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It's actually really small, according to Steam Hardware Survey, Macs are only 1.88% of Steam users, which is less than that of Linux, which is probably why most developers don't care.
Does Linux include SteamDeck here?
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It's a shame because a Mac Mini is a solid gaming computer.
> It's a shame because a Mac Mini is a solid gaming computer Well, Apple doesn't sell 'em with RGB LEDs built-in, so I dunno. ...more seriously though: I don't know how you can say that with a straight-face. On paper, the Apple Silicon M3 and M4 seem comparable to NVIDIA's mid-tier offerings from 3-4 years ago... when rendering to a 1080p-sized display; assuming you'd like to render your games at native Retina or eve…
if all I can't play is 2025 AAA games..I'm not missing out on much. It ran BG3 solidly anyways! Obviously not maxed out but it was playable and enjoyable.
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It's a shame because a Mac Mini is a solid gaming computer.
> It's a shame because a Mac Mini is a solid gaming computer Well, Apple doesn't sell 'em with RGB LEDs built-in, so I dunno. ...more seriously though: I don't know how you can say that with a straight-face. On paper, the Apple Silicon M3 and M4 seem comparable to NVIDIA's mid-tier offerings from 3-4 years ago... when rendering to a 1080p-sized display; assuming you'd like to render your games at native Retina or eve…
now i have a sudden urge to buy a mac mini and install a tiny case window with LEDs and an itty-bitty LCD display for power/thermal monitoring.
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They sure don't care about games on Mac, but I think this specific issue is more due to trying to do "magic" for better or worse. Introducing the notch creates this "here but not really usable" area that is specific to some displays, and Apple touts it as something that will just work thanks to their software layer. Yet every app has to deal with it one way or another and most apps that care about screen estate or re…
No, every app does not need to deal with it, at least in principle. Apple could literally have provided a resolution list which only covers the 16:10 resolutions which aren't covered by the notch, and then games literally wouldn't have known that they were running on a machine with a notch. The problem here is 100% that Apple, for some reason, provides both 16:10 "safe" resolutions and the actual whole screen resolut…
https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/qveb0u/force_true_fu...
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No, screen size is important. For the same size laptop, less bevel means more screen. And I don't about you but I don't hold the screen half of my laptop. Not unless the laptop is closed. So I don't see how that's a concern.
For the love of $DEITY, it’s bezel ! :-) https://www.howtogeek.com/762611/what-is-a-bezel/
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No, screen size is important. For the same size laptop, less bevel means more screen. And I don't about you but I don't hold the screen half of my laptop. Not unless the laptop is closed. So I don't see how that's a concern.
Hi, laptop repair tech here. You want more bezel. Screens with less bezel have less overall edge protection and will break easier due to opening or closing forces or impacts. Bezel-less screens are fragile pieces of junk.
Another was when my kitten bit the edge of the screen. It didn't even leave a mark but it was just enough concentrated pressure at the edge of the screen that it killed it.
Now I'm a lot more careful, but thank goodness for Applecare.
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I just replaced a nuc 9 ghost canyon with a Mac mini. The difference in power consumption is insane. Nuc was 67 watts. The mini is 4-10. I don’t have enough data for a long term average on the mini yet, but it’s ludicrously efficient.
I genuinely curious, how are you noticing? Do you have a power plug that reports that data to you or is the room with it noticibly hotter, or?
I have a few bits of hardware on them so that I can force a hard reboot remotely if needed. Crude, but effective.
https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/smart-plug/hs110/
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I just replaced a nuc 9 ghost canyon with a Mac mini. The difference in power consumption is insane. Nuc was 67 watts. The mini is 4-10. I don’t have enough data for a long term average on the mini yet, but it’s ludicrously efficient.
Is it me or is a 6 year old product on 14nm against whatever isn't exactly the most level of comparisons?
Both are on 10gbe, and I suspect the card in the Nuc was a bit of a power draw.
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Mac Mini is i believe the most efficient consumer computer made ever. It uses the same energy most computers Ethernet ports use.
> Mac Mini is i believe the most efficient consumer computer made ever My raspberry pi is sitting at 3 watts, and runs linux software just fine. A Mac Mini uses multiple times that, and can barely run any software I care about (i.e. linux). They're both consumer computers, and yes there's a massive difference in their capabilities, but "most efficient ever" is a really strong claim.
You’re both right, and wrong.
The Mac uses 3-4W most the time. The reason mine is using more is that it has an Ubuntu VM running Pihole (so it is running Linux). This doubles/triples the power usage.
If I wasn’t such a chicken, I’d run it on the host in docker, but I’ve learned the pain of having Pihole on the same host as other services. Dead dns is not not good.
I really wish I could run Ubuntu on the metal. Something as simple as having docker containers run on boot is unreliable, and the god awful hack I have made to get it to work is so disgusting it’s shameful.
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> Mac Mini is i believe the most efficient consumer computer made ever My raspberry pi is sitting at 3 watts, and runs linux software just fine. A Mac Mini uses multiple times that, and can barely run any software I care about (i.e. linux). They're both consumer computers, and yes there's a massive difference in their capabilities, but "most efficient ever" is a really strong claim.
The claim was about efficiency, not just power draw. In your comparison you talk about software compatibility, but the Mac can run Linux and many open source tools & apps found on it. So the Pi is only ahead if you arbitrarily limit the comparison to a specific distro that's not Asahi or an application like sxiv, and in addition are the kind of user who wants that software and doesn't care about Mac exclusive program…
It works well. Quite why networking from VM is more reliable than networking from the host is a question I’d like to ask Apple. SMB does not reliably start at boot.
Imagine if you could turn on a Mac mini, have docker containers start and then have them access network shares reliably.
The Ubuntu VM on the same host can. That’s ridiculous.