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Sleek Concept Imagines New Mac Mini in Space Gray With Apple Display and Magic Keyboard With Touch Bar
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On the iPhone you get the new one in the mail and a kit to send the old one back. You also have a grace window until sending it back to get everything transferred over, etc. So the same could be done for the Mac. You just connect a cable between them and there's a migration assistant. Then you can trash the encryption on your old Mac when you wipe it and nothing will be recovered, like the iPhone reset procedure. This would assume you have filevault turned on, which I'm not sure why someone wouldn't with how fast SSDs and CPUs are these days.
No please don’t show concept images on news boards. Especially when they’re not based in anything but a student’s wishful thinking.
If I want concept images I’d google it or go to pinterest or something.
If I want concept images I’d google it or go to pinterest or something.
well, current mac mini chasis is fine for its internals, but significant improvement should be:
- 4-6 core option
- 8-16 RAM basic
- 512 GB SSD basic, NVMe option
- ports update, FW drop out, TB3 added, 10GB ethernet
- combined card reader slot and jack out remains.
space gray color as option, btw.
- 4-6 core option
- 8-16 RAM basic
- 512 GB SSD basic, NVMe option
- ports update, FW drop out, TB3 added, 10GB ethernet
- combined card reader slot and jack out remains.
space gray color as option, btw.
I had FileVault turned on prior to Sierra on my 27” 2013 iMac, but I had to shut it off for Sierra to run on my machine.
I always wipe my drives completely, but never can be too cautious.
Thanks for pointing this out.
Next Mac with SSD will have FileVault on again.
Meanwhile, big surprise, human fingers and ergonomics work just as they always have. Turns out key travel was there for a reason and banging one's fingers on keys with no travel is incredibly unpleasant. On a laptop, there's some flimsy justification ("it's thinner!") but on a desktop, why?
On a desktop, of course, it doesn't entirely matter. If I bought a Mac and it came with a crap keyboard I'd put it on eBay immediately.
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I expect quad but would prefer hexa-core. If both were available it would be nice but I think we’ll get one or the other.
16GB/512 SSD is $400 more than 8/256. No point in running up the price of the entry level model unnecessarily, 8/256 is sufficient for many. NVMe burns 4 PCIe lanes for something most wouldn’t use. I’d be extremely surprised if Apple supported it.
FW is already gone; TB3 is a given, could be 2 or 4 ports I’d guess 2; 10GbE would be used by few and would add too much heat. It would be more appropriately supported externally via TB3 for those who need it. So 10/100/1Gb.
I think it’ll have headphone/optical digital audio output and could possibly have the card reader but probably not. Four USB 3 type A.
What makes one group’s renderings more favorable than others, relative to being featured on the much coveted front page of macrumors? I’ve seen tons of mocked up renderings of what could and could not be from average joes. What is different about this rendering that makes it special? It’s not particularly ground-breaking, creative, or even well done.
That is overkill for most people. A 128 GB SSD would be fine for the majority of users and would keep prices down. Users who want more can upgrade beyond 128 GB if they choose.
I guess the artist got a fresh stock of grey pixels. And can copy-paste ports. Nice work, if you can get it!
It isn't for "most people". If we are to believe the meager pre-publicity, it's for Professionals, whatever that means.
I guess they mean mainly graphics professionals, engineers, etc.
My interest is as a software developer. I still use a late 2012 4-core i7 Mini.
None of the options because discussed are attractive for that purpose. 128GB SSD is WAY too small. Then, you're back to Fusion Drive for any practical professional purpose.
I've retrofitted a 1GB SSD to my old Mini. Makes all the difference in the world. But at ~450MB/sec, while it's way faster than the original Fusion Drive, it's also WAY slower than current inbuilt flash drives on Macbooks, iMac.
I imagine there won't be expandable memory. Given that, 8-18GB is too small. There needs to be a 32 or 64GB option.
6-core would be an OK baseline. I'd be looking for 8 or more.
For software development, you need:
- fast flash drive
- lots of RAM
- as many cores as possible
Single-core performance is not so important.
Graphics performance is not so important, BUT ability to drive multiple high-resolution displays is. For a software-development focused edition, then perhaps 3D graphics performance can be compromised.
The package SHOULD grow, at least for a "performance" edition. The current package is too small and thermal design inadequate for any significant performance improvement.
Yeah, I don't buy a new Mac frequently enough, so when I get a new one, I usually start over fresh and import while files I need and archive the rest. Things tend to get bogged down over time otherwise. If I updated more frequently on some kind of a program, I'd definitely consider using the migration assistant—at least every other time.
I love what I see, but I'm so jaded by Apple that I look at the ports and just can't believe they'd ever be that generous. I think it would be more realistic to drop the USB A ports, remove the SD card slot, remove the HDMI (Don't want to compete with Apple TV, right?) and then only have 2 USB C/Thunderbolt ports. That's more what I would expect from Apple. I hope I am surprised and proven wrong tomorrow morning!
I wouldn’t be surprised if none of this appears tomorrow. We’ve been waiting for a new Mac mini forever, why would things change now? It’s hard to believe that the model that got me to switch from windows to a Mac is held with such little regard to Apple.
It's not even a "rumor". Some rando darkens a picture of an existing Mac Mini and that's something we're supposed to pay attention to now? Please.
I had to wipe this iMac’s drive more than once which probably meant lots of clutter left behind, but that is sound advice.
I think I am just so used to Macs simply working that I’ve forgotten a lot of this stuff.
It is important to know, so thanks for posting.
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Also the city that the event takes place is in the Big Apple. So I expect a large Mac Pro
Thankfully the Mac Mini isn't supplied with a keyboard, my biggest gripe with the new MBP's is that i'm forced to pay money for that useless TouchBar - At least with the Mini I woudn't be forced to buy a stupid touchbar keyboard like with iMacs - the first thing that happens to Apple keyboards + Mice when the machine hits the desk is they go in the bin where they belong.
Also, lol @ the 8K display comments.
Didn't we learn any lesson in the early digital camera era? Everyone went stupid for megapixels, but everything looked like plasticy **** because the CCDs were crap and didn't store nearly enough quality colour information, but the manufacturers just kept piling more pixels in as the selling point, because it's what marketing wanted.
Even so, now we're still blindly pushing forward into 8K territory, because we're stupid. I'd rather see 4000 nit displays as a minimum and wider ACES colour gamuts at 4K instead of 8K any day of the week.
Also, lol @ the 8K display comments.
Didn't we learn any lesson in the early digital camera era? Everyone went stupid for megapixels, but everything looked like plasticy **** because the CCDs were crap and didn't store nearly enough quality colour information, but the manufacturers just kept piling more pixels in as the selling point, because it's what marketing wanted.
Even so, now we're still blindly pushing forward into 8K territory, because we're stupid. I'd rather see 4000 nit displays as a minimum and wider ACES colour gamuts at 4K instead of 8K any day of the week.
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Doesn’t that Mini look great without a power cord? But I see he still put a 120v connector on the back. Boooo! Give it a USB C power connector and battery!
What you are describing is a Mac Pro. A new one will be released in 2019.
A Mac Mini that comes standard with 512 GB SSD and an octocore CPU is a pipe dream. If there were such a machine released it would simply be a Mac Pro rebranded as a Mac Mini.
I'll be disappointed if they DO ruin the Magic keyboard with that awful TouchBar.
i said nothing even close to that. but nice try.
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page hits. that's basically why any website does anything. and it worked, you hit the page to come comment about the issue thus they scored one more page hit for all their ad blocks. just like they wanted