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Late 2014 Mac Mini Benchmarks Indicate Decreased Multi-Core Performance
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Pretty thin skinned of you to get bent out of shape over a single exclamation mark considering your use of ALL CAPS in portions of your posts.
Cool. But we all know that after each system update you have to do a bunch of custom crappy patches.
My friend, I have no time for deliberately provocative and antagonistic attitudes. With respect, I think we could both benefit from our mutually agreeing not to talk. I'm sorry you took offence to my comment(s). Might help things - thanks
I would think that was a good reason for them to push the pedal on this segment.
Why do many Mac users always have this compulsion to have to say something derisory about other platforms? It's almost as if they think THEY invented, designed and built the Mac. It seems to be a Mac cult thing... as if they're insecure, and it's "the done thing" - so they say it so as to "fit in". Hey, guess what? If Macs didn't exist, you'd be all over Windows like a rash, baby
Yeah, and that would suck
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The **** they doing with them?? I have a windows machine from 2011 still running fine. I have an imac from 2010 that had its HDD fail on me over the weekend. Swapped out the SSD and it's as good as new. Funny thing is I knew the hdd was failing, and was waiting for the awesome October Apple event to replace it with a super mini. Apple just missed out on up to $2,000.00
It's a falicy that macs last longer, it's the same damn hardware, it's just pc guys tend to upgrade more for gpu performance as more software is available to them.
And I'm not by any means a windows lover, I hate it but I use it every day and have to know it.
When people talk about Macs lasting longer they mostly are talking about laptops. In which case, most PC laptops start to literally fall to pieces at the 2 year mark.
As long as Jony Ives steps in with his accent to blow the design out of proportion, ANYONE will buy it!
Fork single core Pentium, I'll wait for Apple Mac Mini Abacus..
Hope you're listening Apple, you can get more profit with Mac Mini Abacus with beads, so much profit margins!
WOW!! Apple shares will SOAR damn.. cant wait to get my hands on Mac Mini Abacus!!
Soldered RAM, no quad core = No buy
The combination of soldered RAM, rip-off prices for RAM upgrades and discontinuation of Core i7 quad core Mac Minis broke the deal for me.
In my opinion, the new Mac Mini is too expensive for what it offers (i.e. bad value) and the only way to convey this message to Apple is to not buy it. Saved me a lot of money. Let's see if the Mac Mini 2016 will be better.
The combination of soldered RAM, rip-off prices for RAM upgrades and discontinuation of Core i7 quad core Mac Minis broke the deal for me.
In my opinion, the new Mac Mini is too expensive for what it offers (i.e. bad value) and the only way to convey this message to Apple is to not buy it. Saved me a lot of money.
Let's see if the Mac Mini 2016 will be better. The 2016 model might have a gold colour, if it has, count me in, that should make it really fast.The combination of soldered RAM, rip-off prices for RAM upgrades and discontinuation of Core i7 quad core Mac Minis broke the deal for me.
In my opinion, the new Mac Mini is too expensive for what it offers (i.e. bad value) and the only way to convey this message to Apple is to not buy it. Saved me a lot of money.
They should have a warning on this machine.
"WARNING ONLY TO BE USED FOR EMAIL"
All we need now is for the Retina iMac to have issues like the first Retina MBPs and Apple will have a perfect year of trading on its reputation, rather than great products.
Of course Apple should be all Quad core by now. It's as embarrassing as an 8MP iPhone camera for (likely) 6 years!
If Apple doesn't get the engineering/design balance fixed FAST, we'll be in the late 90s all over again. No clue what you did wrong and no idea how to fix it.
It's not Intel's fault, as much as I wish it was. It's institutional penny pinching. With Cook cheaping out on parts and the genius behind Flash taken over Bob Mansfield's solid engineering - a late 90s like crash seems inevitable based on the current course.
Tap me twice on the wrist if you agree. Sigh. Kevin Lynch? Seriously?
Of course Apple should be all Quad core by now. It's as embarrassing as an 8MP iPhone camera for (likely) 6 years!
If Apple doesn't get the engineering/design balance fixed FAST, we'll be in the late 90s all over again. No clue what you did wrong and no idea how to fix it.
It's not Intel's fault, as much as I wish it was. It's institutional penny pinching. With Cook cheaping out on parts and the genius behind Flash taken over Bob Mansfield's solid engineering - a late 90s like crash seems inevitable based on the current course.
Tap me twice on the wrist if you agree.
Sigh. Kevin Lynch? Seriously?Gold colour, rounded edges and an apple logo made of sapphire glass. That would be true value!
If they introduce the digital crown on the remote control I will be camping in front of the closest Apple store to be the first in line.
If they introduce the digital crown on the remote control I will be camping in front of the closest Apple store to be the first in line.
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I currently own a late 2009 base Mac Mini which still performs amazingly after a RAM/HD upgrade. I was really looking forward for the new minis announced on Thursday, but to my dismay, they didn't pan out to be anything I would get excited about. So next day, I went out and bought me the current Mac Mini, perhaps the last upgradeable one we will ever know! I'm looking forward for it to provide me with a good 4 to 5 years of service and hoping that by then, either Apple gets their act together or a new company comes out with a better system.
I guess Apple realized most people were buying their RAM upgrades much cheaper elsewhere, so their solution to their losing money was to handicap the mini.
-Mac user since 1989
I guess Apple realized most people were buying their RAM upgrades much cheaper elsewhere, so their solution to their losing money was to handicap the mini.
-Mac user since 1989
Hackintosh.... Even children can do it.
Yes, Yosemite is hideous. It's Vista and 8 rolled into one.
I have a mid 2011 Mini. Would increasing the RAM from 4Gb to 8Gb make a noticeable difference?
If so, Crucial has 8Gb kit for $86, which would be definitely worth iy
All we need now is for the Retina iMac to have issues like the first Retina MBPs and Apple will have a perfect year of trading on its reputation, rather than great products.
Of course Apple should be all Quad core by now. It's as embarrassing as an 8MP iPhone camera for (likely) 6 years!
If Apple doesn't get the engineering/design balance fixed FAST, we'll be in the late 90s all over again. No clue what you did wrong and no idea how to fix it.
It's not Intel's fault, as much as I wish it was. It's institutional penny pinching. With Cook cheaping out on parts and the genius behind Flash taken over Bob Mansfield's solid engineering - a late 90s like crash seems inevitable based on the current course.
Tap me twice on the wrist if you agree.
You're right on several things except the "crash".
They have built a 100 billion dollar war chest and iPhones continue to break records.
They will continue down this path because they can. Only the die hard Apple fan suffers.
Learn to build a PC and install OSX. It's quite easy, however, Yosemite looks like ass, so #
+1
it's sarcastic for sure but it's also very true...
Apple thinks that we are a bunch of superficial sheep who don't
care or just don't know about computers... They believe that
we are going to buy those Mini only because there is a fruit logo
on the hardware...
I passed my Sunday afternoon on the Newegg website... Too bad
I will probably use some "Windows hardware" with their free OS X.
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In my experience OSX is a HUGE dog with only 4gb of RAM because of the way it allocates memory.
It made a world of difference upgrading my old macbook from 4gb->8gb. An SSD later was great as well.
Apple's RAM upgrade pricing = Rip-Off
Apple's RAM upgrade pricing is simply rip-off as they charge $200 for an 8GB upgrade (from 8 to 16GB) and now prevent users from upgrading RAM by themselves. That doesn't go down well with many customers (including me). I also hope that Apple will listen more to their customers and charge reasonable prices for upgrades in future.
Crucial RAM 1x 4GB (CT4999409) $42
Crucial RAM 2x 4GB (CT4999409) $84
Crucial RAM 2x 8GB (CT3650349)$166
Apple's RAM upgrade pricing is simply rip-off as they charge $200 for an 8GB upgrade (from 8 to 16GB) and now prevent users from upgrading RAM by themselves. That doesn't go down well with many customers (including me). I also hope that Apple will listen more to their customers and charge reasonable prices for upgrades in future.
Crucial RAM 1x 4GB (CT4999409) $42
Crucial RAM 2x 4GB (CT4999409) $84
Crucial RAM 2x 8GB (CT3650349)$166
