I'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.
Apple Mac Mini
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Re: Apple Mac Mini
#22i just bought a mac mini a few months ago. wish i would have waited...
its been well overdue for an upgrade, if you had asked on forums everyone would have suggested you wait.
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It won't because the bandwidth of TB2 cannot transfer the amount of data needed for a 5K display. The new Retina iMacs can get away with it because it can interface with the graphics output directly.
Hmmmm my math can be wrong but I don't think you are correct: 5120x2880 = 14745600 pixels 14745600pixels x 3 colours, 1 byte each = 44236800 bytes 44236800/1024/1024 = 42.19MB each frame 42.19MB per frame x 60 frames a second = 2531.25MB. TB2 has a bandwidth of 20Gbps = 2560MB/s So yeah, theoretically TB2 has enough bandwidth. But it's a very tight fit.
I don't know the actual answer, but it may be that the display actually expects 32bpp, in which case it would be over the limit by a considerable amount.
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#24i just bought a mac mini a few months ago. wish i would have waited...
I always check this out when I'm looking to buy: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#25Not 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.
You can upgrade the RAM.
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#26Not 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.
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#27BTO 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.
BTO: Built To Order
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#28Has the mini server gone away? I don't see it mentioned.
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#29So correct me if I'm wrong, but they appear to have done the same thing with the Mac Mini to achieve the lower price point as they did with the iMac earlier this year, by introducing a 1.4Ghz i5 model? I don't recall the base Mac Mini being as weak before...
Correct. Yesterday a the entry Mac Mini was $599 and had a 2.5GHz dual-core i5 with 4GB of RAM.
Re: Apple Mac Mini
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmmmm my math can be wrong but I don't think you are correct: 5120x2880 = 14745600 pixels 14745600pixels x 3 colours, 1 byte each = 44236800 bytes 44236800/1024/1024 = 42.19MB each frame 42.19MB per frame x 60 frames a second = 2531.25MB. TB2 has a bandwidth of 20Gbps = 2560MB/s So yeah, theoretically TB2 has enough bandwidth. But it's a very tight fit.
I don't know the actual answer, but it may be that the display actually expects 32bpp, in which case it would be over the limit by a considerable amount.
The above calculation was for 32bpp:
3 colors * 1 byte * (8 bits/byte) = 32 bits