanted it to me just with a mere stare and think command. Which is allowed by owning apple watch and apple glasses that came out in 2018.

Well maybe the 2020 well finally have it all.
 
oneMadRssn said:
...People have always been, and will continue to be, angry at change.
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It's true, it's sadly part of the human psyche, but it is also good to distinguish between change for the benefit of the corporation (at the cost of the consumer) and change for the benefit of the consumer.

It can just as easily be said that people have always been, and will continue to be, excited at and optimistic about change. ;)

In fact, that is the entire premise of this site, although in practice it is used for both and everything in between.
 
As long as it is as fast as the last gen, and cheaper, or faster and the same price... Who cares what the form factor is. It won't be bigger or more expandable internally that's a promise.

I don't even care if it has 2 drive bays. I just want a 16gb ram 4core mini with an ssd for well under a grand. Then I will attach my external drive enclosure in the best way possible based on available ports.

Ordering on day one sight unseen.
 
wlossw said:
Ordering on day one sight unseen.
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So you are going to order online without looking at the pictures or are you going to have a friend doing it for you ? ;)

Interesting a few days ago people where wondering if we'd get to 4,000 and now we are within striking distance of 5,000
 
squirrrl said:
I'm fine with haswell... lower the price or up the storage specs and I'm good to go.
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As long as Iris Pro is an option I'm fine too. I would be willing to pay the price for it and I think others in this thread would also. If no Iris Pro I'll keep my present Mini and wait for next year and see what Broadwell small form factor PCs come up with.
 
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