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Deals Spotlight: B&H Photo Offers Low Prices on MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, and Mac mini for Green Monday

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Today is Green Monday, another shopping event that offers savings on electronics and other products as we get closer to the holidays. At B&H Photo, this means you can get all-time-low prices on the 13-inch MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, and Mac mini.

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You can find all of these sales in the lists below, and browse even more discounts at B&H Photo on the retailer's website. Given the limited run of the event, many of these deals are expected to expire either later tonight or sometime this week, so check out the discounts soon.

2019 13-Inch MacBook Pro

2019 13-Inch MacBook Air

2018 Mac mini

2019 iMac

Check out our Deals Roundup for more holiday shopping ideas.

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I still think these MacBooks (Pro and Air) and the Mini are too expensive for what they offer. Tiny hard drives, slow RAM, throttling or bad heat management, bad keyboards, I just could not justify it.

Since it has been pointed out before: I do need storage, I cannot rely on cloud services. My line of work requires enormous file sizes and often field work where cloud services are useless.
 
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GeoStructural said:
I still think these MacBooks (Pro and Air) and the Mini are too expensive for what they offer. Tiny hard drives, slow RAM, throttling or bad heat management, bad keyboards, I just could not justify it.

Since it has been pointed out before: I do need storage, I cannot rely on cloud services. My line of work requires enormous file sizes and often field work where cloud services are useless.
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Not to mention previous generation processors.
 
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Ok guys and gals...

I'm ready for a new headless mac mini. I bought a used one just over a year ago, I believe it is a 2010, and its working great as a pseudo server and running Home Assistant which we use mostly just as a bridge to bring non-HomeKit compatible devices into the Home app. Luna either doesn't play well with this older mini or it just doesn't work well at all using my iPad Pro as a remote monitor. My next move is a new, or newer, mac mini, USB-C.

All of that out of the way, we need decent storage on this pseudo server, I have a 1TB hybrid drive in the current setup and its not maxed out, but dropping to 512 wouldn't be enough storage either.

When you start adding large hard drives to the USB-C mini's the price just goes through the roof, these machines are also rarely on sale. I'm glad that the RAM is user-replaceable on the USB-C mini's but the hard drive isn't.

What am I missing here? Should I just consider a bare-bones USB-C mac mini and use an external hard drive for media storage? Is anyone currently doing this? We stream media content from the pseudo server to 3 Apple TV's.
 
GeoStructural said:
I still think these MacBooks (Pro and Air) and the Mini are too expensive for what they offer. Tiny hard drives, slow RAM, throttling or bad heat management, bad keyboards, I just could not justify it.

Since it has been pointed out before: I do need storage, I cannot rely on cloud services. My line of work requires enormous file sizes and often field work where cloud services are useless.
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The 8 TB SSD is too tiny?
 
GeoStructural said:
I still think these MacBooks (Pro and Air) and the Mini are too expensive for what they offer. Tiny hard drives, slow RAM, throttling or bad heat management, bad keyboards, I just could not justify it.

Since it has been pointed out before: I do need storage, I cannot rely on cloud services. My line of work requires enormous file sizes and often field work where cloud services are useless.
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The 13” Pro with 256GB is pretty good for many people. Not everyone works with large files. I think it is a better consumer Mac than the Air.
 
Mac mini definitely needs a CPU update at this point, as ninth-gen i3s have turbo boost now. 10th-gen Comet Lake S next year will even have SMT thanks to pressure from Ryzen.
 
redheeler said:
For a Core i3 and integrated graphics it's bad. If I were in the market for one, I'd be waiting for a couple hundred off as a minimum.
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Core i3 will be pretty good come Comet Lake as it will be 4-core/8-thread around 3.7GHz aka the Core i7 7700. But the iGPU will still be a 24 EU GT2.
 
With the next refresh Apple needs to double the base SSD to 256 GB as well, that goes for both the Mac mini and MacBook Air. With the 16" MacBook Pro they are finally waking up and realizing that people want larger SSDs now that even the faster NVMe ones are no longer cost-prohibitive enough to charge circa 2013 prices for.
 
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Of course, just bought a Mac mini for $999 like 3 days ago, and now it's $70 less.
 
imola.zhp said:
Ok guys and gals...

I'm ready for a new headless mac mini. I bought a used one just over a year ago, I believe it is a 2010, and its working great as a pseudo server and running Home Assistant which we use mostly just as a bridge to bring non-HomeKit compatible devices into the Home app. Luna either doesn't play well with this older mini or it just doesn't work well at all using my iPad Pro as a remote monitor. My next move is a new, or newer, mac mini, USB-C.

All of that out of the way, we need decent storage on this pseudo server, I have a 1TB hybrid drive in the current setup and its not maxed out, but dropping to 512 wouldn't be enough storage either.

When you start adding large hard drives to the USB-C mini's the price just goes through the roof, these machines are also rarely on sale. I'm glad that the RAM is user-replaceable on the USB-C mini's but the hard drive isn't.

What am I missing here? Should I just consider a bare-bones USB-C mac mini and use an external hard drive for media storage? Is anyone currently doing this? We stream media content from the pseudo server to 3 Apple TV's.
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Not really relevant to the topic at hand, but I think you'd be better off with a newer, pre-owned Mac mini. The entry level cost is too high to justify for something that is going to be used as a "pseudo" server. Personally, I'm using a 2011 Lenovo IdeaCentre that I upgraded from a Pentium to an I5, with 16GB of RAM, and 16TB of spinning drive space. OS is installed on a PNY SSD. I've only had one small hiccup, and that is when the 250 watt power supply died on me.

If I wasn't running that, I'd be using my 2012 Mac mini - Core I5. It's only dual core, but it has 16 GB of ram and is more than enough for streaming to AppleTV.

You could also consider potentially setting up a NAS with a Plex Server installed on it.
 
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