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Finally! My 5 year old Mac mini is getting long in the tooth. I know most people aren't going to be excited but as a iOS dev the Mac mini makes a GREAT CI server.
This seems like a pretty important use case. Beside builds, are there other core iOS dev use cases like automated UI testing? I've only done a little bit of iOS development circa 2011.
If the SSD is user expandable, then its damn near perfect, but I get the feeling they pointed out the DIMM and not the SSD as replaceable.
It’s probably either soldered on or non-user replaceable NVMe, like their other portables.
I'd guess that, unlike the SO-DIMM change here, Apple will continue to vertically integrate their storage solutions across all products as they roll out things like this. So soldered NVMe is all you're going to see from this point on, I'd imagine.
Cloud providers will purchase loads of them. Curious to see pre-made server blades made from them.
Cloud providers will purchase loads of them. Curious to see pre-made server blades made from them.
Hmmm... no separate management network, no OOB management firmware, no ECC memory. It's not much of a general purpose blade. You're not going to run a farm of these without significant operational headaches.
10gbe, 64gb ram, they've gone full server farm with the mac mini. I like it.
Cloud providers will purchase loads of them. Curious to see pre-made server blades made from them.
Hmmm... no separate management network, no OOB management firmware, no ECC memory. It's not much of a general purpose blade. You're not going to run a farm of these without significant operational headaches.
If the SSD is user expandable, then its damn near perfect, but I get the feeling they pointed out the DIMM and not the SSD as replaceable.
Of course it's not user expandable, how they will make money. Very few people will buy 128GB version and SSD increase will have very premium cost, like usual. But you should be able to use external disks via thunderbolt if you want to.