Allright good point, wait for new stuff for the new mini. There will be for sure many. Even an advice regarding brand is welcone. Thanks a lot for your reply.
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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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I do not have any usb-c/thunderbolt compatible stuff, physically compatible.
Its either dock or cables/reductions.
6 usb-a ports, despite the mini having 5 ports now, i am still lacking 1 and I do not want to plug and unplug sd card reader for example, the mini would have too much worth for me to plug/unplug cables from it on daily basis.
So, regarding the Thunderbolt 5 ports on the Mac Mini M4 Pro: If Satechi / OWC releases an expansion hub that can be connected via TB5 / NVMe-SSD, is it viable to boot directly to a larger, fast external SSD - instead of Apple's onboard SSD? Would I notice a difference in speed? Gaming? Rebuke from the community? 
Never in a million years would I have thought to see a 3,5 mm jack on the front of a Mac mini. Yet here we are. They did a great job here on the redesign
I run a M2 Pro Base Mini 16/512. A 2TB NVME acts as my "home" directory. After about 18 months I'm still only using 139GB of the 500GB available. Try Grandperspective and the built in Storage Settings to find large files to delete. Also see
what do you do with your machine though? a lot of my storage hog is adobe and all its related system files
The Envoy Ultra will give you the same level of performance as the internal drive
Agreed 100%! Mac Mini + 48”-55” Oled TV is an incredible value. I don’t see the need for an iMac only if someone prefers an all in one.
$1599 for a 5k, 600 nits, IPS display. Oh and 60Hz. Yes meant for photographers and not gamers, but even the Pro XDR is only at 60Hz. Why? The Studio Display sounds looks incredible, but falls short to OLED monitors similarly priced.
there are no 5k oleds... and oled burn in still scares me with static elements always on on a computer display
Which monitors? The LG and asus oled 4k ones? Not sure which monitor to buy. The LG has a fan that can be noisy and the asus is quite gamey. Must be other good contenders for the new mac mini.
I get along fine with my 512 internal w/4TB of NVME and 28TB of spinning rust on my M1 Mac Studio, the up charge for 512 is $200 so for $799 you get everything you need
Airpods work on Bluetooth, some years ago I had a bluetooth speaker that was like a second late from a video which was annoying. It was not in sync. Is this fixed in new bluetooth speakers or Airpods since airpods are bluetooth?
But if you want 32 GB, now each 8 GB RAM costs $200 so you still have to pay $400 if you want 32 GB RAM.
We’ve got a small usb-c to phono adaptor on an iMac. Works pretty well. You could put that on the back.Depends. I'd like to use it for speakers, and the rear would be better
Considering that they shrunk the case but managed to keep most of the ports is a pleasant surprise. Apple seems to be willing to add more ports in their newer models than in the Intel generations. Good.
The XDR is intended as a reference monitor for color grading in photography and video production and it is priced like other reference monitors. It’s never been priced or marketed as a general market monitor. For that scenario, refresh rate is irrelevant. Most gamers want higher refresh and lower resolution for fast response. Very different market. Those OLED monitors may have faster refresh than the Studio Display but most have lower resolution.
Now that Apple has TB5 and DP2.1 available we’ll have to keep an eye on this space to see if they bump up the resolution or the refresh rate or both.
There's a bit of that. It's certainly a bonus to Apple that less ports on their devices = less cost / greater profit for them.
I think there's an aesthetic angle too though. Apple get to present a featureless paragon of perfection; it's up to the user to add the dongles and hubs that make it useable in real life. MacBooks with one or two USB-C ports created a cottage industry of adapters to provide SD, Ethernet, HDMI and USB-A ports. It's a design cheat to externalise stuff like this; it reminds me of the X360, where MS kept it relatively compact by using a huge external PSU.
Apple devices in general tend to be designed for the showroom rather than the real world. Their aluminium finishes look pristine, but are fairly easy to scratch, necessitating the use of cases for everything. It's the polar opposite of ThinkPads, which are bulletproof in comparison. Speaking of Lenovo, repairability is another angle to this. Again, arguments can be made (with increasing justification) that Apple makes repair difficult simply for profit reasons. But it's also the case that whenever it comes to a choice between shaving 1mm from a device's thickness, or using a layout / construction that makes it easier to take apart, they'll go for the former every time. It's all about the showroom - real life is your problem.
Apple is the sole hardware supplier to iOS and macOS. You can't go anywhere else (aside to Android / Windows), so their users tend to talk themselves into whatever Apple is offering. The "8GB of RAM is enough for anyone" farce is a great example of this. This self-soothing talk helps when 16GB is beyond your budget, yet people rejoice the moment Apple (is forced to) change their mind.
Sure, permanent cables in the front ports are messy looking, but think of the positive: for that occasional plugging in something for a temporary sync or transfer: it would be so much more convenient than lifting up the mass of cables in back and plugging in the cable.
