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Re: Mac mini

#101

Post by mceachen »

whalesalad wrote: post #82
disease wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in a similar boat to you and am keeping an eye on WSL2 for Windows. It SEEMS like it could cover my entire dev workflow and have similar performance to MacOS/*nix, but then again I thought that the original WSL was going to do that as well ...

I started down that path. But when you install Windows 10 Pro and your login screen is covered in advertisements and news updates, it leaves a pretty shitty taste in your mouth.

Agreed, shitty, but those aren't hard to disable, and it's one of the first things I do on new installs.

(I only run windows to do cross-platform testing)

Re: Mac mini

#102

Post by StreamBright »

rvz wrote: 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, if you ignore the difference in terms of UI/UX. For me, MacOS is the killer feature. Hard to estimate the price but still worth to buy a Mac Mini over a NUC. Hackintosh is not something I would like to waste time on.

Re: Mac mini

#103

Post by mceachen »

chvid wrote: post #84

So much naysaying here. The Mac Minis are excellent for certain use cases (like a home server) and they last forever. Great that Apple is updating them regularly.

They used to last forever, because you could replace the failing parts that wear out, like the hard drive.

Then they soldered the SSD onto the motherboard.

Re: Mac mini

#104

Post by jiveturkey »

LOL at the row of 10 of them, about 2/3 down the page. Those things would catch fire in about 5 seconds. You'd have to be blowing high pressure ice cold air at the intake side to even hope keeping them running at that density.

Re: Mac mini

#105

Post by dzonga »

apple, they have a pro phone without 3.5mm headphone jack. n a pro ipad too. But quick to highlight a 3.5mm headphone jack on the new mac mini. the new mac mini looks like a wonderful machine though. glad they doing the long needed upgrades.

Re: Mac mini

#106

Post by omni »

chvid wrote: post #94
omni wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Intel NUCs are even better for home server use cases. Similar form factor, much cheaper, and you can put your own memory and storage in them. Just built my own last week and it idles at 5W, it's great.

There is no Mac OS X and Apple's service/warranty. Also if you try to match the boxes spec by spec; the Mini are usually not that much more.

What sort of home server use cases do people need OS X for? The only thing I could think of is running an Xcode build server but that seems quite niche.

Re: Mac mini

#107

Post by izietto »

stephenr wrote: post #83
MisterTea wrote: post #78

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kinda negates the whole mini part.

I never understand this argument. If you "want" a mid-level "box with slots", that's going to be bigger anyway.

I don't think that's the point: if you can ship 16" MacBook Pros with dedicated GPU you could do the same with MacMini; why don't you give me such option? ("you" stands for "Apple" here btw)

Re: Mac mini

#108

Post by muratsu »

yetanotherme wrote: post #87
boredpudding wrote: post #80

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What are you currently missing with the current WSL?

filesystem performance is absolutely horrible, which affects lots of workflows.

If you create the files on the linux side as compared to shared windows folder, the performance seems to be good for me. Before vscode wsl plugin, the only way to work was to open files from windows and use the linux cli but the plugin made it so that you can stream files from the linux, which removed the need for using any shared drive for me. Perf bonus of switching to linux only workflow was significant, you should give it a try.

Re: Mac mini

#109

Post by microtonal »

kristiandupont wrote: post #99
stephenr wrote: post #73

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... I think you've missed the point. It isn't running at 1080p. It's doing "@2x" pixel rendering (commonly called "Retina") - so it uses 4 physical pixels to render one "screen" pixel, giving you much crisper.. everything.

..crisper as in more visibly pixelated? What is the point in that?

It is not more pixelated. It's like scaling up all fonts and widgets by 2x, but still rendering them at 4k. So, the fonts and widgets are retina-sharp. Imagine using 4k as the resolution, but rendering all 14pt fonts as 28pt.

Though I get why you might think it's pixelated from stephenr's description.

Re: Mac mini

#110

Post by whalesalad »

mceachen wrote: post #100
whalesalad wrote: post #70

Still got my fingers crossed for a desktop machine that isn’t a Mac Pro and isn’t a Mac Mini. Would love iMac Pro firepower without being tied to a set display. I’ve been alive 30 years. A good portion of that was growing up as a PC user, overclocker, teenage hacker, etc. My professional career however has been on Unix and MacOS, and as much as I try to get back to desktop Linux and open source OS’s I just find them…

Installing and applying security updates on a Linux desktop is fairly automatic and uneventful. Keeping a hackintosh updated (for even stuff like graphics card drivers) turns out to be a lot of time doing research, scrolling through endless forum posts, and bricking your install quarterly because you "did the wrong thing" (like absent-mindedly accepting a security update notification). Yes, you can get it running. Bu…

> But macOS is buggy enough as it is

I really do not understand this sentiment at all. Mind you, I am decidedly on Mojave. I am not discounting the experience of others, but macOS has been rock stable for me since about Leopard. I had kernel panics back on Tiger, but that was their first OS for x86 so I can forgive that.

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