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Apple Leaks New Mac Mini With 5 USB-C Ports
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No, this is the budget friendly/entry level base model Mac Mini silly.
I think we'd all agree there's a big difference from the $4500.00 non entry level/not budget friendly, not base model, to the tune of a $3900.00 difference.
I don't know if it's been mentioned already (the thread is too long now), but... given that the M3 Pro MacBook Pro 14" can be serviced with a 70W MagSafe adapter and the Mini has no screen, wouldn't it be NEAT if the new mini had no internal power supply AND could be powered by a USB-C monitor using the same cable that's used for video?
After all, a lot of people are using their MacBooks connected to a monitor in exactly that configuration. Remove the screen, keyboard, trackpad, battery, webcam, microphones and speakers... and you're there.
Just one cable to connect it to a monitor. Wireless mouse/trackpad and keyboard. That would be cool The two-piece iMac!
After all, a lot of people are using their MacBooks connected to a monitor in exactly that configuration. Remove the screen, keyboard, trackpad, battery, webcam, microphones and speakers... and you're there.
Just one cable to connect it to a monitor. Wireless mouse/trackpad and keyboard. That would be cool
The two-piece iMac!
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That would be neat. Like these network devices (APs routers etc) than can be powered from wall or with a PoE ethernet cable.I don't know if it's been mentioned already (the thread is too long now), but... given that the M3 Pro MacBook Pro 14" can be serviced with a 70W MagSafe adapter and the Mini has no screen, wouldn't it be NEAT if the new mini had no internal power supply AND could be powered by a USB-C monitor using the same cable that's used for video?
After all, a lot of people are using their MacBooks connected to a monitor in exactly that configuration. Remove the screen, keyboard, trackpad, battery, webcam, microphones and speakers... and you're there.
Just one cable to connect it to a monitor. Wireless mouse/trackpad and keyboard. That would be cool
Funny you say that, because I brush with both hands too. (Alternating that is—not holding it like a shovel. 😂) Never heard of it leading to a long life, but I’ll take it! 😄
As for the left handed trackpad… I mainly use it for multitouch gestures and scrolling, but sometimes I mix it up a bit. Highly recommended.
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Sure, it is a bad product for you. But Apple is offering a product that appeals to Jamie0003, while they are not forcing you to buy it. That is how the free market works. If there are not enough people that it appeals to, then Apple will likely change it.
It’s just messy to have an extra dock, especially one that needs power (with an external power brick, of course). There is not much downside to including various ports on a desktop computer. Who cares if it’s an inch more narrow or a bit thinner, it’s going to sit on a desk anyway. Make it so it is heavy enough to not move around from the weight of cables, and make it so it has ports people use. Make it have an internal lower supply and make it so it can be powered via usb-c for those who have a monitor that provides power.
No.
One would assume that an M4 and M4 Pro would have the same number of ports just different internal specs. ONLY in the Apple-Verse is that considered a logical thing to do.
ESPECIALLY since the current version has far more ports.
I wonder if it will still come with 8GB of ram and they will keep charging 200£ for 8GB upgrade. Pretty sure they will. 🥲
I don’t need to bend luckily my M1 still is enough for me. 😁
Windows 95 was still a GUE shell on top of -- or perhaps overlaid is a better term -- a DOS (I believe 7.0). All the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT favorites were still there. It -- similar to Windows 3.x, etc -- was a weird hybrid operating system of a 32-bit protected mode kernel, drivers, applications that didn't 100% shed it's 16-bit real mode roots.
Windows NT was the true new 32-bit protected mode OS. I used Windows NT 4.0 on a Dell Precision of the time and it was unexpectedly solid (coming from UNIX systems whose uptime was typically measured in months and years rather than hours maybe days). However, I recall it didn't support Plug and Play and otherwise not great for laptops among other limitations.
Windows 2K finally merged the previous mess of consumer and business versions. It used the Windows NT kernel while offering a more consumer friendly GUI, Plug and Play, and better laptop support among other things. It was solid.
Still Windows though. Although 2K finally did away with DOS, it retained the C:\ type stuff. As far as I know Windows will operates in drives letter. One can mount file systems as folders in more recent versions but otherwise I think it defaults to drive letters.
It's somewhat ironic but I think the computer enthusiasts of the future will be high-end gamers...for the rest it will be an appliance like a refrigerator.
I sold computers in the 1980s and, back in the 20th century, a lot of the PC fans (Lotus 1-2-3 fans) referred disparagingly to the Mac and anything not a PC as a "game machine". Fast forward a few decades and now the PC fans complain that only PCs are game machines. Yeah, it's a funny world.
Well, it's all technically still rumours, so I would say "No?"
No, we don't. But we are pretty certain that there is a redesign for the new model. Gurman has a good track record, and if he says it's going to be smaller, it's probably so. It does make sense after so many years in its current form factor from 2010. Not only that, but mini pc's abound and are extremely popular. In any case, we should find out next month.
If it makes any difference I'm the exact opposite. 😁
Mac mini has always been an entry point to the Mac platform, but there are also $4K powerhouses for those who need/want it.
My 2018 Intel machine is still enough for me. 😉
I agree. For those users there’s the Mac Studio and the Mac Pro. If apples slimming down the Mac mini and stripping ports, it’s probably going to bring the cost down too, and honestly there’s not much point having a high end mini anymore. I think the mini is going to the budget end only in future, imo
I'm not sure a smaller mini will mean more noise. My M1 Air is silent, and if they are shrinking the mini they might just make it fanless.
Apple buying Logic did indeed affect me, as it probably saved me at least a thousand dollars in upgrade costs over the last decade, so I'm not cursing them.
Yeah, I actually think they are missing an opportunity to release a 40th Anniversary Mac that is just one of these minis stuffed into a Cube style case. It should run cool enough for the original cooling system and would be a great throwback that I would think would appeal to at least a few of us old nerds that miss the original.
But if the plan includes a Mac mini version with an M4pro chip, then a fan is very likely
The plastic extension was the Macsense iCatch, and some from other brands too.
They're really cool
That's the one.
A really cool patch for one of Apple's worst ever design blunders, and it happened on Steve Jobs' watch folks—a reminder that every genius is fallible.