Whatever happened to the Mac Pro line?
It’s called the Mac Studio now.
Not really, the Studio was more of an iMac (27inch / Pro) replacement.
Mac Pros are coming.
New Mac Mini
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Re: New Mac Mini
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why take away consumer choice? They've always been available with at least 16GB. I'm perfectly happy with 8GB on my M1 and it was fine on my 2016 13" Pro.
Because the alternative is to add literally a few dollars to the bill of materials for the machine, double the memory, and give everyone a better experience. This also means the machine will last longer and likely not end up in a landfill as soon. $200 to add 8GB of memory is _insane_, and framing it as "consumer choice" is bad when consumers are being gouged so badly. It's literally at least a 20x markup on the whol…
You seem to believe that doubling (or quadrupling as suggested elsewhere) the installed DRAM has no energy cost. Adding several watts of mandatory 24x7 idle power consumption to a machine mostly celebrated for its energy efficiency seems odd.
Re: New Mac Mini
#153Does anyone know if Mac Minis integrate with Xcode to perform distributed builds? It would be superb if a small software team could expense half a dozen Mac Minis to handle the team's build jobs.
Yup, that works.
Re: New Mac Mini
#154Re: New Mac Mini
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I bought one of those fancy hub/stand thing that was built for the Mini, I'd still rather have then ports built it. I got greenscreen crashes for a while any time I had it plugged in, which meant I was stuck with the built in ports.
Totally understandable desire for what is supposed to be a static desktop experience.
its understandable for a laptop. I look forward to in 10 years when I no longer have a USB A device.
Re: New Mac Mini
#156disappointed 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.
Running Chrome on an Apple product is downright wasteful.
Re: New Mac Mini
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not all RAM is dirt cheap. RAM in DDR4 sockets is dirt cheap.
8GB of general-purpose RAM, regardless of form factor, is dirt cheap. In fact, not having the sockets might make it cheaper than socketed RAM in volume, since there are fewer parts in total.
Except, with Apple's new kit here, the RAM isn't simply some external chip soldered to the main board, it's actually on-die with the CPU silicon (and everything else in that silicon: GPU, memory controllers, etc).
So yes, arguably there are fewer parts (just one), but in the event of e.g. some bad RAM during manufacture, it's far more costly to throw out the chip containing that bad RAM.
Re: New Mac Mini
#158Anyone 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…
That still bugs me. Apple broke DSC in the first beta of Big Sur, and it hadn't been fixed when I switched monitors about a year ago, a little less.
Catalina on my cheesegrater Mac Pro would happily drive 2 4K 10-bit screens at 144Hz (via TB3)
Big Sur? Not so much. Had to downgrade DSC from 1.4 to 1.2 on my monitors, and even then I could only get 120Hz at 8 bit, 95Hz at 10bit, IIRC. Still not "shabby" but annoying. Really seems like it was broken as something to do with the Pro Display XDR.
Re: New Mac Mini
#159Earlier 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.
External NVMe?
Yes. You can buy an NVMe SSD and put it into an external thunderbolt enclosure.
Here is one random $115 option for a thunderbolt external NVMe enclosure with seemingly good reviews: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB74BQVN
Realistically, you probably don't even need a thunderbolt enclosure to have a good experience with an external Apple Photos library, but this option is still way cheaper than the prices Apple charges.
Re: New Mac Mini
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another anecdote: I have a M1 air and an m1 iMac both with 8GB and have never run into a problem. I think 8gb is still the sweet spot for casual users.
Can you define "sweet spot" in this case? Usually I see that term used when the thing being considered is a pricey upgrade, and you need to strike a compromise between price and performance. In this case, we're talking about an extra 8GB of memory, which would add perhaps $10 in cost to the bill of materials for the machine (or maybe less in sufficient volume). Given that Apple is also overcharging by at least 3x cur…
Majority of users are just going to be using web, email and photos.
There is simply no need for more than 8GB for those use cases.