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2018 Mac Mini Review

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Re: 2018 Mac Mini Review

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Post by kd5bjo »

emptyfile wrote: post #14
msh wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can it really be more clear than this: Apple lent me a high-end configuration for review — 6-core i7, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD — which would cost $2499 (much of which is the SSD)

How about blazing red letters at the top of the page? How about putting "paid review" in the title of the HN submit?

But is this a paid review? He was lent the hardware, which means he had to return it after he had made his review. While there’s certainly some conflict of interest there, I don’t know anyone that would consider that a payment.

Re: 2018 Mac Mini Review

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Post by bluegreyred »

LeoNatan25 wrote: post #10

Apple’s new strategy seems to be, instead of having products that sell themselves for their clear benefits, just flood either YouTube casuals or Twitter “celebrities” (depending on target segment) with the highest end config machine and expect praise.

True, I used to go out of my way to find unbiased and honest reviews from "real" people that weren't "seeded" by manufacturers.

The problem is that many others did the same, so these honest reviewers gained followers, that gave them exposure and eventually they get approached by the PR departments which would like to "lend" them top end review samples for an undisclosed amount of time. Well before the press NDA, of course. Lately I find myself buying paper magazines again.

That being said the new Mac Mini does seem like a great product.

Re: 2018 Mac Mini Review

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Post by winuser »

LeoNatan25 wrote: post #20
jpkeisala wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't say there was too much criticism on this review.

Well, you know, we waited years for a new Mac mini replacement, and we got one that is very disappointing on the low end, very expensive on the high end, no clear future support, missing features from previous iterations, but hey, it’s amazing machine because Apple finally graced us with it and I got it for free, so let me overlook that 2500$ price tag.

I really wish that devs out there, including the HN community, give PCs and Windows another chance.

The PC specs are amazing, value for your money is excellent, the OS is beautiful - the biggest obstacle now is so much open source documentation explains how to install or build on a linux based machine, ignoring the Windows users and making them feel like sh*t for working on a Windows box.

If more dev's offered docs around building/compiling on Windows, and Windows support, that would be excellent...

Re: 2018 Mac Mini Review

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Post by dTal »

>Number one — and this is a big one these days, especially for this product — is that it’s not any less useful or versatile than the outgoing Mac Mini, including the generous assortment of ports. If the previous one served a role for you, the new one can probably do it just as well, and probably better and faster, with minimal donglage.

Wow. This is what it's come to. "It hasn't gotten worse! Yayy!"

Re: 2018 Mac Mini Review

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Post by bnolsen »

empath75 wrote: post #24
blinkingled wrote: post #12

The pricing is not really justifiable especially given the most use cases of the Mac mini (Home Theater, NAS, Backup etc.) are better handled by other OSes. The NUC8 with comparable specs (sans 6 core CPU) comes at under half the price! If you needed the 6 cores sure but given most workloads other than encoding don't - it's questionable. Even then the 6C processor doesn't cost enough to make up for the difference.

It’s hilarious how often this exact comment gets made in every single new apple product thread everywhere.

and its pointing out the truly obvious as well...

Re: 2018 Mac Mini Review

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Post by m_mueller »

emptyfile wrote: post #14
msh wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can it really be more clear than this: Apple lent me a high-end configuration for review — 6-core i7, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD — which would cost $2499 (much of which is the SSD)

How about blazing red letters at the top of the page? How about putting "paid review" in the title of the HN submit?

I don't think it's fair to suspect Marco being paid by Apple, he's far from a shill. See for example [1][2].

[1] https://marco.org/2017/11/14/best-laptop-ever

[2] https://marco.org/2017/11/24/fixing-the-macbook-pro

Re: 2018 Mac Mini Review

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Post by fredoliveira »

swarnie_ wrote: post #29
msh wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can it really be more clear than this: Apple lent me a high-end configuration for review — 6-core i7, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD — which would cost $2499 (much of which is the SSD)

How is this statement accurate? > which would cost $2499 (much of which is the SSD) A 1TB SSD is maybe $200 retail?

It's accurate maybe not according to the market in general, but it's how the pricing on the BTO works. I tried building a similarly specced Mac Mini just now and upgrading to the 1TB SSD is +$600, whereas 2TB would be +$1,400.
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