Who's excited for an ARM Mac mini?

[Boil]

Not at all. I have already written about the Cheesegrater 1.0 which lived for three years housing a PPC and for seven years housing Intel Xeons. The notion that you can't just pop a Xeon out of the Cheesegater 2.0 and drop-in a Xeon is an obvious fact. However, it is a huge leap in logic to then say that this precludes retention of the Cheesegrater 2.0 as the case for an Apple Silicon-based Mac Pro.

The Cheesegrater 2.0 case is an aluminum billet that can be lifted completely off the internals. There is nothing to prevent Apple from designing new ASi internals for the aluminum billet that gives the Cheesegrater 2.0 its nickname.

I never said CGv2.0 couldn't be used as a vessel for a future Apple silicon Mac Pro...

Previous poster was saying Apple planned to drop an Apple silicon SoC into the existing Xeon mobo, just because it has a CPU socket, which we all know is wrong...

All CGv2.0 needs to become an Apple silicon Mac Pro is a new mobo; the PSU & the entire remains of the chassis is still useful...

 

[Krevnik]

I hope they keep the case (2019 mac pro) I am not sure why or what you could fill it with in the ARM world but it sure looks pretty or maybe a cheesegrater minitower ....

As Boil points out, there’s no reason you can’t keep the chassis. It just needs a new motherboard design centered around an Apple chip.

 

[Tech198]

Yes and that could/might mean no upgradeable parts. It could be treated like an iPad, iPhone or Apple TV. You buy the configuration you want and that's it. It could also mean that Arm Mac OS updates might be treated like iOS, iPadOS and tvOS. Once Apple stops signing the update there's no going back.

That's already happening.. (2018) Storage is soldered in place I prefer the socketedRAM that is easy to get to on the 2012 models.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

That's already happening.. (2018) Storage is soldered in place and so is memory.

Hmm, I must have bought a special Mini back in 2018 because I bumped the RAM from a meager 8GB to 32GB.