dogslobber
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I thought the latest ARM iPhones were quads. That bodes well for more powerful Minis in coming years.
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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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I thought the latest ARM iPhones were quads. That bodes well for more powerful Minis in coming years.
bse5150
macrumors 6502
I don't always wait for new Mac Minis, but when I do...
Apple fanboy
macrumors Ivy Bridge
I must have missed the new Mac mini bit.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-unlock-universal-clipboard-and-more.1998982/
DesertSurfer
macrumors 6502a
This either means that Mac OS Sierra will run on all Mac mini's or no Mac mini's I guess. Or it's just a sign of blatant disrespect for the mini. Or, the Mac mini is dead.
It looks like my early 2011 MacBook Pro may not be able to run the next version of Mac OS (10.3, Donner Pass).
DesertSurfer
macrumors 6502a
Crosscreek
macrumors 68030
I think it's a sex toy.😱
By the way you or somebody here wanted to know how Sierra runs on my hack.....Perfect. 🙂
philipma1957
macrumors 604
I got my lenovo m700 for a 299 price a labor day sale. it has the g4400t cpu a 4gb stick of ram and a 128gb ssd.
I am testing it and so far it runs well. I will jack the ram to 16gb and swap out the 128gb samsung ssd for a 2tb samsung ssd. lastly I will upgrade cpu from g4400t to a i5 6500t I have . I know I can do the ram and ssd I will have to find out if I can pull the cpu and upgrade it. but the ram and ssd are easy. I am not a fan of windows 10 but for now I may stick with it.
I am testing it and so far it runs well. I will jack the ram to 16gb and swap out the 128gb samsung ssd for a 2tb samsung ssd. lastly I will upgrade cpu from g4400t to a i5 6500t I have . I know I can do the ram and ssd I will have to find out if I can pull the cpu and upgrade it. but the ram and ssd are easy. I am not a fan of windows 10 but for now I may stick with it.
Crosscreek
macrumors 68030
I find Windows 10 more usefully for me anyways. I still prefer the aesthetics of OS X. I spend much more time in Windows and find it fast and efficient on resources.
navaira
macrumors 601
I was installing Win 10 for a client and I thought "this is beautiful actually" until I got to the Control Panel.
Crosscreek
macrumors 68030
Best thing you can do with the control panel is trash everything you don't want and put in the apps you use or just use the scroll menu.
MythicFrost
macrumors 68040
I really hope the new Mini is a quad-core...
Nah, it's not a quad-core. It has two dual-cores and switches between them.
Dameatball
macrumors regular
Crosscreek
macrumors 68030
Maybe that's why I don't mind it. I don't have to spend all day on it and can bounce between OS X, Linux and Windows.
One of the perks for being retired. 🙂
Dameatball
macrumors regular
If the new mini's have quad core intel's, they're going to cost a ridiculous amount. the 2012 will be the last of its kind, affordable and powerful (they were $799). New Intel processors get good speeds for a dual core chip (not the same of course) coupled better graphics, I'm pretty sure we won't see it unfortunately (if we see another mini at all). Apple's focus is clearly on their phablets and planned obsolescence model.
I can live with dual core, if the GPU is also powerful enough to make up the difference using Open CL, so the overall grunt is comparable to the 2012 quad (for video processing, at least).
Maybe that is what Apple are thinking for the Mini, when iGPUs get powerful enough.
Maybe.
Maybe that is what Apple are thinking for the Mini, when iGPUs get powerful enough.
Maybe.
Crosscreek
macrumors 68030
dogslobber
macrumors 601
It'll be interesting to compare El Cap/Intel to Sierra/ARM next month when the 2016 machines are released.
jpietrzak8
macrumors 65816
Nah, what Apple is thinking for the Mini is simply "entry level". If you want a Mac that has any serious processing power at all, they'll redirect you to the iMac. They'll make sure that the Mini doesn't ever get competitive with the iMac.
Well then give us an iMac without screen to spend our money on, I accept that I need to spend more money on something that has more processing power, but the prices for the iMac's are ridiculous if you already have a perfectly fine monitor.
jpietrzak8
macrumors 65816
What, and lose all that extra profit??? Unthinkable! 😉
Apple likes to hide its various development costs within its hardware packages. The more that they can combine all their software and hardware development into a single indivisible package, the easier it is for them to justify the markups they desire. (And this concept goes all the way back to Jobs' original Mac design.)
I think Apple reached their own nirvana when they broke into the cell phone market. An incredibly expensive all-in-one device that users are happy to purchase and then simply throw into the trash a year or two later, only to buy another one. Macs are being driven towards this model as well...
Which one? 😉 I never know which setting is in the new "Settings" and which in the old control panel. Really confusing. The UI is still schizophrenic between the "modern" style (does anyone actually use that on a computer with keyboard and mouse?) and the classic desktop. Then there's the fact that you need to check dozens of settings and group policies to turn off all the privacy violations and ads (and even then you can't turn telemetry off completely). Since the 1607 update you can't even turn off the lock screen anymore, which is completely useless on a computer. You also no longer can prevent Microsoft from forcibly installing apps in your start menu as part of the "consumer experience".
On the other hand, Bash on Windows (which was also introduced in the 1607 udpate) is pretty cool. Finally a real shell, and it works pretty well.
Overall I still much prefer Mac OS (which makes me even more sad about the topic of this thread and similar ones in the Mac Pro forum 🙁).
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Well they could even make even more (or the same) profits by just removing the costs they make for the screen, and sell us an overpriced mac mini, I am sad to say that I would still buy it 😛
StoneJack
macrumors 68040
You must be joking.
Doing 236 or so updates, dealing with DLLs and whatever can't be that fun. However, some people prefer pain..
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Crosscreek
macrumors 68030
I can remember Windows being a mess ....believe me. I've worked in the Windows environment since the first release and DOS before that as a mechanical engineer.
I've run Windows 10 since the first insider release 2 years ago along side OS X in Parallels and watched it mature and have had no issues with it at all. It's not the Widows of yesterday but like all OSs requires security patches and updates. It runs very efficiently and fast.
I still prefer the aesthetics of macOS and the security of Linux and playtime in Windows. Just my own opinion tho.