New Mac Mini with M4

Post by matheusmoreira » Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 5:41 PM UTC

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It's $800 to go up to 2TB from the 256GB model which is just criminally over priced. I can get double that for half the price with a Gen 4 NVMe drive. Weirdly the 8TB drive on the Pro is at least in line with the top of the line 8TB NVMe SSDs you can buy though there are cheaper options at about $600 vs the $1200 Apple is charging.

That's regular Apple pricing for you. Great deals on the baseline models, but insane margins on the upgrades that make them usable. And of course the ability to upgrade the devices yourself has been phased out in the name of performance and power efficiency

Post by coconut08 » Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 5:42 PM UTC

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There's still good deals in mini PC land. Yes, the M4 is faster but there's loads of mini PCs with decent CPUs, 32GB RAM and a 1TB of SSD storage for under $600. I think for a lot of people for basic usage they'll get more value out of the larger and upgradable SSDs than the faster CPU. https://www.amazon.com/BOSGAME-5700U-Displays-Computers-Emul... https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-SER5-Desktop-Computer-Graphic...

But you have to run Windows, which is a deal breaker for most people.

Post by abhinavk » Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 5:42 PM UTC

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Yeah the same tech pcs were using for 14+ years https://x.com/LinaAsahi/status/1820947147312820497

> I know ancient iGPUs had that thing for setting the GPU memory size in the BIOS, but that's aaaaaancient and completely obsolete. If you still have that, just set it to the minimum value. The rest of memory will be unified. I hadn’t used a PC in so long, I still thought that bios setting decided the division. TIL. Lucky we have Asahi Lina to clarify the details.

Post by kridsdale3 » Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

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Microsoft Windows is a non-starter though.

Post by holycrapwhodat » Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 5:44 PM UTC

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I wish they would add small UPS inside (like super-capacitor or something like that) there to provide way for forced sleep when power is cut off. It's a neat small device which must be accompanied by huge bulky UPS for reliable operation. If someone didn't know, macOS ignores fsync, so without UPS your data is not safe. Not an issue for laptops, obviously, but issue for battery-less devices.

You could use an USB C power bank, because it seems to be usb-c powered