My first thought for this thing is to download Linux, Steam, and all the emulators you can and you've basically got a conveniently sized and priced home theater PC that can play any video game from 1990-2010 or so
New Mac Mini
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#22I feel like adding the Pro makes the Studio increasingly niche.
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#23$4,500 maxed out. $4,500 for a Mac mini. God. They really think people are going to pay $4,500 for a Mac mini, don't they?
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#24can this run dual monitors?
My experience with the M1 mini is a bit iffy dual monitor support wise.
Thunderbolt -> USBC/DP/HDMI is best bet on high resolution monitors since it offer more scaling options. HDMI does't offer as many scaling options, I prefer 3008x1692 scaling on my 4k screens but alas, only one of them can be scaled like this since HDMI is 4k (not scaled), 2k or 1080p scaling only.
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#26disappointed 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.
1. You can add more 2. New RAM is not like old RAM. Macs are dramatically more optimized than they used to be. I have a MacBook Air (M1) with 16GB of RAM and it runs more smoothly than older systems that had twice that much. 8GB of RAM today feels like what 32GB of RAM used to. 8GB of RAM can handle very process-heavy tasks, like... running Chrome ;)
Everything you said is true; I'll even add that MacOS is probably the best functioning Desktop OS under low memory conditions!
However the parent is right, it's disgusting how much memory capacity is needed to run a basic environment.
Maybe having exceptionally fast machines with limited ram will cause people to actually think about their resource usage.
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#27disappointed 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.
1. You can add more 2. New RAM is not like old RAM. Macs are dramatically more optimized than they used to be. I have a MacBook Air (M1) with 16GB of RAM and it runs more smoothly than older systems that had twice that much. 8GB of RAM today feels like what 32GB of RAM used to. 8GB of RAM can handle very process-heavy tasks, like... running Chrome ;)
> 1. You can add more
Tell that to Apple so they can do that out of the box.
> 8GB of RAM today feels like what 32GB of RAM used to
No. I think you're confusing memory speed with capacity. Making ram faster doesn't mean it can magically store more.
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#28$4,500 maxed out. $4,500 for a Mac mini. God. They really think people are going to pay $4,500 for a Mac mini, don't they?
No, it's $599, with a load of extra customised options that allow people to add what they want, you cannot even buy this one in a store, you have to do a custom order, your regular user, walking into an electronic store will buy a base model.
You've specced it up with every customisation possible, that 999.999999% of buyers won't do and won't need and then complain at the cost in an effort to bash Apple,
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#29disappointed 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.
> 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.
I see both 24GB and 32GB configurations on the Apple Store configurator. Not sure what you're looking at.
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#30Whatever happened to the Mac Pro line?