Very nice! Hope it comes in Space Gray!
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High-End Mac Mini Said to Feature Thinner Design With 'Plexiglass' Top, Magnetic Power Port
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You know this isn’t an apple design, because the ports are unevenly spaced.
dear Tim,
put maxed out M1X/M2 in there and take my money.
put maxed out M1X/M2 in there and take my money.
Now they just need to release an affordable monitor to go with it!
Well if it has the same power brick then obviously the ethernet port won't be on the housing. Not very well thought out render.
Now if only there was a monitor besides the ridiculous $6k Pro XDR to plug this into.
Now if only there was a monitor besides the ridiculous $6k Pro XDR to plug this into.
I'm ok with a external power brick on a Mac mini this size. But you are still thinking in the terms of an Intel CPU's when it comes to the fan. Even if they put a CPU with double the power of the M1 in a mini this size they would not need a big or powerful fan. It's just not needed with an ARM cpu with the power requirements we have seen so far.
As I said in an earlier post, if Apple uses GaN based components for the power stage it will not need any cooling, heck, the old mini power stage does not have active cooling AFAIK.
So, we have here 4 USB-C ports, of which only 2 can be used at the same time, given the thickness of the plugs of any peripherals worth talking about. Also, soldered RAM and SSD.
Might be tough to put a full 10GbE ethernet inside a power brick..
Depends on how fast it's being clocked and the work being done. I'd rather have a faster processor and external power brick. And no fan, of any size.
again, no internal heat...24" imac vs intel one as well..you have a point with GaN..but still
You still have a cable so, irrelevant that you have a power brick as well
Inside power brick are so 90
The only mac that will use internal power brick should be the mac pro...
It could be because they are planning to introduce two-tone colors, like the new iMac
Conductive charging maybe?? Imagine how cool it would be to charge your iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch on top of the Mac Mini!
I'd really like more vertical redesign that takes up less desk space than the current mini.
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It's also oddly inconsistent with Apple's other design decisions. SSD - integrated. RAM - integrated. WiFi, bluetooth, GPU, all the controllers - integrate it all. Power supply? Nah, let's make that modular and external. It makes no sense.
The render is a clown show, but the concept is great, I hope it is really coming.
It can make a lot of sense for some applications where heat and fan reliability are concerns.
It's not inconsistent. Rather, it is absolutely consistent with the entire Mac product line. The same power cable is likely going to work for all Macs...laptop and desktop.
These power adapters are easy to hide and bury under a desk or on an under-desk shelf. If it makes for a better Mac in the same or smaller footprint by offloading such a piece, that is better.
Anyone found the wrong logic in the rendering plus external power brick?
Will then have the ethernet jack in the brick, not the Mac. As with the new iMacs...
Will then have the ethernet jack in the brick, not the Mac. As with the new iMacs...
Because this is a poor render.
Lower cost to manufacture, lower material costs because of less aluminum, smaller packaging, lower shipping costs. Thats a whole lot of savings....for Apple. If it still comes with an M1 at the $699 starting price, its lame. If they can pass off the savings and put in a faster chip at that price, I will buy one just because its a good deal. If they do what they always do with ipads, introduce the model that should replace the previous years as a different model and charge more for it instead of upgrading an outdated model with a new one while keeping the same price, they can stick it up.....in the shelf again, I'll wait to buy it used and give someone else the money.
Well, yes and no, not having a screen means AS Mac Mini's are the absolute lowest wattage Mac's ever released, I think by itself it could be powered by a 10W usb-c mini-brick, like the one you use to charge your phone, but, and this might be the reasoning, we have USB4/Thunderbolt, so even if the machine itself sips power, you have to provide power to up to 6 devices (2 usb A, 4 thunderbolt) according to spec.
Agreed. It's a pretty design, but I *don't* want an easily-removable power cord for anything that isn't battery-powered. Phones, laptops, awesome choice. Desktop or monitor? Nope.