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High-End 'M1X' Mac Mini With New Design and Additional Ports Expected to Launch in the 'Next Several Months'
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Apple seems to be only mildly affected by the chip shortages. It seems to get all the chips it needs, just delayed by 3-6 months. And it doesn’t have any problem getting the M1s since it has sewn up the fab starts. So any problems are caused by other chips.
It's great to see the Mac Mini getting more attention than it has in the past, but Apple really needs to stop screwing about and launch the 27" iMac replacement already.
You do realize that the ram of the M1 is hardware limited to 16GB, so therefor the M1 is not good enough already if you want higher RAM capacity
Indeed. to say nothing about the fact that it moves ram in and out so fast it make it seem like one has 32 gigs on a 16 gig machine
It really doesn't. If your working set is 32gigs, you need 32gigs of memory or you will pay for it with the thrashing.
interesting. so if something needs to be held in 32 gigs that would be different than multiple apps using smaller portions of ram that need to be swapped in and out as apps do their thing?
Nope, there can be very good reasons to downgrade. I downgraded from Lion to Snow Leopard because they changed the font rendering in going from SL to L. At the time I had an ~100 ppi external monitor and, at that dot pitch, SL rendered text more sharply than L.
And that pro video company had a lot of software issues with Catalina, whereas with Mojave everything worked well for them.
Wasn't there an article last week saying Apple will be pushing M1X products into next year the chip isn't ready? Chip making is a slow process that trying to rush can get very expensive. Apple being so obsessed with profit margins they don't like the word expensive.
Apple can be expected to launch an updated high-end Mac mini with a new design and a faster "M1X" Apple silicon processor in the "next several months," Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.
In the latest publication of his Power On newsletter, Gurman writes that a new high-end Mac mini, which has previously been reported to feature a new design with additional ports, can be expected to replace the current Intel Mac mini in "the next several months." This presumably means the new Mac mini may launch alongside the redesigned 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros this fall. As Gurman writes:
Apple leaker Jon Prosser in May shared renders of what the upcoming Mac mini may look like, and according to those renders, allegedly based on images from internal Apple sources, the new Mac mini will feature a "plexiglass" top and a magnetic power port. The new Mac mini is also rumored to feature additional ports.
This fall, Apple is preparing to launch several new products, including the iPhone 13, Apple Watch Series 7, a new iPad mini, an updated baseline iPad, new AirPods, and completely redesigned 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros. With Gurman's new reporting today, Apple may launch its new MacBook Pros alongside the new Mac mini at a fully focused Mac Apple silicon event. Apple last year held an event focused on the M1 Apple silicon chip in November.
Article Link: High-End 'M1X' Mac Mini With New Design and Additional Ports Expected to Launch in the 'Next Several Months'
There are scientific applications that really do need their entire dataset resident in memory at the same time, and can't effectively be treated by paging in and out smaller subsections in a divide-and-conquer style.
Considering the ratio, you probably already know, but the mini is far from "entry level". There's a number of people who use Mac minis in a non-entry level scenario:
- As an app builder / runner for development
- As a development machine for developer that already have a high end monitor
- As a test device to make sure the entire environment is controlled
It's the reason why many high end users have been asking how heavy demand apps like FCPX and Xcode run on these machines. We have our displays and equipment - we just need the machine to go with it. And no - going MBP / iMac / iMac Pro / Mac Pro would be overkill options with items attached we don't need.
What's a pain about running it headless? I have one that has been headless for all but initial setup.
...but then so far the M1 machines have all appeared at the same price as the Intel machines they replaced, despite outperforming them significantly in all respects apart from max RAM and external display support. The Mini even got a price cut and the iMac got a better screen. So the "faster machines" currently due are the replacements for the higher price tiers. Not that I like every detail of the new machines (esp. the non-upgradeable RAM) but so far it doesn't look like the agenda is price hikes.
It does using Display Link. Check out plugable.com
I have one setup to run 3 55" displays in a corporate setup.
Yah. i am thinking a maxed out macbook pro 16" might come in a couple of hundred of dollars cheaper (if you buy larger size SSD)
Q1 or Q2 of 2022. Something tells me the display is the hold up, like the display is the hold up on the 14”/16” MBPs.
I'm all ready for this or an iMac Slightly-More-Pro. It's mainly the RAM that's holding me back now. I'd take almost any Apple Silicon machine with 64GB now to replace my ageing 2009 Mac Pro.
It all depends on memory usage patterns. But there are a lot of things that need random access to more than 16 gigs.
I wish they would eliminate the atrociously designed circular bottom opening. The Mac mini should have had a full size bottom panel that would unscrew to give easy access to all the components. The circular opening made swapping out drives a completely unnecessary pain in the ass (admittedly this may be moot with how small the m1 chipset is but we'll see.
An m1x Mac mini with easily accessible slots for m2 SSDs and additional RAM slots would be a huge hit (and more ports). Imagine an m1x Mac mini with two to four m2 (or u2) expansion slots. The low power usage combined with expandable, high-speed storage would make it a desirable server option.
An m1x Mac mini with easily accessible slots for m2 SSDs and additional RAM slots would be a huge hit (and more ports). Imagine an m1x Mac mini with two to four m2 (or u2) expansion slots. The low power usage combined with expandable, high-speed storage would make it a desirable server option.
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