The $699 model + the SSD upgrade sums up to a whooping $899. I like the form-faktor and all, but really, with 900 bucks i am sticking to my custom ITX builds
Show us some of your builds!
Apple Mac Mini
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#52whoever comes to hacker news and upvotes all and any minor apple launches should be ashamed.
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#53Despite the HDMI port and 2xThunderbolt ports, still maxes out at two monitors rather than three... guess Iris Pro would have been required for triple-head support.
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#54The $699 model + the SSD upgrade sums up to a whooping $899. I like the form-faktor and all, but really, with 900 bucks i am sticking to my custom ITX builds
Show us some of your builds!
The case i use is the Cooltek Coolcube Mini, photos and specs here: http://www.cooltek.de/en/cubes/coolcube-mini/14/coolcube-min...
Obviously it is larger than the mac mini, but still small enough to put on your desk.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Correct. Yesterday a the entry Mac Mini was $599 and had a 2.5GHz dual-core i5 with 4GB of RAM.
I hate the Intel nomenclature break on mobile vs desktop. On desktops, Celeron is dual core, i3 is dual core with hyperthreading, i5 is quad core, and i7 is quad core with hyperthreading. On the other front, they mix random clock values and core counts across skews so you never know if your i7 is a quad core with hyperthreading (4750Q for example) or a low power dual core (4700U) because there the suffixes on the par…
To be fair, the i3/i5/i7 brand is for consumers ("i7 is better than i5"), and the "4750Q" is for OEMs.
Remember: you're not Intel's customer, you're Apple's customer.
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#56Any idea if the harddisk is user upgradeable?
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#57The $699 model + the SSD upgrade sums up to a whooping $899. I like the form-faktor and all, but really, with 900 bucks i am sticking to my custom ITX builds
Kind of off topic, but I just purchased a used Mac Mini (2012 model i5 2.5Ghz) that the previous owner upgraded to 16GB for $575.
When I first heard they announced the new Mac Mini today I was worried that I should have waited, but it looks like in the end I got a great deal since there doesn't seem to be a huge performance boost. I only plan to use it for iOS development purposes.
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#58Not a bad price until you see it costs $300 to go from 4GB RAM to 16GB RAM. Do these have user-upgradeable RAM? I can buy RAM a lot cheaper than that.
It looks like the physical design is the same as the late 2012, which on mine has a screw top "bottom" (until moments ago I had it upside down...always thinking that screen top was the top) that reveals a couple of so-dimm ports. I am extremely surprised they didn't go Broadwell given that Intel is just starting to put those out in volume.
Exactly, Broadwell would also allow passive or almost silent operation. The new NUCs in Q1/15 look more promising than this.
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#59I seriously do not understand how can it ship with a 500GB 5400rpm drive by default. This gives such poor experience to the user that Apple should have opted for all-ssd approach two generations ago. Very disappointed by that.
Maybe a lot of people are using these as media machines? That requires a lot of space, and not much speed.
Another popular use case is as a server.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree - a 128gb ssd would have been better than that and cost roughly the same.
Better for some uses... one of the major use cases for the mini is for media storage or file sharing, in which case I'd gladly trade speed for space.
then why 5400k? At work (90% mac shop) we are just looking at what to do for a central server. Apple isn't supporting that market very well - they need a shuttle sff size mac midi that uses full fat non mobile parts.
The gen 8 HP micro severs are just so much better