Mac Mini and Mac Pro are Apple's Last Two Remaining Intel Macs With Launch of Mac Studio

[iGeek2019]

I used to have the 2018 Mac Mini, out of interest were the Bluetooth issues resolved with the introduction of the M1? That’s one thing I don’t miss about it… using a Magic Mouse and wondering if it was going to keep dropping out half way through something ?

 

[jjrtiger]

probably nobody, which is why they still have stock to sell. ?

Probably people/enterprises who need x86 virtualization

 

[BeatCrazy]

I have a feeling, that there wont be an M2 CPU this year.

It can happen, that in Fall the Mac Pro gets a combination of 2x M1 Ultra SoC or such with additional options for different PCI Express cards and maybe optional dedicated (Radeon) GPUs. But we'll have to wait and see.

I hear ya on the 'no M2 this year' theory.

But dedicated/Radeon graphics? Nah... M1 Ultra is already positioned as strong enough GPU to to head-to-head with a RTX-3090, and they compared it favorably against the top spec Radeon in the Mac Pro. Ain't no way they're going to give you the ability to slot in something that's going to be worse than what they can give you on-chip.

 

[BeatCrazy]

I used to have the 2018 Mac Mini, out of interest were the Bluetooth issues resolved with the introduction of the M1? That’s one thing I don’t miss about it… using a Magic Mouse and wondering if it was going to keep dropping out half way through something ?

The M1 Mac mini got much better with 12.1+ regarding Bluetooth.

 

[dmercer08]

I may be the only person who bought an intel Mac Mini in 2022 ?. I do a lot of work in windows and Linux still. I was looking for a relatively inexpensive machine with decent specs to replace my aging 2014 mbp retina. The M1 chips still don’t play nice with with windows and Linux, tho they are making some headway with Linux, plus the 16gb max ram on the M1 mini is trash lol. Luckily I was able to find a used intel I7 Mac mini with 32gb of ram and a 1tb SSD for $1100 on eBay, still has a year of apple care + left. I’m sure I’ll regret this purchase when ever they introduce a M1 Mac mini with higher ram capabilities but I’m content for now ??

 

[Maximara]

I may be the only person who bought an intel Mac Mini in 2022 ?. I do a lot of work in windows and Linux still. I was looking for a relatively inexpensive machine with decent specs to replace my aging 2014 mbp retina. The M1 chips still don’t play nice with with windows and Linux, tho they are making some headway with Linux, plus the 16gb max ram on the M1 mini is trash lol. Luckily I was able to find a used intel I7 Mac mini with 32gb of ram and a 1tb SSD for $1100 on eBay, still has a year of apple care + left. I’m sure I’ll regret this purchase when ever they introduce a M1 Mac mini with higher ram capabilities but I’m content for now ??

Windows not playing nice with the M1 is true - using UTM is not exactly fun (unless you want to loose most of the speed the M1 provides) but Linux surprises me. There should be several M1 ARM builds out there given Linux is now ‘usable as a basic desktop’ for M1 Macs was published Oct. 7th 2021.

 

[adam25255]

Probably not too many, but a few things I can think of:

• Still use a 32-bit app that has been abandoned by the developer. Only Intel Macs can do this, and only by virtualizing Mojave or earlier.
• Some other dependency on software that doesn't work on Apple Silicon for some reason. Virtualizing x64 Windows or dual booting.
• $300 cheaper than comparable Mac Studio if you need more than 16 GB memory and memory is your only bottleneck. $1699 vs $1999 for 32 GB, $2099 vs $2399 for 64 GB.
• You really need that shorter form factor and more than 16 GB???

Yeah, not many at all.

2018 Mini and Mac Pro can run Mojave natively.