To all the naysayers. They announced NEW MAC PRO. Coming soon and it will be a HUGE upgrade for power users. I can't wait!!!
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Why I think the Mac Pro could be done
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What? Link to this annoucment? Or are you taking the rumor as an official press release?
To make a good use of Mac Mini, people should follow Apple's instruction ... BYODKM
Or plug it in below TV rack for HTPC.
Making it a desktop computer paired with Apple Thunderbolt Display and all accesories hordes is way too ridicoulous.
The non portability of desktop, super low performance of laptop components, and way too high sum of prices for what you get.
One and only reason to compromise power with laptop components: Portability.
You dont get that .. the compromise worth nothing then.
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To make a good use of Mac Mini, people should follow Apple's instruction ... BYODKM
Or plug it in below TV rack for HTPC.
Making it a desktop computer paired with Apple Thunderbolt Display and all accesories hordes is way too ridicoulous.
The non portability of desktop, super low performance of laptop components, and way too high sum of prices for what you get.
One and only reason to compromise power with laptop components: Portability.
You dont get that .. the compromise worth nothing then.
Welcome back to PowerCube.
Mac mini is good enough for ordinary usage, such as surfing the internet, writing and reading emails, balancing the checkbooks, composing papers and books, light-weight programming, and so on.
I can make the above statement because I have a Mac mini at home (which replaced my qud-core i5 Windows machine) and use it when I am at home, while I have a 2010 hex-core Mac Pro in the office (both are used with ACDs). Although I feel a little more comfortable with the Mac Pro for ordinary usage, I am satisfied with the performance of the Mac mini.
For extraordinary usage (such as heavy numerical computation and simulation), the Mac mini is certainly non-suitable!
Mini can do much more than just that. There are many that install ESXi on it and use it to virtualise some vm's. Only thing you need are 16GB of mem and an ssd or some nfs/iscsi share. Great powerful small device that is very light in the power consumption department. Makes for a great virtualisation server at home!
that is one significant side of the mini that a lot of people overlook. It's very low power footprint adds up when you are talking about a few dozen PCs. If you run several hundred mini's in the place of standard desktops that adds up to real money.
At my previous employer we ran about one third minis, one third MBPs and one third Mac Pros. Some folks need power, some need portability, and some just need to get online and run a mail client.
I personally hope we get a revived Mac Pro with a new look and a sleeker design but all the power. I wouldnt be surprised if they killed it though. The only people I know that NEED a Mac Pro are 3d animators. i7 quad cores on a MBP or imac are decent enough for video.
Mac mini is tops (for me)
Don't go and slam the Mac mini. It all depends what the objectives of the owner are. Let me relate my story:
I'm a die-hard windows person, tried OS X and went back to windows 7. Don't like the upcoming 8 and skipped vista.
Have had about 19 or 20 laptops, lost count. Always got the biggest, fastest machine. Sometimes upgraded after 7, 8 months. Was required for the work I was doing. (big $$$)
Have trouble with eyesight - the screensize and glare on a laptop gives me problems. No longer need the grunt of powerfull CPU's, for me it is shoving data in and out of the CPU. Liked the look of the Mac mini so bought the 2010 base model. 2011 comes around and I needed to experiment with some more stuff so out went the 2010 and in came the 2011. Was unimpressed with the increase in performance, changed some software, CPU requirements dropped by 90%, sold the 2011 and bought an unused 2010 server.
For me this is the "ideal" machine: it is quiet (did I mention quiet?), it does not run hot so I can take it with me as hand luggage to the tropics and do not need to run it in an airconditioned environment (did I mention 40C - 45C in the shade?) It uses a hotel's TV or firm's monitor and all I plug in is the mains (wireless KB and mouse). I've got OS X on the second 7200 rpm 500GB drive and which is my backup drive for the 128 Gb SSD running windows 7. No need to carry stuff with me to restore anything. If Windows was to fail (and I have not seen a BSOD since XP SP2) I can always get onto the web using OS X.
Got VMware installed too - if push comes to shove I can run a windows backup under virtualisation. Never needed this in the last 10 years.
Worst case scenario is that my machine gets either a hardware fault or disappears. I'll walk over to the nearest Apple store and get another machine, install winclone and restore Windows from a miniature USB key that I carry with me. No problem in the overhead luggage compartments with other inconsiderate travellers forcing their overweight soft-sided luggage in (had more than a few laptops go south in that way). The mini is near indistructable. (By the way I've done over a million airmiles)
For me the MAC mini is a fine machine, yes it has its quirks but that it is silent allows me to concertrate on my work. That it is compact allows me to travel. That it does not have a screen allows me to use a large monitor or TV. That it is made of a solid block of aluminium gives it robustness to withstand abuse by ID10Ts. YMMV but it all depends on its intended use.
Don't go and slam the Mac mini. It all depends what the objectives of the owner are. Let me relate my story:
I'm a die-hard windows person, tried OS X and went back to windows 7. Don't like the upcoming 8 and skipped vista.
Have had about 19 or 20 laptops, lost count. Always got the biggest, fastest machine. Sometimes upgraded after 7, 8 months. Was required for the work I was doing. (big $$$)
Have trouble with eyesight - the screensize and glare on a laptop gives me problems. No longer need the grunt of powerfull CPU's, for me it is shoving data in and out of the CPU. Liked the look of the Mac mini so bought the 2010 base model. 2011 comes around and I needed to experiment with some more stuff so out went the 2010 and in came the 2011. Was unimpressed with the increase in performance, changed some software, CPU requirements dropped by 90%, sold the 2011 and bought an unused 2010 server.
For me this is the "ideal" machine: it is quiet (did I mention quiet?), it does not run hot so I can take it with me as hand luggage to the tropics and do not need to run it in an airconditioned environment (did I mention 40C - 45C in the shade?) It uses a hotel's TV or firm's monitor and all I plug in is the mains (wireless KB and mouse). I've got OS X on the second 7200 rpm 500GB drive and which is my backup drive for the 128 Gb SSD running windows 7. No need to carry stuff with me to restore anything. If Windows was to fail (and I have not seen a BSOD since XP SP2) I can always get onto the web using OS X.
Got VMware installed too - if push comes to shove I can run a windows backup under virtualisation. Never needed this in the last 10 years.
Worst case scenario is that my machine gets either a hardware fault or disappears. I'll walk over to the nearest Apple store and get another machine, install winclone and restore Windows from a miniature USB key that I carry with me. No problem in the overhead luggage compartments with other inconsiderate travellers forcing their overweight soft-sided luggage in (had more than a few laptops go south in that way). The mini is near indistructable. (By the way I've done over a million airmiles)
For me the MAC mini is a fine machine, yes it has its quirks but that it is silent allows me to concertrate on my work. That it is compact allows me to travel. That it does not have a screen allows me to use a large monitor or TV. That it is made of a solid block of aluminium gives it robustness to withstand abuse by ID10Ts. YMMV but it all depends on its intended use.