Has the mini server gone away? I don't see it mentioned.
Probably a bad sign that this 404s: https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/server/
Apple Mac Mini
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Re: Apple Mac Mini
#82Not 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.
Maybe I am misremembering, but didn't Intel yank some of the early broadwell models due to the TSX thing?
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#83The $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.
I just went out and picked up 2012 model core i7, since I wanted quad core for server usage. The new model (dual core) isn't especially appealing.
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#84This is a credible answer for our new default developer machine, now that it has 2 Thunderbolt ports, but it doesn't seem cheap enough. We want dual 27" 2560 x 1440 displays, 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB fusion drive. This is for Rails development, so we're not taxing the CPU or GPU, although we do run parallel_rspec and parallel_cucumber, so more cores are helpful.
The 27" iMac is $2199 + $399 for this Monoprice monitor w/ DisplayPort " rel="nofollow">http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=113&cp_id=11307&cs_id=..., for a total of $2598. This has a 3.2GHz i5 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M 1GB GDDR5.
The new Mac Mini with 3 GHz i7, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB fusion drive, keyboard and trackpad is $1537 + 2 x $399 for the monitors = $2335.
I'm not convinced saving $263 is worth going from 4 cores to 2, and presumably a worse graphics card.
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#85I'm slightly bummed that I can't get SSD on their starting model, and have to force myself to a fusion drive if I want to do better than hard drive.
Also realize that the Fusion Drive price includes $50 to upgrade from 500 GB to 1 TB drive. Which is like a $20 part difference.
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#86This is a credible answer for our new default developer machine, now that it has 2 Thunderbolt ports, but it doesn't seem cheap enough. We want dual 27" 2560 x 1440 displays, 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB fusion drive. This is for Rails development, so we're not taxing the CPU or GPU, although we do run parallel_rspec and parallel_cucumber, so more cores are helpful. The 27" iMac is $2199 + $399 for this Monoprice monitor…
You don't tax the CPU, but you want to pay an extra $200 for a build-to-order option to bump the CPU by 0.2 GHz?
How about getting the mid-tier 2.6 GHz Mac mini, with 16 GB RAM, 1 TB Fusion Drive, keyboard, and trackpad for $1,237? Then you'll be saving an additional $300, for a total of $563 in savings.
If you want to save a little more, don't buy additional memory from Apple, buy it from Crucial or another vendor instead. You'll pay less than $200 for 16 GB of RAM (which is what Apple charges to bump from 8 GB to 16 GB), plus you'll have the 8 GB of RAM that is pre-installed in the machine, which you can sell, if you want.
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe a lot of people are using these as media machines? That requires a lot of space, and not much speed.
Then why not the current p/GB sweet spot, a 3TB disk?
There are no 2.5" 3TB drives, and even if one existed, it would be 12.5mm (or more), which may be too thick for Mac mini (standard 2.5" drive thickness is 9.5mm).
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#88BTO option is now a dual core i7 (3Ghz), vs previous model's BTO option of a quad core i7 (2.3Ghz). I wonder what the performance difference is between the two.
which is totally insane.
Yes, let's alienate the group of people who build 3rd party software and want a reasonably priced headless mac, and user upgradeable memory/HDD. Idiots.
$100+ billion in cash or marketable securities and total spite for the dev/performance market. Just blind arrogance at this point - 'we don't need to offer this option anymore'
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#89A disappointing update, but would still consider it to replace my mid 2010 Core2Duo mini if the Thunderbolt ports supported Multistream Transport (MST) so I could daisychain 3 x Dell U2415 19x12 displays.
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#90BTO option is now a dual core i7 (3Ghz), vs previous model's BTO option of a quad core i7 (2.3Ghz). I wonder what the performance difference is between the two.
which is totally insane. Yes, let's alienate the group of people who build 3rd party software and want a reasonably priced headless mac, and user upgradeable memory/HDD. Idiots. $100+ billion in cash or marketable securities and total spite for the dev/performance market. Just blind arrogance at this point - 'we don't need to offer this option anymore'
Yes the spite is on Apple's side…
I suggest you take a breath, and maybe a walk. This is not worth getting angry about.