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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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OMG PLEASE announce the new mini today! I am on pins and needles! I cannot take the pressure!
Let's hope the new Mac Mini will have 16GB ram for the base model. It could be a nice candidate replacement for my 2018 Mac Mini.
I'm hoping for 16GB, but thinking it will be 12GB. But it won't matter if it doesn't get released soon!
And yet, another day goes by with no announcement of either event or m4 Mini. Tick tock...
The death of the sun is almost certainly coming.
12GB would be really stingy. Specially since it can't be upgraded >.<I'm hoping for 16GB, but thinking it will be 12GB. But it won't matter if it doesn't get released soon!
And yet, another day goes by with no announcement of either event or m4 Mini. Tick tock...
I had actually settled on an M4 Studio, but at 4x the cost of a base Mini, I am now considering if I could just get a Mini and live with that, and then upgrade again in a few years..
I wanted the Studio for video encoding, and gaming, but I am doing a lot of gaming through Geforce Now at the moment, and I could live with Mini for encoding (Heck, I do encoding on my 2011 i7 iMac at the moment).
I wanted the Studio for video encoding, and gaming, but I am doing a lot of gaming through Geforce Now at the moment, and I could live with Mini for encoding (Heck, I do encoding on my 2011 i7 iMac at the moment).
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I agree... but still NOT as stingy as the current 8GB!
Is that a reference to Dumb and Dumber Too? If so, well playedI agree... but still NOT as stingy as the current 8GB!
Although I would think that to be a proper reference, the AS should have been accentuated Where are all the Defenders of the Apple Realm who say 8GB is enough for most? Didn't Apple Marketing say an 8GB Mac is like using a 16GB PC? I tried to prove that by creating a 16GB VM on an 8GB Mac Mini. It didn't end well.I agree... but still NOT as stingy as the current 8GB!
I think those were people with light enough usage, that even if the system had to swap some ram, the performance hit won't be so big on them.
Honestly, for what I do *right now*, 8GB is on the very low end of acceptable.
However, I have zero confidence of the long term viability of buying a new Mini with only 8GB... I think that low amount of RAM will quickly become a liability (if not an outright blocker) in future MacOS updates. And I don't want to have to buy another Mini in 2-3 years just for that.
If you even turn on an 8GB Mac Mini with Sequoia then it starts compressing memory even before you run anything other than Activity Monitor.
Ten years ago I bought an iMac with 8GB of ram and within weeks I knew it was not enough.
The literal M4 MBP has already been stolen and is on hands of some people. If anything it would be the mini that‘s dragging things?
What delay? The original rumours were for fall 2024, and then the rumours were narrowed down to October/November 2024. It's still October.
Sometimes when major leaks like that happen, companies will postpone announcements, I figure as they figure out how bad the leak is and probably reconfigure the announcement a little.
Historically the Mac event of the year is usually by this time of October, give or take a week. However emails announcing the event almost always go out a couple weeks before the event. Historically only November event I can recall was was when the M1 chip was announced in 2020, although I reckon that is fairly recent, relatively speaking.
