What to Expect From the Next Mac Mini

[Yvan256]

Apple definitely wont just plonk a new chip in there and call it good.

I'm going for complete redesign making the machine the size of a postage stamp, 24gb RAM on the base model, $100 price drop and it will shoot lasers out of the front ports.

Those lasers better not be blue or I won't be able to sleep properly.

 

[dmi]

I'm hoping for a 256GB RAM option.

 

[topocalypse]

1. i'm hoping there's a 4TB option on the standard M5 that is after-market upgradable like the current M4. would be nice.

2. i hope this mac mini and the new budget macbook come out at the exact same time, so i can decide which one to get. my m7 macbook (2016) is on its last leg.

 

[SpanishAppleNerd]

1. i'm hoping there's a 4TB option on the standard M5 that is after-market upgradable like the current M4. would be nice.

2. i hope this mac mini and the new budget macbook come out at the exact same time, so i can decide which one to get. my m7 macbook (2016) is on its last leg.

you meant i7, right?

 

[topocalypse]

you meant i7, right?

no, it's m7 actually.
the 2016 model has intel branded m7,
the 2017 model has the intel branded i7 (which is actually just purely a marketing thing
because it had the two cores and ran low clock speed slightly higher than the m5 of the same generation)

sorry for my nerdiness,
the m5 itself thermal throttles within seconds and was too 'powerful' for the cooling design.
m7 is even worse.
so literally any chips intel made at the time would underperform their low performance on the 12-inch macbook
LOL!!!

p.s. see the forum for the thermal pad mod (which helped meaningfully but still it does throttle even after that)
LOL

 

[SpanishAppleNerd]

no, it's m7 actually.
the 2016 model has intel branded m7,
the 2017 model has the intel branded i7 (which is actually just purely a marketing thing
because it had the two cores and ran low clock speed slightly higher than the m5 of the same generation)

sorry for my nerdiness,
the m5 itself thermal throttles within seconds and was too 'powerful' for the cooling design.
m7 is even worse.
so literally any chips intel made at the time would underperform their low performance on the 12-inch macbook
LOL!!!

p.s. see the forum for the thermal pad mod (which helped meaningfully but still it does throttle even after that)
LOL

Lol indeed