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Re: Mac mini

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Post by zootam »

greggman3 wrote: post #116
tabs_masterrace wrote: post #21

Still no real GPU. It's the reason I went back to a MacBook. What drew me in is the desktop class i7. At the time the Mini outperformed all other Macs in benchmarks, and it is noticeable and fast during compile times etc. Once you connect a 4k Screen (or even more screens), an eGPU becomes a must have. The integrated one just can't do smooth UI rendering. For example typing in IntelliJ always felt laggy, because it t…

MacBooks don't have real GPUs either (I assume you mean Macbook Pros). Running the default HDRP Unity scene on a MacBook Pro runs around 30fps, Running on a 3yr old Razer 1060 runs at 180fps. I use my MBP more than my Razer but I'm disappointed Apple no longer makes the power house laptops they used to.

the 15" macbook pro has a dedicated gpu, the mac mini only has integrated gpu.

Re: Mac mini

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Post by mrpippy »

klodolph wrote: post #2

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

Intel only allows ECC with Xeons, meaning a big price jump if nothing else.

Re: Mac mini

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

rblatz wrote: post #203
dr_kiszonka wrote: post #187

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Is there a Linux distribution that fully supports the desktop version of Office 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)? I would love to migrate to Linux, but need Office to work on papers and presentations with the rest of my lab. LibreOffice doesn't cut it. I tried Wine in the past and it was too buggy.

I’m pretty shocked you haven’t moved to either office 365 or google docs/sheets

Popular reference managers, e.g., Mendeley, EndNote, don't support them.

Re: Mac mini

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Post by oneplane »

slivanes wrote: post #170
oneplane wrote: post #165

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Like any manufacturer, they are trying to bring down the amount of breakage, and removing electrical connectors and mechanical connections is one way to do that. And when you want things to be smaller you don't really have much of a choice anyway. At the same time, the only reason those slots were there in the first place was so that a manufacturer could build one main board and then offer different configurations by…

If we're being really honest, it is for profit margins and planned obsolescence.

The electrical and structural design do account for marginal BOM costs but are hardly useful for some evil obsolescence plan. If only because nobody actually 'upgrades' their systems anymore. The mass market hasn't done that for 10+ years.

People often claim a ton of things but then actually don't have any background in the industry (either the engineering side or the high level planning side). Apply Hanlon's Razor instead of making everything that doesn't suit your context automatically be some evil plan.

Of course a company that stands to make a ton of money with a choice between to options that only marginally affect users will choose the ton of money option. It's just that in this case there is no ton of money.

Re: Mac mini

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Post by hugi »

nine_k wrote: post #225
hugi wrote: post #176

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If IntelliJ can't handle realtime rendering of text on modern hardware, perhaps the problem is with the software? My kid spilled a glass of water on my 2018 MacBook last year ( sob ). At that time, word was out about the 2019 MacBooks with the new keyboards, so I decided to hold out, took out an old 2012 Mac Mini and have been doing my (Java/Swift) development on it for the past few months. It works so well, I've bee…

Yes, the problem must be in software, but not that software. IntelliJ is quite fast for me both on Windows and on Linux, no typing lag.

IntelliJ is unusable on my Mac Mini hardware.

Re: Mac mini

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Post by nine_k »

hugi wrote: post #235
nine_k wrote: post #225

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Yes, the problem must be in software, but not that software. IntelliJ is quite fast for me both on Windows and on Linux, no typing lag.

IntelliJ is unusable on my Mac Mini hardware.

I'm afraid it's partly the problem of macOS and the Java implementation for it. That's what I meant speaking about "other" software.

Re: Mac mini

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Post by ta999999171 »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #187
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…

Is there a Linux distribution that fully supports the desktop version of Office 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)? I would love to migrate to Linux, but need Office to work on papers and presentations with the rest of my lab. LibreOffice doesn't cut it. I tried Wine in the past and it was too buggy.

Manjaro comes with them preinstalled, I believe.

Re: Mac mini

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Post by ta999999171 »

wtracy wrote: post #173
omni wrote: post #106

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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.

It appears that an OS X server can take any compatible printer and expose it to the network as a generic PostScript printer. Clients on the network only need to support PostScript, and the server handles everything device-specific. I've been tempted to buy a Mac for that alone. If there's any similar options for Linux, I would be very interested.

Can't Windows and Linux machines do this by "Sharing" the printer onto the network?

Re: Mac mini

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Post by izietto »

nine_k wrote: post #226
izietto wrote: post #136

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MacBooks are not desktops, they are laptops

Still they have much more area per unit of volume, so, a better way to dissipate heat. Minis are compact bricks, with much less surface.

So you're saying that the MacBook shape is more thermally efficient than the MacMini shape? Why don't they do MacMinis with the MacBook shape?

Re: Mac mini

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Post by omnimus »

izietto wrote: post #239
nine_k wrote: post #226

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Still they have much more area per unit of volume, so, a better way to dissipate heat. Minis are compact bricks, with much less surface.

So you're saying that the MacBook shape is more thermally efficient than the MacMini shape? Why don't they do MacMinis with the MacBook shape?

I am not sure what you don't understand. There is no way you can cram desktop grade cpu and gpu in such a small space. You could put laptop line of cpus + gpus there which are slower and probably shouldn't be run 24/7 (apples usecase is NAS). Or you put just desktop cpu which has ok integrated graphics already.
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