2018 Mac Mini Review • Hacker News Board

Re: 2018 Mac Mini Review

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Post by robertsd247 » Mon, Nov 12, 2018, 2:18 PM UTC

douglaswlance wrote: post #362

robertsd247 wrote: post #308

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Fair enough, but it "values" the Mac Mini at $799 with a year-old i3 and 8GB of RAM? It valued the last one at $499 and it was 5 years old. I guess what the market will bear is really true...for Apple.

It's not about how much Apple values their products. Value-based pricing is based on how much value the customer gets out of the product.

The customer will not get $799 of value out of a Mac Mini. It will be made obsolete by Apple before that happens. Especially if Apple takes another 4 years to release the next one.

Re: 2018 Mac Mini Review

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Post by malloryerik » Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 4:15 AM UTC

wild_preference wrote: post #426

copperx wrote: post #408

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If you remap CapsLock to Esc, what key do you use for Control for doing Control A, Control E, Control K, Control Y, Control N, and Control P in every application?

I tried to address this in my parentheses, but Karabiner specifically lets you bind CapsLock to both: Esc when tapped alone, and Ctrl when held down in combination with other keys. And your post also answers you sibling comment: Ctrl modifier is useful outside of just Emacs. Try it out. I believe the API changed in the macOS release before Mojave, so they relaunched Karabiner under the name Karabiner Elements. This o…

This isn't working for me in Mojave; you haven't had a problem?

Re: 2018 Mac Mini Review

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Post by Roboprog » Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 12:04 AM UTC

Applejinx wrote: post #636

Roboprog wrote: post #576

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And it still has real USB A ports so you don’t have to hop your audio interface through a C to A dongle thing. Though I don’t know if a C->A adapter is just rerouting wires, or has circuits with their own latency - either way, it’s a bit of mess you don’t need with one of these. (Assuming you use a typical USB A audio interface rather than something more exotic) FWIW, I also do electronic music, though just as a hobb…

Nah, my audio interface is more exotic. Thunderbolt MOTU 16 channel in and out, 192k/24. So I love that it has so many thunderbolt ports, because they're spoken for. I think you might well be able to run two MOTU 16As and have 32 in, 32 out. You'd start to have issues with drive space but the computer can probably handle it.

"more exotic" :-)

OK, hardcore studio level stuff.

Yeah, that's a bit beyond my hobby "Behringer" type stuff. Recently upgraded from 2-in/4-out to 4-in/4-out. Still plenty of bandwidth on USB 2 for that.