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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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yes it has,
the mini is coming
I would fell better about it if there were some leaks.
Shouldn't we be seeing some in the refurb store before the 16th? So far nothing!
My guess is the mini will die.....replaced by this hybrid ipad pro (running ios and osx)
My guess is the mini will die.....replaced by this hybrid ipad pro (running ios and osx)
I can't wait , do you think the new one will have a bigger hd ?
I've filled my 256ssd/750g up with iTunes alone !
Plus my backup drive a 6tb is almost filled now , lol
I've filled my 256ssd/750g up with iTunes alone !
Plus my backup drive a 6tb is almost filled now , lol
Take a cue from the Mac Pro….. somewhat modest on-board SSD, with large storage needs being taken care of using external drives. With Thunderbolt and USB 3 it makes sense.
How come folks need so much memory? Some must be hoarding a heap of useless stuff.
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When I first bought my movies on iTunes they were small and in SD , now the HD ones are much bigger - a hundred of those ( films, tv shows etc etc ) and there goes your hd !
People's needs are different.
For example, the files created when doing a build of one my games can exceed 0.5GB, and that is just for an app that will be less than 30MB on the App Store. That is not all the files, just the ones automatically created by pressing build.
I create a lot more sound effects than will make it into the game. The uncompressed files I work with soon take up multiple GB.
All the files associated with a single game have exceeded 60GB, excluding old backups on an external disk.
My needs use quite a lot of space, but others will need much more. Someone mentioned the size of HD movies. Imagine the size of the uncompressed files used to create the movie, and there will be much more footage than makes the final cut.
What makes more sense is what's achievable currently, ie the SSD of your choosing for system/apps/workfiles and a big bastard HDD for 'storage at hand', both within the mini enclosure. Plus external drive(s) for 'proper storage' and backup, of course.
Going with the way too long theme... Bringing back the Mac Qube would be a cute contrast in shape to the cylindrical Pro. There would be space for dedicated graphics as well as 3.5" HDD to handle larger storage requirements than the currently offered 2.5" drives. Maybe space for 2 3.5 HDDs for Raid 1 as a server, handy for all those MBA and MBs that have only small flash storage. Could still keep the Fusion option. Dunno. Just guessing here. Interested to see what Thursday brings. But it has been way too long since Apple has offered a non-AIO desktop.
They will absolutely NOT build a computer around enough space for 3.5 spinners. NO WAY IN HELL.
Come Thursday, you will see I am right. Large storage needs are best served by external, see New Mac Pro.
Down with Tuesday! Up with Thursday!
I'm certainly not betting the farm on Apple building a new computer with 3.5" drives.
To the contrary, I just bought a TS-251 NAS expecting my next computer would have a 256-512gb SSD, such as MBA. I'm not sure how many home users want to drop $500+ into a NAS when simply having a larger capacity HDD in their primary computer would work. A 3Tb iMac is sufficient for most users. A 1Tb Mini isn't enough.On my mini the iTunes library is a little over 250GM. The largest Apperture library is about 100GB. iPhoto weighs in at around 50GB. By this point a 500GB SSD is too small. That's why I use 960GB M500s on my Macs.
Photography takes up about 3TB on a 4TB HDD. Media including lots of DVDs and a bunch of Blu-rays uses a little more than half of a 4TB HDD.
If you don't store much that's fine but there are others of us who have lots of data we want to keep. Movies and Hi-Def music I've purchased might be useless stuff to you but they're important data to me.
This was on page one of THIS site
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7nx4wqezbhzn1g/Screenshot 2014-10-11 14.29.11.png?dl=0
I think we all know what this means
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7nx4wqezbhzn1g/Screenshot 2014-10-11 14.29.11.png?dl=0
I think we all know what this means
I'm certainly not betting the farm on Apple building a new computer with 3.5" drives.
The price of SSD's has been getting downright reasonable. 512GB is a sweet spot.
People who actually NEED more space should learn a little bit and get external. I have had a hundred clients back when I was in support, and to a ONE, none had filled up a 512GB spinner. Most barely filled up 30%.
At the current rate, 1TB SSD will be a sweet spot soon enough.
May all our SSD's be PCIe! (except for external, of course) BTW, I forgot, I just bought an external Crucial MX100 512GB for about 229. Way cool.
Speed wins every time. Having to work on people's slow computers eventually caused me to get out of that business.
In a sadistic way a small part of me hopes that Apple doesn't release a new Mac Mini at any of the upcoming events just so that I can see the huge explosion of emotional posts ranting about it.
we would certainly go beyond 5000 posts on this thread if that happens.
The mini is coming
!!
Why do you say that? What is wrong with a Haswell chip? Because it's not fanless?
You know, I once used Vista. For 15 minutes. It was not so bad
Or maybe I was just setting it up on a client laptop they had just purchased.
And I never heard back. So, either it worked, or they killed themselves.
I stay with my idea. The real absolute most somewhat likely reason the mini has not come forth is because we were thinking Tuesday when we should have been thinking Thursday
What I am hoping for
Actually, the Gigabyte Brix Pro i5 is the perfect mac mini:
- 4 USB 3 ports
- integrated Intel HD Iris Pro 5200 graphics (excellent)
- Haswell i5 (good compromise of performance and moderate power consumption)
- standard m-sata connector for SSD
- SATA connector for 2.5" HDD or SSD (yes, I do want that)
- half-size mini PCIe WiFi/BT module
- Ethernet port
- two RAM slots (up to 16 GB)
This system allows me to use commodity PC components, which is great.
What Apple could bring to the table:
- better thermal design, better fan
- PCIe SSD (good for performance, bad because proprietary)
- Broadwell chips (would bring a little better performance and perhaps significantly less power)
- Thunderbolt (I couldn't care less)
What Apple could do to screw it up:
- soldered RAM
- no additional SATA bay
- only one or two USB 3 ports
- proprietary SSD
- no Ethernet port
Will they do it? If yes, I am buying it. If no, I am buying the Gigabyte and going hackintosh.
Actually, the Gigabyte Brix Pro i5 is the perfect mac mini:
- 4 USB 3 ports
- integrated Intel HD Iris Pro 5200 graphics (excellent)
- Haswell i5 (good compromise of performance and moderate power consumption)
- standard m-sata connector for SSD
- SATA connector for 2.5" HDD or SSD (yes, I do want that)
- half-size mini PCIe WiFi/BT module
- Ethernet port
- two RAM slots (up to 16 GB)
This system allows me to use commodity PC components, which is great.
What Apple could bring to the table:
- better thermal design, better fan
- PCIe SSD (good for performance, bad because proprietary)
- Broadwell chips (would bring a little better performance and perhaps significantly less power)
- Thunderbolt (I couldn't care less)
What Apple could do to screw it up:
- soldered RAM
- no additional SATA bay
- only one or two USB 3 ports
- proprietary SSD
- no Ethernet port
Will they do it? If yes, I am buying it. If no, I am buying the Gigabyte and going hackintosh.