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Apple Now Offers $100 10Gb Ethernet Add-On for Mac Mini
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Bragging rights cost money.
Speaking of OWC, I got my Thunderbolt 4 dock just over 2 weeks ago and have been very pleased. It makes life so much easer when you have several peripherals for your M1 MBA.
Look up at how much it cost to add a 10 gig Ethernet pcie card and get back to us.
On the Mac Mini adding a 10g port cost (at least in American Store) $90 upgrade!
I'm sure it was quietly added, but it wasn't today. I noticed this option last week when I was playing with Mac mini configurations. I didn't realize it was new, though.
You don't have a clue how much a decent quality 10GB network card costs, do you?
I'm very happy to see this added to the M1 Mini, although I wonder if this eats into the 40Gb bandwidth of the solo thunderbolt 4 channel.
Nice to see it also supports the NBase-T standards so it can do 2.5Gbe, & 5Gbe also if you don't have 10Gbe wiring in place yet. The 2.5/5Gbe standard works on older Cat-5e cabling.
We are just starting our upgrade to 10Gbe across the board, and are replacing lots of older Macs.
Nice to see it also supports the NBase-T standards so it can do 2.5Gbe, & 5Gbe also if you don't have 10Gbe wiring in place yet. The 2.5/5Gbe standard works on older Cat-5e cabling.
We are just starting our upgrade to 10Gbe across the board, and are replacing lots of older Macs.
Uh, this isn't new. We've several Intel Mac Mini's w/ built-in 10Gbe ethernet. They've been around for a while.
10Gbe wasn't initially offered with the M1 version of the mini. This happened recently for that product. But yes, the Intel version has offered it for awhile now.
This was one of the things that had me hold off buying it, so I'm happy to see it. Now I have to determine whether I want to wait for an M1X version you know is coming to finally bury the Intel version.
I don't think there will be a M1X. There might be a M2X at some point, but I'm going to wager a coke that Apple only does major architectural updates to the M series once a year. The first thing to be updated will be the iPhone with the latest 'A' series chip, and then after that they will roll out the new M chip based on the new A series.
The chip shortage this year canned the release of the 16" M1 MBP. This fall (post iPhone) we will see the new 14" M2 based MacBook Pro, as well as a new M2 based 16" MBP. Spring 2022 will see the new 30" (or larger) iMac based on the M2(X?) as well as the MacMini updated to M2.
The new beast of a MacPro will release Nov 2022, based on the M3, completing the 2 year transition (Nov 2020-Nov 2022).
I’m not going to try to counter any of your intel verses AS claims, that’s been done to death - but Apple do already keep intel versions of their machines available until the AS version is ready. The 16” machine you’re referring to *only* has intel versions at the moment, whilst the mini and the other AS models all still have intel options except the MacBook Air. You’re asking for something that’s already happening.
You may have seen it whilst configuring the intel versions of the Mac mini? That’s been available for years...
Where on this earth can you find a 10GbE controller?
I've worked in data centers and dealt with networking from standard GbE to QSFP28-DD over OS2, I have never seen anything close to a $3 10GbE controller.
I think it's awesome Apple is offering this again, most people have no need for 10GbE but those that do will happily pay $100 which is in line with cheap PCI-e NIC's and far below say an Intel X550-T1.
Yep. Maybe they added it with the extra room they had after removing the two TB ports.You can already with the Intel model, right?
I suppose it's possible, but I'm a technical guy and I was trying to look at m1 minis.
I think you're just not the target market for this Mac mini. The reason I want to get rid of my MBP is that I'm not using its screen at all, I have two external monitors. I don't game either or do any video/photo editing, I don't need powerful hardware, I just want it to be fast, small, and quiet. You have a 3080... The Mac mini ain't gonna touch that. But I was reading this article (https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac-trends-2021-3800044/) earlier today, they're saying since "Apple is equipping the Mac range with its own chips from the bottom up - first the entry-level models, then the inbetweeners, and finally the premium models at the end," you'll probably get the high-end chips you're looking for next year, or the year after.
The only problem with this news is that it comes too late.
And what's with that $3 dollar comment lol. On a Mac that has no PCIe slot (save for the Mac Pro), a Thunderbolt 10G dongle is like $150 upwards, either with a noisy fan or passively cooled that the unit is hot as f__k, not to mention it takes up one precious TB port. Having it built-in solves a lot of logistics problems, and it offers stability and cooling.
And what's with that $3 dollar comment lol. On a Mac that has no PCIe slot (save for the Mac Pro), a Thunderbolt 10G dongle is like $150 upwards, either with a noisy fan or passively cooled that the unit is hot as f__k, not to mention it takes up one precious TB port. Having it built-in solves a lot of logistics problems, and it offers stability and cooling.