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Apple Announces New Mac Mini Starting at $499
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I am going to bet this has soldered RAM like the MBA too. So you'll be stuck with whatever amount it comes with after purchase.
Did that, and a discrete GPU puts it over the $500, and I built mine with a Core I3. If I were to go to a desktop again and was on a budget, I'd rather do the Mini than roll another Hackintosh.. not that I don't like rolling my own, but I've done that for 20 years with Linux. Tired of doing that at home.
I have my MBA that I can use as a desktop, so when I get Yosemite installed, I'm pulling my hackintosh down, so I'll finally be legit and mobile.
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I see what you're saying, however 8GB is not top-end by a long shot.
Other than that, 4GB is barely passable, guess they're off the hook for that.
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Doesn't look like it will be the same as before. LPDDR3 is soldered on so not upgradeable.
The previous quad core model was too close to the entry Mac Pro in CPU power for dramatically less money. I'm now looking for the previous gen quad core on eBay since it'll be the last respectable mini anytime soon...this makes me so sad. I'd rather them had not update it at all than take it down several notches in power in this way. Argh! #
No, it isn't but we both know that the true majority of people that buy the base model, just like the base model iPhone, etc. Those specs will work for them and that is what base models are built for.
I hate using the reference but base model vehicles, companies sell a ton of them and those that want better equipment have to pay for better equipment. This world isn't going to give away upgrades when there is more money to be made in charging for upgrades.
4 in the low end, 8 in the other, BTO up to 16. Disappointed they didn't upgrade to allow more than that.
After this update, Apple needs an xMac more than ever. Or at least a reasonably priced entry level Mac Pro.
Hopefully we'll have clarification soon but it doesn't sound like it from the online store.
There must be if there are versions with hard drives.
Doesn't look like it will be the same as before. LPDDR3 is soldered on so not upgradeable.
Source?
A quick perusal of the likely cpu configurations in the new top end vs the old top end indicates a perforamnce drop of 30-40% on multi-threaded workload (like transcoding)
I hope my limited understanding of things is wrong, but I suspect that the new mini is a bad replacement of the old mini as a pro-sumer server / high-end media box.
I hope my limited understanding of things is wrong, but I suspect that the new mini is a bad replacement of the old mini as a pro-sumer server / high-end media box.
Doesn't look like it will be the same as before. LPDDR3 is soldered on so not upgradeable.
I put 32GB of LPDDR3 1866MHz in my iMac without having to use a soldering iron.
So, which one would be faster:
edit: the Macbook Air page says "4GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory" while the Mac mini page says "4GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 memory", so I guess it's not soldered on the motherboard.
- my current Mac mini with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo and 8GB of RAM
- a new Mac mini with a 1.4GHz dual core i5 and 4GB of RAM
edit: the Macbook Air page says "4GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory" while the Mac mini page says "4GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 memory", so I guess it's not soldered on the motherboard.
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I don't think it will be that bad.. The dual core i7 still clocks in at 3.0ghz (3.5 with turbo boost), That and being a newer generation CPU means it should still return decent benchmarks. Perhaps not as good as the higher end models of the previous generation, but likely not so far off either..