Man, how could I forget about the Intel/AMD mashup...?
These may just be the CPU/GPUs Apple will use for an upgraded Mac Mini...
These may just be the CPU/GPUs Apple will use for an upgraded Mac Mini...
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2018 Mac Mini w/ Kaby Lake G
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I wished that too, however I’m totally skeptical about it, Apple just doesn’t care about gpu performance that much. In any case, new Mac mini will have Thunderbolt 3 ports. You may combine it with a gigabyte gaming box egpu and get a portable and still quite small setup.
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I think the i7-8809G could be the top end Mac Mini that focuses on Pro use...
This would slot it below the iMac Pro, which has the Vega 56 (w/8GB HBM2) as the baseline...
The forthcoming Modular Mac Pro will probably offer dual WX9100s (is this the Vega 64 w/16GB HBM2 we see in the top-end iMac Pro...?) at the top end...
But a decent modern medium power multi-core/multi-threaded CPU (8th gen i5s & i7s) & the ability to have an eGPU (hello, Vega 56 Nano) would be a good route to go as well...
Whatever Apple brings us for the Mac Mini, I hope it comes in Space Grey, and I hope Apple rolls out a new line of displays (that are also in Space Grey)...!
I know I could build a Hackintosh that has better components for the same that a Mac Mini Pro might cost, but with the HackPro comes the hassle of getting everything to work & the dread of a minor update shutting your system down...
I think the i7-8809G could be the top end Mac Mini that focuses on Pro use...
This would slot it below the iMac Pro, which has the Vega 56 (w/8GB HBM2) as the baseline...
The forthcoming Modular Mac Pro will probably offer dual WX9100s (is this the Vega 64 w/16GB HBM2 we see in the top-end iMac Pro...?) at the top end...
But a decent modern medium power multi-core/multi-threaded CPU (8th gen i5s & i7s) & the ability to have an eGPU (hello, Vega 56 Nano) would be a good route to go as well...
Whatever Apple brings us for the Mac Mini, I hope it comes in Space Grey, and I hope Apple rolls out a new line of displays (that are also in Space Grey)...!
I know I could build a Hackintosh that has better components for the same that a Mac Mini Pro might cost, but with the HackPro comes the hassle of getting everything to work & the dread of a minor update shutting your system down...
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Well, I think a fair few people will be keeping their power dry till Tuesday. I still have my doubts over whether Apple would use the Kaby Lake G when in the past they have swerved Skylake's Iris Pro 580 desktop CPU in the probable knowledge that that was the last Iris Pro CPU. They went with ordinary H series CPUs plus dGPU in the 2016 MBP.
They also went with 2 generations of 15w CPU with Iris Graphics (non touch bar Macbook Pro) even though Intel seems to have drawn the line at Kaby Lake with no hint of a Coffee Lake version
They also went with 2 generations of 15w CPU with Iris Graphics (non touch bar Macbook Pro) even though Intel seems to have drawn the line at Kaby Lake with no hint of a Coffee Lake version