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Re: Mac mini

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Post by cosmiccatnap »

whalesalad wrote: post #110
mceachen wrote: post #100

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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.

You are fortunate. That being said I've never had any issues with Linux myself so why take the risk if all you get in return is a bubbly GUI and some bloatware

Re: Mac mini

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Post by mm89 »

I broke my 2016 15" Macbook Pro display while attempting to replace the Macbook logo bezel (I know, stupid of me...).

Anyone have suggestions on what the best option is going forward? Looks like ~$700 to pay Apple to fix, less to DIY but that's a risk in itself, Apple trade-in would give me $310 with damage or $890 without damage (so basically the difference is price to repair).

The cheapest option is of course to not repair at all and just continue using the laptop with an external monitor.

Definitely want to stick with Apple. I only use this computer for DAW / home music studio.

Anyone been in a similar situation and what did you do?

Re: Mac mini

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Post by bradstewart »

dep_b wrote: post #69
bradstewart wrote: post #51

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This is honestly the thing I miss most while using macOS. The windows key search always seemed to work better than Spotlight.

I don't know what you like about it? When I use Windows I try to use it to find Control Panels to set up stuff and it does a horrible job at that. In macOS you'll find Disk Utility by typing "disk utility" in CMD+SPACE, even when you're on a different language system that has it's own name. I couldn't find anything in Windows even when that was the literal name of the panel. And hunting for formerly easy to find sett…

I generally have the opposite experience you've described--I can find exactly what I need in settings/Control Panel on Windows, but rarely on macOS. Could be that I'm just used to the names of things in Windows?

Realistically, they both get the job done.

Re: Mac mini

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Post by chx »

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.

That is only for cross OS FS work, the Linux FS speed is as good as native.

Yes, the /mnt/c situation is bad.

Re: Mac mini

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Post by larrik »

bluedino wrote: post #60
bzzzt wrote: post #54

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Yes, but since you can get 4k on everything from 24" to 84" you'll want to choose between more space or bigger fonts depending on the setting. macOS can do 'fractional scaling' when the integer scaling isn't to your preference, but the implementation works by rendering to a much higher resolution internally and then scaling down which needs a beefy GPU to run without noticeably overhead.

Anything bigger than 24" or so and the blurriness gets bad. The pixel density just isn't quite there.

Depends how close you are to it, though, I would think

Re: Mac mini

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Post by Hamuko »

_red wrote: post #29
mstolpm wrote: post #22

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They are, but I would only use one as a second device besides a real Mac. Setup and updates are relatively painless if you choose the right hardware and store additional kexts not on the system OS partition but the EFI boot partition. Biggest troubles are WIFI and Bluetooth (and therefore continuity, needs one of a few selected cards), graphics (no nVidia) and keyboard and trackpad (for desktops, use used Apple perip…

>Setup and updates are relatively painless if you choose the right hardware Agreed. But this is where "I'll pay an extra $200 to not have to worry about that" comes into the equation

I wish I could've bought my desktop tower from Apple for mere $200 extra.

Re: Mac mini

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Post by lwhsiao »

omni wrote: post #86
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.

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.

Out of curiosity, how do you measure its idle power?

Re: Mac mini

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Post by thirdsun »

reaperducer wrote: post #67
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…

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 I've been considering getting a Mac mini, but haven't committed yet. Can you tell me which NUCs run macOS so I comparison shop?

Don‘t. If you want macOS just bite the bullet and buy yourself a pretty carefree experience. If you don‘t care about the OS obviously get any of the countless affordable PC configurations.

Re: Mac mini

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

WaltPurvis wrote: post #138
chrisfinazzo wrote: post #61

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It probably doesn't, and in some sense, that's the problem. Really hoping that the next major redesign of this looks less like an Intel NUC and more like a slightly smaller Mac Pro. An actual mini tower! What a concept.

A "Mini Pro" is what I've been wanting from Apple forever (in tech years). Just a small tower with room for a graphics card and two or three SSD/NVMe drives. I'd be fine with paying Apple's customary 100+% hardware premium for something like that.

That's exactly what I want to.

Is there a Mini Pc that would be similar to this now?

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