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#2ECC would be cool for using these for remote builds. Don't know if that's ever going to happen.
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#3$800 for an quad-core i3 with 8GB, 256GB and the lovely T2 chip.
Business as usual for Apple...
In recent years they became an Intel but without an AMD in sight, they do it because they can.
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#4Looks nice. I wish they would use numbers on these things, though. It's difficult to find support when searching "mac mini" could bring back results from multiple generations of different hardware and software.
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#5The Mac Minis are still expensive and underwhelming (even when maxed out) when compared with the top of the range NUCs with even AMD GPUs. The Skull and Ghost Canyon NUCs are great for Linux CIs or building large projects or I could even go far to either Hackintosh a few NUCs to surpass the need to buy a Mac Mini anyway for next 5 years.
Thanks, but I would skip this Mac Mini and go for the latest maxed out NUC instead.
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#6Only up to 6-core 8th generation CPUs, and it looks like the base 6-core SKU is the i5-8500, which doesn’t have Hyperthreading. Ouch.
It’s such a shame that’s the best Intel can do in that thermal envelope.
AMD is about to ship Ryzen 4000 mobile chips with lower TDP, great integrated graphics, higher clock speeds and more cores. It would have worked fine in the Mac mini. Imagine how good the desktop APUs will be when those come out.
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#7Anyone has experience with Mac Mini + eGPU combo and can share a bit about it (e.g. as alternative to Mac Pro or iMac?)
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#8The Mac Minis are still expensive and underwhelming (even when maxed out) when compared with the top of the range NUCs with even AMD GPUs. The Skull and Ghost Canyon NUCs are great for Linux CIs or building large projects or I could even go far to either Hackintosh a few NUCs to surpass the need to buy a Mac Mini anyway for next 5 years. Thanks, but I would skip this Mac Mini and go for the latest maxed out NUC inste…
True, but a more charitable take is that the high price goes to subsidize macOS development.
Having just moved to a Windows 10 shop running on cheapest-possible Dell hotdesking workstations, I’m starting to miss macOS and all its command-spacebar glory!
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#9You need something more powerful than this Mac Mini just to be able to scroll that webpage.
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#10You need something more powerful than this Mac Mini just to be able to scroll that webpage.
That couldn't be more wrong.