10GB Ethernet is available as an option on the current M1 Mac mini, so I see no reason it won't be available on a higher end mini. The Gig Ethernet is astonishingly fast on Verizon Fios. I regularly pull down in excess of 900Mbps on my Mini with a Gigabit connection.
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Apple Working on High-End Mac Mini With Additional Ports and More Powerful Chip From Next-Gen MacBook Pro
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Fascinated by the number of people who need 3 monitors on an imac. I’ve never seen such a setup in the wild. Must be popular, though.
It will be a bigger imac, not an iMac Pro. More professional colors, though.
Glad to hear Apple is still interested in the Mac mini. My 2012 Mac mini is still hanging in there, and I’m happy to keep it as long as it can go because I have some software on it that requires me to stick with Mojave. I’ve always been a fan of the Mac mini since my first Mac purchase in 2006 which was a Mac mini.
You are lucky your software works, because a lot will not.
Parallels is:
1.Using Windows for Arm(to run in a VM on an M1
2.Windows for Arm then emulates for x86 to run those apps.
There is no virtualization of regular Windows.
It's not M2 based (which I agree would be great - honestly surprised OWC haven't updated the Mini stack) but there's a Chinese thing I see here on the equivalent of Amazon, which is USB-C upstream, some USB 3.x and 2.x downstream + a couple of card reader slots and an internal 2.5" SATA bay. Still haven't ordered one yet to try but it's tempting.
This thread is about Mac minis though.
I use articulate 360 for e-authoring online learning courses for my work - thank goodness that works flawlessly. I usually have to use vmware on my mac pro 5,1 with windows on there. But prefer a laptop when i'm running around.
I remember installing winzip and the whole aram windows started screen blinking and crashed. I am curious to see if there is place that shows ARM apps for windows that are compatible. Also - installed calman color monitor that worked fine.
So far I've been very happy with my M1 mini. But I could be tempted by a model that had 32 graphic cores. The bottleneck right now seems to be Thunderbolt; current external devices can't take advantage of the M1's speed.
I look forward to see how the second Mac mini releases does. This kinda gels with the rumor of a smaller Mac Pro models using Apple Silicon. We might be seeing a return to the headless Macs in the near future, where its sets up a nice marketplace of many external devices such as displays, hubs, storage, and peripherals.
10G ethernet will be an obvious add-on for all the professional level machines, like we have seen with the mini.
More valuable, I think, would be to establish 2.5G as the baseline, as the minimum in every machine they ship. This would start to establish critical mass for everything else like hubs and routers.
2.5G (at the basic chip level) is now cheap enough (a dollar or so more than a 1Gb chip) that Apple can easily afford to set this as the new minimum standard.
what for? there are almost no apps for Win ARM... and in two years from now, Macs will have all the apps available, cause it is getting total success...
Mac mini’s have exist for ages, what do you mean the return of the headless mac?I look forward to see how the second Mac mini releases does. This kinda gels with the rumor of a smaller Mac Pro models using Apple Silicon. We might be seeing a return to the headless Macs in the near future, where its sets up a nice marketplace of many external devices such as displays, hubs, storage, and peripherals.
inb4 "whhhhyyyyyyyyyyyy do you want 10GbE????? you cant even get 10Gb internet LOL!!!"
i was slightly afraid of the notion that apple might consider bumping the spec on the mac mini when their 2nd iteration M chip launched for the macbook pros & such. but for the use case i just bought one for, it's perfectly fine.
i think apple has a financially opportunity to really capitalize on FOMO when it comes to the upgradability of their machines that use M chips, and i caution people to strongly consider their use cases before diving in on upgrades or feeling like they *have* to have the new upcoming model.
microcenter had the 16gb ram M1 mini on sale for $100 off, so i grabbed it, and it's magnificent.
Lmao. I can’t wait for a mini with the latest Qualcomm 5g modem in….
I'm curious to see a Mac "Nano": just a small stick with a male HDMI port on the end. Plug it into a TV or monitor, plug in power and that's it. No other ports whatsoever. Everything else is connected wirelessly. Same could be said for the AppleTV. I don't know if I'd get one, but it would be interesting.
I love that the Mac Mini is finally getting some love and attention from Apple.