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Mac mini 2018 Reviews Roundup: Long-Awaited Update Should Impress Fans and Pro Users, But Upgrade Options Can Get Pricey
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Ahhh. We use office 2016 with 0 problems. How is it my 9yr old hp with 6gb hddr3 runs chrome fine with no memory issues?
I will eat your hat if a third party (e.g. like OWC) doesn't make at least some accessories like this. Storage is the obvious one. eGPU I'm not sure if they'd be constrained by the size.
If that were at all relevant, the mini would have had a socketed GPU daughterboard of some sort. An external GPU box on a desktop is unforgivable.
Apple leaving out a GPU does not make a better computer than including a GPU. The mental gymnastics involved to always make Apple's actions seem good and generous are mind-blowing.
Agreed. In fact I’d bet the mini actually has as much or more cubic inches of usable space inside of it (due to its height), compared to the 15 inch macbook pro.
If you look at outside dimensions, the macbook pro is 79 cubic inches, the mini is 83 cubic inches, and the macbook pro is taking up a chunk of those cubic inches with a screen! So indeed, if a 15 inch macbook pro can fit a 6 core i7 and a great dgpu, then certainly there's space inside the mini for that as well.
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Wrong.
That would REALLY make the mini expensive.
Want a gaming GPU. Go external. The message is clear.
Do you really think those people like MacStadium, with THOUSANDS of Mac minis racked-up WITHOUT A SINGLE DISPLAY ATTACHED TO ANY OF THEM, give even the SLIGHTEST care about the GPU in the mini?
Not every one is a gamer.
Yep, OWC Mini Stack, just needs to be Space Gray and TB3
re: th eGPU, there's a modular notebook GPU spec called MXM, very small, used by Sonnet in their almost Mini sized eGPU "puck".
To save others from wasting five mins of their lives watching this. The info is:
15W at idle
50W for i7 model doing heavy lifting.
Skip to 4:20 to hear this info. There is no slide.
And all people could do was WHINE that it was a weak computer.
Almost all of them who never even saw one, let alone owned one.
Because you are on win 10 with office 16. I’m on win 7 with office 10. I can’t afford a subscription to office and I refuse to use win 10 due to forced upgrades. And I’ve been running Window since before Win 3 when it was practically a concept and an obvious attempt to rip off the Mac.
They fit a decent Radeon Pro 560 4096 MB I'm my MacBook somewhere - so I don't think it would be too difficult - it doesn't need to be a monster just a laptop version - with some cooling.
How can I have edge, firefox and chrome and still have 5.48gb out.of 6bg still usable when you have 16gb are run out of space? Just trying to understand
They keep selling the old non-retina MacBook Air for $999, but they killed the dual-core Mac mini at $499 and also at $699. Okay, no one should have bought those sluggish bastards with their spinning disks! But that’s what Fusion Drive is for, a technology to provide fast enough storage in a budget desktop computer. Why can’t we have a 2014 Mini with a 1TB Fusion Drive at a reasonable price?
No more so than the mental gymnastics involved to assume you know every use-case for a computer.
The Mac Mini also has a 65W CPU, compared to the 45W one in the MacBook Pro.
Just because they could shoehorn a discrete GPU into the Mini doesn't mean they should.
In fact - isn't the Mac Mini just the guts of a MacBook in a box without keyboard, trackpad, screen, batteries etc.
The iMac Pro was mentioned as one of the two it didn't beat, and a laptop has less thermal headroom. There is one other machine that should beat the Mac mini - the iMac - and it is outdated both wrt. CPU, graphics and design. Most thought it would be updated at the event this autumn, but it wasn't.
If I could dream, it would improve the screen, use the latest CPUs, switch to Nvidia and add FaceID. Maybe even an inch or two larger than 27".
And at the time of the event, everything except the MBP was outdated. The MacBook Air was just embarrassing (premium price for a product that was outdated 3 years ago), the iMac was outdated, the Mac mini was ancient, the MacBook is still outdated and the Mac Pro is rather out of date.
You need to adjust your thinking to:
1. 2018, not 1988. eGPU is REALLY a thing now.
2. The Mac mini's form-factor. IT ISN'T A TOWER!
3. What a Thermal Design Budget is. Look into it.
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Not this one. It is an entirely new design on the inside.
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If you wait about a month, I predict that there will be a buttload of them on eBay and CL for CHEEEEP!
I am just arguing they ‘should’ offer the choice, since they ‘could’ do it. Its up to any of us whether we’d pay for that config. I would though.
Not unless the MacBook has a 65W CPU.
In multi-core, yes.
Well, the graphics is irrelevant. The CPU is 1 generation behind.
Well, the Macbook Pro doesn't have a desktop class CPU...
The problem is, would that config be additional or in place of e.g. the i7. You might assume 'additional' but it's not like Apple has a history of tons and tons of options for these things. It's only the Mac Pro and iMac Pro lately where they've had more than 2 or 3 choices.
Because you are on win 10 with office 16. I’m on win 7 with office 10. I can’t afford a subscription to office and I refuse to use win 10 due to forced upgrades.