I believe a cage mount will still work but with the bottom face sticking out the back. You probably want it that way to expedite cooling anyways
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Apple Announces Redesigned Mac Mini With M4 and M4 Pro Chips, Two Front USB-C Ports, and More
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IMO there is no real value in the studio display beyond looking pretty nice and great color accuracy.
You couldn't be bothered to see if the M4 Studio gets announced tomorrow?
Given that even the base model will have an M4 Max, at least 32GB of RAM and 10GbE as standard. Speccing up lower end models is usually much worse value than just going up a tier.
it will be ridiculous if the pro machines don't get wifi 7. the stupid base phone has it. I'm pissed the Mac mini doesn't. never woulda guessed we'd get thunderbolt 5 before that. Remember the M2 has been in devices with both wifi 6 and 6e
I get $300 trade-in for my M1. Brings the base model down to $299. Worth it y’all?
I love the completely BS performance comparisons against the PC competition 🤣
TWO POINT FOUR TIMES FASTER than the all but freebie IGP that none of us use except for the most basic office workers and brokies🤣
TWO POINT FOUR TIMES FASTER than the all but freebie IGP that none of us use except for the most basic office workers and brokies🤣
My M1 already has 16GB RAM so I would just be benefitting from the footprint and bit more horsepower. Also the additional IO.
Yeah. I've always run audio from a Mac's jack to a pair of desktop speakers, and the audio port on the back is superior for that. Even the newer iMacs with the jack on the side is better because one can use an elbow connector that looks unobtrusive.
OMG what they're charging for the imac screen is ridiculous. For the same price you could get a similar spec mini and an LG 40 inch 5k display which frankly would look even more sleek
Been waiting for one of these as my 2017 27" iMac no longer supports any software upgrades. I currently run a 2TB SSD external hard drive with MacOS on it and all of my work files are held in Dropbox.
Would the 256GB for all the apps (Adobe Creative Cloud + MS Office mainly) with the 2TB plugged in for my files be fine do you think or pay the £200 extra for the 512GB?
I also have 40GB RAM in this iMac (i5 3.8 2017) but presumably the faster Apple Silicon M4 chip and 16GB RAM will still be loads faster?
Would the 256GB for all the apps (Adobe Creative Cloud + MS Office mainly) with the 2TB plugged in for my files be fine do you think or pay the £200 extra for the 512GB?
I also have 40GB RAM in this iMac (i5 3.8 2017) but presumably the faster Apple Silicon M4 chip and 16GB RAM will still be loads faster?
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I had an Apple engineer once tell me, “Whenever there is a new design, you should always wait for version 2 since version 1 will have bugs we never saw in the lab.” I knew this new model was going to come out, but still bought (2 months ago) the M2 Pro MacMini with 32 GB RAM and 2TB storage. Upgraded from a 2012 MacMini that serviced me well for 12 years.
At that configuration the price of the Mini will be more than the base price of the next Studio!
Apple prices for base models are good and if the base model fits your needs then its a good buy.
Also: for many, many years I've used external storage including for the boot drive. With TB connection to a fast SSD, you will likely not notice the speed difference compared to the internal storage, and it is much less expensive to buy a TB external storage case and put in a stick, than buying 1TB and especially 2TB SSD internal configs.
I might be in the minority but I’m not a fan of the ports on the front just like the Mac Studio. May be practical but it loses its clean minimalist look. Don’t know what’s going on with Apple’s design these days but every it’s starting to look ‘busy’.
That's been standard Apple advice for the past few decades.
Not sure how significant it is in this case, though, given everything's on a few chips (which are / will be used throughout their range), and there's no LCD display or dGPU to worry about.
Yeah, we all know. Apple structures it's pricing to reflect the stratification of wealth in society. The base model is usually fairly good value, making the "starting at" price look good, but has a tightly limited spec. If you want more than that, prices go up steeply. They essentially subsidise the price of the entry level model.
3 ports is hardly busy. Have to make some concessions to actually using the thing; it's not a sculpture (or if it is, it's a pretty boring one).
Is iCloud keeping versions of files you can revert to if need be at least?
Historically -- and please correct me if this has changed -- The real issue with iCloud has been that it propagates changes back up into the cloud, which is absolutely not what you want for a true backup service
Calling it "absolutely outrageous" is almost being kind
It's gouging on a level that is truly breathtaking
No I don’t like ports on the front either
I don’t like things looking like an octopus with wires front and back
I plan to get a usb c hub for the back