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Re: Mac mini

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The 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…

Are Hackintosh a practical reality? (genuine question)

Re: Mac mini

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post #9

You need something more powerful than this Mac Mini just to be able to scroll that webpage.

This is not true - even a 10 year old MBA handles it fine. Try disabling your extensions – especially any ad blockers which aren't simple domain blocking.

Re: Mac mini

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post #5

The 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!

But people often speculative that macOS development is on the back burner these days. Release to release they have not seemed to add much of use in a long time. They keep introducing new limitations on apps and deprecating stuff. That has questionable utility if your goal is to get work done.

Of course Windows 10 is also in bad shape.

Re: Mac mini

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post #2

ECC would be cool for using these for remote builds. Don't know if that's ever going to happen.

Absolutely an ECC would be great and cool. However, I'm not sure if Apple is going to provide ECC memory since they already do with Mac Pro's and they might want people to just buy a Mac Pro instead of Mac Mini.

Re: Mac mini

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Any music production geeks have a recommendation on whether a relatively maxed out new Mac Mini could be a worthy DAW? Keep in mind I need macOS to use Logic, and don't want the hassle of a Hackintosh.

Re: Mac mini

#16
post #15

Any music production geeks have a recommendation on whether a relatively maxed out new Mac Mini could be a worthy DAW? Keep in mind I need macOS to use Logic, and don't want the hassle of a Hackintosh.

more than easily. Fantastic albums have been made with way less CPU / Mem grunt than these new Mac minis.

Re: Mac mini

#17
post #5

The 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!

Try pressing the windows key (granted, it's not as pretty as Spotlight).

Re: Mac mini

#18

Looks 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.

They use the year and a model number, but not in the marketing. Everymac is a good resource: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/index-macmini.ht...

Re: Mac mini

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post #11
post #5

The 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…

Are Hackintosh a practical reality? (genuine question)

In the last couple years, yes. But Apple has been playing the long game and tightening the noose in order to pull the rug on all Hackintoshs one day.

Re: Mac mini

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$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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