Apple Announces New Space Gray Mac mini With 4-Core or 6-Core Intel Processor and Up to 64GB RAM, Starting at $799

[ikir]

I agree. 128GB is just silly for a device many use as a home computer.

With iCloud for photos, considering sync with iPhone, most of the home users will have enough space. I have a lot of consumer who are basic users and I see that they usually use very little space.
Anyway I agree, Apple should have made it 256GB default.

 

[bigpoppamac31]

the RAM is 100% upgrable, easily done so by the user. RAM prices have been inflated recently across the industry.

Apple wants $600 to go to 32GB, you can do it yourself for about half the cost.

Storage is not upgradable.

Okay cause I’d want 16Gb ram and 1TB SSD if I can afford it.

 

[Drag'nGT]

What the crap? $800 for an i3 and 128gb storage? The iMac looks like a steal at this price.

How easily I can upgrade it will be the next question.

 

[MrGuder]

Is the headphone jack an optical audio port like in older Macs/Minis? I hope so.

You mean the headphone jack could also double as an audio in jack?

 

[Kuri c]

Silly pricing for piece meal storage
Killed “desktop computing” in true sense

 

[bigfatipod]

I believe the thing to look for in USB enclosures for existing fast SATA SSDs, is "UASP". ("USB Attached SCSI Protocol").

awesome, thanks! I will do some research into that

 

[wdwpsu]

Is the Ram or SSD upgradeable by the user in the future?? That would be so much better!!

This seems to need a thread on it's own. Consensus is.
Ram: Yes, but strongly suggested to have an authorized technician do the work.
SSD: No, it's soldered in.

 

[aaronhead14]

But are the RAM and SSD user-upgradeable? Because an additional $2,520 for maxed out RAM and SSD is an insane price. I'd rather just do it myself for 1/5 the price.

 

[Juggar]

Okay cause I’d want 16Gb ram and 1TB SSD if I can afford it.

Good news is you only need to buy an extra single 8GB stick. Probably cost about $60-65.

https://www.neweggbusiness.com/Prod...Vx5yzCh28kAeNEAQYAiABEgJQC_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

This is assuming they install one 8GB stick as the default.

 

[imageWIS]

Can the RAM be user upgraded? How about the HD? Apple wants $1400 for a 2TB SSD, when I can get one myself for around $400 (or less).

 

[jwdsail]

Looking good, but the 64GB RAM is a gimmick. Probably a marketing move to shut up some bashers...

I'm sure a few spec chasers out there will buy it BTO w/ 64GB. I'm sure a few pros who actually need it will order it that way as well. I'm glad that it'll be an option to UPGRADE to as much as 64GB in the future should I want/need to?

16GB now, upgrade in 2019/20? Will be ordering tonight after I sit down and do an inventory of what I really need for internal storage with a little room to grow.. 512GB should work for the entertainment center even if I set it up to dual-boot Mac/Win. (All the music, video, photos are on ext drive already)

 

[Juggar]

This seems to need a thread on it's own. Consensus is.
Ram: Yes, but strongly suggested to have an authorized technician do the work.
SSD: No, it's soldered in.

Why would you need "authorized technician" to do it? Anyone that can follow simple instructions could do it in a few mins.....

Dont buy into the "you need a professional" crap.

 

[munc1]

$4,199 HaHaHaHa

 

[Seramir]

Overpriced! Hackintosh FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funnily enough, you can build a mini-ITX Hackintosh with similar footprint as the mini, with like an i9-9900K, 64GB RAM, 2TB PCI-e NVMe SSD and even possibly throw a graphics card on there and it won't cost even 1/3 of a maxed out less powerful Mac mini.

 

[hans1972]

When companies (not just Apple) wait an inordinately long time to update products, then talk about it for more than a year, it sets the expectation of something phenomenal versus just a expected normal-cycle update. There is, IMO, absolutely zero WOW FACTOR in the product itself.

Apple hasn't talked about the Mac Mini except for Phil Schiller saying it remains an important part of their lineup when asked in interviews.

 

[duervo]

I’m getting all misty-eyed now. ;;

iPad Pro, Mac mini, and 13” Retina MacBook Air. Anyone of those are right up my alley.

(Expecting things to be non-soldered from Apple these days would mean living under a rock for the last 6 years.)

 

[DVD9]

the RAM is 100% upgrable, easily done so by the user. RAM prices have been inflated recently across the industry.

Apple wants $600 to go to 32GB, you can do it yourself for about half the cost. I imagine most will upgrade to 16GB if apple includes a single 8GB stick of RAM in as the base option. It would only cost you about $75 or so to go to 16.

Storage is not upgradable.

ROFLOL!

NO

You have to toss the two 4GB RAM in the trash.

 

[Yvan256]

$4,199 HaHaHaHa

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A.K.A. "Max mini"

 

[StellarVixen]

Funnily enough, you can build a mini-ITX Hackintosh with similar footprint as the mini, with like an i9-9900K, 64GB RAM, 2TB PCI-e NVMe SSD and even possibly throw a graphics card on there and it won't cost even 1/3 of a maxed out less powerful Mac mini.

Yes you can. And yes we know. You are member since the 2006, and all this time you failed to realize that we just don't care., for the reasons explained so many times.

 

[imageWIS]

How so? I run sometimes 3 VMs, some with 8gb of ram, some with 16gb. 64GB is actually very usable in my scenario.

I hope you enjoy OVERpaying $1,400 for 64GB of RAM.

 

[jwdsail]

No new iMac. So disappointed. Who wants a Mac Mini?

I'll be ordering two tonight? One for office another for the entertainment center.. Replacing two old pre-2014 Minis.

 

[Yvan256]

NO. You have to toss the two 4GB RAM in the trash.

Or you can sell them on eBay. The average price for 2666MHz 4GB DDR4 SODIMMs on eBay.ca seems to be around 60~80$CAD for two 4GB modules. Still far from the 240$CAD Apple are asking to upgrade to 16GB but nobody is going to throw perfectly good RAM in the trash.

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

So the thunderbolt port will handle audio in?

Thunderbolt will handle everything.

 

[Juggar]

I hope you enjoy OVERpaying $1,400 for 64GB of RAM.

No one would pay that though, you'd just do it on your on for half the price. Assuming you could find the 32GB sticks.

 

[Sukach]

Was really hoping for under $500 so i could consider getting one as a HTPC. Right now, my Synology is just not cutting it on my HEVC movies. Oh well. Maybe I can eventually pick one of these up refurbished or used.