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Re: New Mac Mini with M4

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I want to buy one of these and run it headless as a plex server and a few other things. It can handle multiple transcodes without sweat.

Is there a solution to log in to the OS GUI over wifi (like from an ipad or mac) if I need to use it as a computer? It won’t have a screen attached.

Re: New Mac Mini with M4

#132

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M4 MacBook Air is rumored for the spring. Last announcement tomorrow is rumored to be the MacBook Pros.

Seems weird to stagger it like that, unless they have a huge amount of M3 Air stock they're hoping to shift over the holidays.

The M3 airs came out in March of this year, so it’s a bit soon.

Re: New Mac Mini with M4

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Are these games available on OSX? Or are you somehow booting Windows? (Apologies if this seems like a stupid question. I've not played games for a very long time, mainly because most stuff doesn't seem to be available on Macs).

Yes — World of Warcraft, League of Legends and DotA 2 all have native macOS ports. WoW got an Apple Silicon port relatively recently IIRC (last expansion).

WoW was probably the first game that was ported to the ARM architecture (2020), so it's not that recent.

Re: New Mac Mini with M4

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16GB base RAM across the board, following the iMac. AI is certainly good for pushing up the baseline RAM that manufacturers can get away with shipping if nothing else.

It's not just RAM.

It's Unified RAM. So that memory is also used for the GPU & Neural Cores (which is for Apple Intelligence).

This is actually why companies moved away from the unified memory arch decades ago.

It'll be interesting to see as AI continues to advance, if Apple is forced to depart from their unified memory architecture due to growing GPU memory needs.

Re: New Mac Mini with M4

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Are these games available on OSX? Or are you somehow booting Windows? (Apologies if this seems like a stupid question. I've not played games for a very long time, mainly because most stuff doesn't seem to be available on Macs).

All those games listed have native Apple Silicon Mac ports now.

Only WoW, LoL and Dota are being translated through the Rosetta.

Re: New Mac Mini with M4

#137

I want to buy one of these and run it headless as a plex server and a few other things. It can handle multiple transcodes without sweat. Is there a solution to log in to the OS GUI over wifi (like from an ipad or mac) if I need to use it as a computer? It won’t have a screen attached.

https://remotedesktop.google.com/

Re: New Mac Mini with M4

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Positives: + form factor + ARM/Apple silicon/SoC Negatives: - Apple tax on memory, storage - non-upgradeable - Apple tax on 1GbE to 10 GbE ($100 surcharge lol) - maxes out at 64G of configurable memory w/ m4 pro Got to give it to Apple. The traunches between different configuration levels is “small” enough to convince buyers to enter the next level. It’s like “hey, you are already at $4000 for m4 pro with 64g. Just s…

I'm at the point where I wonder what my options are for unauthorized capacity-expanding repairs.
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