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Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by guestbest »

Nextgrid wrote: post #66
crypt1d wrote: post #7

disappointed to see them still selling these with 8gb RAM. More than a dozen chrome tabs and a few discord servers has been enough to crash/significantly slow down my m1 mac mini edit: the ad says up to 24/32GB of ram, but seems like 8gb/16gb models are the only ones available for pre-order at the moment.

> More than a dozen chrome tabs and a few discord servers has been enough to crash/significantly slow down my m1 Mac mini On the other hand, maybe there should be pushback against shitty inefficient software? I remember a decade ago being able to have a dozen browser tabs and instant messaging clients on 4GB of RAM just fine, and neither the web nor instant messaging experience has changed significantly enough to war…

I’m using a M1 and it is very performant with Brave and unlock origin with only 8gb ram and XCode opening in the background. I try to stay away from Discord and Slack on the desktop as years ago they would cause my system to slow down

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by isolli »

coredog64 wrote: post #89
Kerrick wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With a desktop device, the classic filesystem packrat might be best off just buying an external HDD with double-digit TB worth of storage and leaving it plugged in all the time.

That presupposes that the user knows how to deal with that. I did it for my wife’s current Mac Mini and never again. Photos is all janky and anything that causes an inconvenience is my fault.

So you're answering my question here with a no?

"Is it realistic to have an external drive for photos that integrates seamlessly with the native Photos app?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34413791

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by fckgw »

wyager wrote: post #72

Anyone know if the cheap model can handle 4k60 444 10bit over HDMI? "4k 60hz" is almost meaningless without more information. There are some reddit threads where people have issues with 4k60 444 10b on the (now) previous gen mac mini. If they've fixed that, I would consider using this as an HTPC (as Otpimus and Movist are the only desktop video players I've found that seem to actually fully support HDR, my windows bo…

The new model has been upgraded to HDMI 2.1 as opposed to HDMI 2.0 on the M1 model. Not sure if that helps or not.

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by fckgw »

highwaylights wrote: post #109
bilal4hmed wrote: post #4

can this run dual monitors?

Yes, but you need to pay the extra $700 for the Pro to add a third display unfortunately. There's hacky third party solutions to this, but they all involve giving questionable applications permission to record all your screens.

This has never been the case for the Mac Mini.

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by coder543 »

isolli wrote: post #102
coder543 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the plus side, with a desktop like this that isn't going to be moving frequently, there's really no compelling need to upgrade the internal storage. You could attach an external 1TB (or bigger!) NVMe SSD and you should be able to install macOS on that. You could just use the internal SSD as an extra storage drive. AFAIK, you're not required to use the internal SSD at all.

Is it realistic to have an external drive for photos that integrates seamlessly with the native Photos app?

If macOS is installed on it, Photos won’t even think of it as an external drive.

However, yes, you can: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201517

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by tyingq »

crypt1d wrote: post #7

disappointed to see them still selling these with 8gb RAM. More than a dozen chrome tabs and a few discord servers has been enough to crash/significantly slow down my m1 mac mini edit: the ad says up to 24/32GB of ram, but seems like 8gb/16gb models are the only ones available for pre-order at the moment.

Maybe people still want 8gb models for affordable-ish CI/CD runner farms?

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by wrldos »

Tepix wrote: post #58
lvl102 wrote: post #45

Why get the M2 Pro Mini when you can just opt for Mac Studio with M1 Max? They're roughly in the same price bracket.

If you need 32GB in your Mac Mini the price difference is $1999 for the Mac Studio vs $1699 for the Mac Mini M2 Pro 32GB. Indeed that's a tough sell for the Mac Mini. It shows how much Apple is charging extra for those capacity upgrades.

The big thing is the Mac Studio is an out of box config and the M2 Pro is custom. It's risky relying on custom Apple configs from experience as the turnaround for repairs is much longer.

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by [deleted] »

coredog64 wrote: post #89
Kerrick wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With a desktop device, the classic filesystem packrat might be best off just buying an external HDD with double-digit TB worth of storage and leaving it plugged in all the time.

That presupposes that the user knows how to deal with that. I did it for my wife’s current Mac Mini and never again. Photos is all janky and anything that causes an inconvenience is my fault.

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Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by jmull »

ErneX wrote: post #90

A M2 Pro Mini with a few spec bumps puts it at a similar price than a M1 Max Studio. I was waiting for the Mini refresh but now I think I'll just wait for the Studio refresh and get one with M2 Max.

With the Pro Mini, I wonder if the lower-end of the Studio "moves up"... $X00 more, but with an M2 not available on the mini?

Re: New Mac Mini

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Post by ceejayoz »

gymbeaux wrote: post #107
ceejayoz wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> let's be real the $599 model is inadequate For most of the folks on HN, that's probably true. We're an edge case. For my parents? A Mac mini is gonna be more than enough. There are folks happilly using Chromebooks with a tenth of the power.

But why would you buy them a Mac mini of all things?

Because I've fielded all sorts of "my PC has a virus / isn't working right" calls, but near-zero numbers of them for their Macs, and they don't need a laptop that's 2x the cost.
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