Someone beat you to that idea: https://www.zdnet.com/article/raspb...os-to-use-10000-tiny-boards-to-test-software/
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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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No shame in getting beat by Los Alamos.
Besides, people have been stringing together multiple cheap computers to get power since at least the mid 1980's.
I'm not about to try this, but it'd be nice to know if there are sufficiently detailed instructions on the net or elsewhere to carry out the build.
So far, I am starting to think the Mac Mini is already a funny meme in Cupertino. Even more, people walk around there, in the hallways, and someone says "Mac Mini" and the rest crack in laughter, teary-eyed and all.
It's a big pity, really.
"The Mac mini is an important product in our lineup...
...it drives a bunch of people on macrumors.com around the bend."
I have a few lenovo.
add a second stick of 16 gb ram and you have a 20gb ram monster.
I run my lenovo 24/7/365 mining on the cpu in the background
Mine has the i7 6700t
Apple mac mini is a sad joke.
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add a second stick of 16 gb ram and you have a 20gb ram monster.
I run my lenovo 24/7/365 mining on the cpu in the background
Mine has the i7 6700t
Apple mac mini is a sad joke.
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Is that the one with the optional backdoor, or does it come standard?
I think the laughter is mostly because people are walking into the glass walls.
No idea why you keep barking on about the price being $899...
The base $499 mini should have 8GB RAM and (some) flash storage as standard. That is not an unreasonable expectation in 2018.
When one puts form over function, then the glass walls thing starts happening. So sad. That can really hurt people. Someone really should have seen that coming.
That's why they have the glass walls!
If you quit your C-level trolling and read what is being written, you wouldn't find it the least bit puzzling.
Then again, the concept of technology advancing over time seems to completely baffle you, so maybe you aren't trolling.
Why you picked 2014 as the year technology stopped advancing forever (in your mind) well... now that does baffle me.
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Shhhh... this is beyond him. In his mind, it is still 2014. Let's just consider ourselves lucky he thinks it is 2014 instead of 1987, because then a 8GB stick of RAM would cost $278,000 in his mind.
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I was wondering, while thinking about the new MacPro and eGPUs and the MacMini, what if Apple doesn’t want people to use a thunderbolt 3 macmini + 2-4 eGPUs to crunch ridicolous amounts of calculations (in the professional fields where GPUs can be used in such a manner) and by virtue of this we will never see a full sized thunderbolt 3 MacMini (that would eat part of the new MacPro lunch)?
A usb-c-only puck-sized Mini based on the 12” Macbook hardware would still be possible.
A usb-c-only puck-sized Mini based on the 12” Macbook hardware would still be possible.
Apple pulled in a large group of buyers in the early 2000s who had not been Mac owners when it became apparent (we thought) that Apple was serious about OS X. These were people who were at the time using Unix or Linux for number crunching and (ugh) Windows for desktop apps. This is a group of people who don’t really like the company they pay serious money to for their tools (computers) to go all Big Brother on them and decide what they will be allowed to do with the hardware they buy. A lot of these folks, like me, are watching this latest attempt by Apple to get its act together in the headless desktop market. If Apple fails, yet again, to see this market as one they need to do right by, I think they will see a departure of this group back to Linux. Now, maybe they don’t give a rat’s a55 about this group, but we’ll know one way or another in a year or two.
Wow! This is exactly what pulled me onto the Mac to begin with. Since then I have gone deep into the ecosystem of the appliances: iPhone, AppleTV, HomePod. But you are absolutely right; if Apple doesn't figure out the headless desktop market, and soon, I'm back to building my own and waiving goodbye to OS X. I don't mind paying a premium for Apple's desktop, but I won't deal with Hackintosh and I don't want an unupgradeable laptop on a stick.
Seems like a good time to start wearing tiaras with nice sharp one carat industrial diamonds in on the front, so as to protect from facial injury in a hazardous work environment. The walls will come tumbling down.
It sounds just like Jobs to try to free people to do their work by emplacing invisible painful barriers everywhere.
Any new Mini has to have eGPU capacity and/or a quad core option. If it doesn't have at least one of those features then that will definitely be a deal breaker for me.
Not sure why Apple would go with the Y series CPUs for the Mini though the limit on size is partially down to having to use 2.5" hard drives for the lower end SKUs.
The U series MacBook Air class 15w CPUs would be fine and, yes, people who really want to get serious compute power on the cheap would then connect up a 2018 Mac Mini with Thunderbolt 3 ports up to an eGPU (which combined could double the cost of the Mini).
This is why I would advocate the i5-8250U as the basis of a 2018 Mini. At the moment, bitcoin miners are artificially inflating the price of PCIe GPUs - this year isn't an ideal year to buy.
Sonnet Tech are currently selling eGFX breakaway boxes (Approved by Apple) with (for example) AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 8Gb card for $1299. If one of these boxes could charge an 87w 15" MacBook Pro then it could theoretically power a 15w Mac Mini. Note also that Sonnet sell a base model which can handle a 15w Notebook.
This releases Apple to make another sealed unit Mini with 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports, one for the GPU, one perhaps for a storage array.
If the 2018 Mini uses the same case as the 2014 but has a more sophisticated cooling system we could see the CPU in turbo mode for longer. They probably don't even need to improve the cooling system to be fair as that case is capable of cooling for a 45w TDP.
All of this of course releases the semi-pro user from waiting for a better option. They purchase a 2018 Mini, add external AMD GPU, perhaps external storage as they see fit and get on with their life.
I don't be the bearer of bad news but I think the next mini will have an arm processor.
Mini and 21" iMac : arm
27 &+ : intel i5 & i7
imac pro , mac pro : xeon
I would be shocked if Apple released any desktop or laptop on anything but Intel before 2020.
Then again, I would be shocked if we ever get a new Mac Mini... regardless of the components.
Far more likely it will be the MacBook.
If rumors of their being a 13" MacBook in development to replace the MacBook Air, that model being on Intel would allow Apple to move the current 12" model to an A Series CPU.
There’s always the “let’s pretend an iMac is headless” route that I find interesting...maybe with a matched resolution external monitor to simplify mirroring, and the iMac itself VESA mounted out of the way...I’m imagining it hanging screenface down below an Ikea desk with a hole to push the on/off button...
There would be an “iMac as a Mini” thread with all the little things and possible software/hardware missteps of the procedure.
This is assuming the new MacPro starts at twice the price of a reasonable iMac and is like 5x more power hungry at idle and load, making it a no go for people coming from a (relatively) cheap and power-sipping Mini.
On the other hand, maybe the new Mini is actually a subset of the new modular MacPro and Apple will leave us in awe at the 999$ base modular MacPro. Not completely in the Mini price territory but close enough.
I would like to see Apple use some of its much-vaunted "courage" and ingenuity to build a bottom-end Mini (or modular) that is more that just a token low-priced Mac. Any fool can build a sub-$1000 computer if they put crap components in it and make it a sealed box. Show us some of the old technical design chops, Apple, rather than fashion design.
This I think is the more conservative approach Apple will take - consolidating the desktop offerings and making former Mini users "step up" which is fine by me but for those who desire less the iPad or laptop may be the only solution ... all at higher cost ... of course!