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Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

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Post by garbageman »

drob518 wrote: post #91
KronisLV wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m currently hoping that my Intel Arc B580 doesn’t die on me cause even a 5060 Ti 16 GB has reached like 700 EUR price over here. I don’t think the prices will get better anytime soon. Same with my M1 Air for being on the move, even notebooks would be more expensive than they’re worth.

I’m milking my M1 Air, too. It’s still going strong, and I just can’t justify replacing it. Would love 64GB or more memory, though.

I got an essentially free upgrade from an M1 air to an M4 air and let me tell you...there is zero difference in day to day usage. You've got another 5+ years of headroom at least.

Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

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Post by user43928 »

Zylokloto wrote: post #34
mandarinclips wrote: post #28

I really want to buy one for coding/dev work, but it's just too expensive. Not sure if the M4 MacBook will get a price cut anytime soon.

You will not feel a difference in coding/dev work between M1 to M6 in a relevant manner.

Two years ago maybe, when I wrote code by hand.

Today development work is limited by compile times and test run times, particularly with UI tests in the iOS simulator.

Hardware on the development machine finally maters.

Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

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Post by leoc »

petu wrote: post #26
glimshe wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you adjust for inflation, is it a big change from the super cheap Mac Minis of the past? Probably still somewhat more expensive, but not as much as the nominal difference would imply.

Mac Mini M4 launched less than 2 years ago at $600 (US, $500 with edu discount; as low as $400 on general discounts). Now same config with M6 is $900.

And except at the beginning, the Mac Minis of the past weren’t famous for being cheap, but rather for being disappointingly, unattractively expensive and, over time, apparently increasingly forgotten by Apple.

Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

#117

Post by sceptic123 »

timpera wrote: post #49
jdoe1337halo wrote: post #11

So happy with my base M4 purchase for $499 when it released. I even snagged a 1TB replacement drive for $199 a year ago. Feels like I got the last train out.

Same thing for me! Got it with the education discount when it came out in 2024 and, although I've been pretty disappointed with macOS, it's crazy to see that the price increased by $300 in less than 2 years, with no sign of the price increases slowing down. What will happen once people are priced out of buying computers? I find this worrying.

Maybe they will have to use/repair/upgrade the ones they already own?

Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

#118

Post by matt-p »

wpm wrote: post #65
matt-p wrote: post #25

2.5Gbe as standard is nice.

About damn time, Gigabit ethernet started shipping on desktop Macs over 20 years ago.

Eh, for what? Most people use it only for 'internet' and 1G full duplex is generally still enough for that. Happy for 2.5G though :)
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