That does seem ridiculous. The upgrade pricing is offensive. I wonder what it actually costs Apple to make a base machine, and what it costs them to go from 256 to 512GB of storage and from 16 to 32 GB of memory? You have to think the cost of those upgrades to Apple is tiny compared to the cost of making a base machine. I'm guessing that if the costs of upgrading things was cut in half, Apple would still be making a lot of money.
That’s if you can get away with 256gb storage, as I’ve said before the base SKUs are always best value but the only question is can you live with that little storage?
256 GB is tight for me, but I could live with it, considering I'm only using 170 GB at the moment, and some of that could be moved off. I'm using a 2 TB external SSD though for other stuff. However, I was just re-making the point that the pricing of the upgrades is harsh, because it made for a ridiculous situation in the comparison.
I just got this in the mail, I wasn't sure which color to get so I got both, the silver is the winner, looks like it is part of the mini, and the headphone port now looks like a power button
Interesting, though I don't understand the purpose.
🤷♂️ for $1 I rather not blow or use canned air, my 2012 mini had a lot of dust in the open ports, that was after 10 years but still lol
How dare you do what you want with your own system!!
I already lost the black headphone cover lol, so I wasn't gonna use that one anyway, I'll probably use the front USB C port once every few months, the headphone port neverHow dare you do what you want with your own system!!
No worries, and it is an interesting solution I never considered.
I use my ports too much and feel I would lose the caps lol
Now that it's later and the real-world reviews have come out, here's a good one where he reviews the base model M4:
Yep, don't think Steve would have liked those 'ports' on the front. Better to cover them up, haha.
Yep. but they thought they had broken the ground with the Studio. It's not the ports per se but the 'wires' from those ports.
YMMV, but the Pro was not tempting to me because it doesn’t have any more ports and because with the same 512 GB storage and 24 GB RAM, the M4 is still $400 cheaper. (And with 16 GB RAM, the M4 is $600 cheaper.)
The PowerMac G5 and Mac Pro 1,1 to 5,1 all had ports on the front. And those were all developed under Jobs' watch.
I didn't know that! Wow, Jobs must have relented. I remember him lovingly look at the Next cube and gushing over it's nearly unblemished perfection (except for the disk slot) ... he always looked at the side or front.
And the old Studio Display at the time (the 21" CRT) of the G3 and G4 PowerMacs had a built-in USB hub, which helped for port access. And those were hidden behind a flip-down door on the bottom side of the monitor.
I got a 27" 4K LG monitor and am pretty content with it. My previous monitor, which had always seemed fairly OK when using Windows, just wasn't very nice on my M1 mini.
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