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Which Mac Mini?

WrightBrain said:
I would move to a PC, but my wife and business partner would kill me. Compatibility issues. Um with the machines – not my marriage

I was looking at an iMac but on the high end with the "K" chips have the same temperature issues. The lower wattage non-K chips seem to run cooler. The iMac 3.5 i5 with Radeon 575, being the best bet. But you miss out on the 8GB 580.

At least the mini has six cores vs the four on the iMac. And you can add the 8GB video card as a eGPU.

I was just trying to see if the i5 ran cooler than the i7 in this model. I can always disable Turbo Boost if it helps.
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I think the i5 would be a good fit for you. The tasks you outlined don't appear to benefit from hyperthreading and the clock differences don't appear to be worthy of consideration. If you're worried about heat it doesn't appear you're losing much by choosing the i5.
 
i think my mini is getting used to Mojave because the spinning ball stopped spinning
and my computing is getting faster by the minute, screw the upgrade!
 
WrightBrain said:
You can look up manufacturer specs and there is software you can use to monitor internal component temperatures. Actually the price of the AppleCare is damning if you ask me. It means everything is overpriced and doesn't cost THEM much to replace. We pay the "Apple Tax".
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Manufacture specs you mean Apple? they do the mainboard...in regards of the ram then you should change the question in the thread in "How hot do the ram runs" and compare that to the manufacture specification.

Are you suggesting that Apple sell a computer that they know it will soon die, and insurances that are known to be fulled easily agree to cover the machine for 99 dollars. Do you really think an i7 cost less than 99 to OEMs? LoooL so how much do dell,hp, and lenovo profit from a normal tower that requires no engineering?
Are you suggesting the Apple runs the ram hotter than specified from their supplier? because this means that the supplier won't actually refund any defective ram coming from Apple, does this make any sense to you? Nvidia has been droppen for not honouring warranty, so I think Apple do care about this stuff, you know, money.

And why I never saw an army of Apple temperature gates since pretty much all the macs runs hot, just like any OEM i7 runs hot? (My old Dell had his i7 running at 98 celsius for maya renders for years).

Aside from conspiracy theories it would be nice to have some proof
 
PJivan said:
Aside from conspiracy theories it would be nice to have some proof
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i think after reading threads like new minis not working (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-mini-crashing-and-shutting-down.2155714/#post-2716051) we are very cautious on buying new apple computers.
we are not being stubborn or ant-apple, we just are not as confidence in buying an apple product that might fail as we did in the past. i know im skeptical i even hesitated to install newer osxs because of problems of newer apple software.
 
Expobill said:
i think after reading threads like new minis not working (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-mini-crashing-and-shutting-down.2155714/#post-2716051) we are very cautious on buying new apple computers.
we are not being stubborn or ant-apple, we just are not as confidence in buying an apple product that might fail as we did in the past. i know im skeptical i even hesitated to install newer osxs because of problems of newer apple software.
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That has nothing to do with temperatures
 
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WrightBrain said:
Um. Yes I DO worry about heat in the above mentioned items. Even AAA says don't warm your car up too long on a winter day or you hurt the engine. And yes if an item is constantly working to the extreme range of heat tolerances without much headroom to allow for a high ambient temperature, that means the engineer did a poor job constructing the machine.

Intel's i7 chips have a threshold of 100° C. They have been reported to be running hot at around 95 to 100°. That is a problem and they have been getting crap for it.

Honestly your responses are not helpful. If you don't know specifics of what the CPU temps of the i5 and i7 are in the Mac Mini, please refrain.
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my 2012 rMBP constantly ran at 100 degrees for almost 7 years - and it still works absolutely fine, and it's way over any apple care or extended warranty..

This is nothing new, these chips have been running hot since forever.

I doubt the CPU will be the component that will fail in that retina mac. I think the biggest concern for these machines is RAM which is soldered, and GPUs, as they have a history of failing when running hot.
For the Mini, that's obviously not an issue since it doesnt have one.
 
Ploki said:
I doubt the CPU will be the component that will fail in that retina mac. I think the biggest concern for these machines is RAM which is soldered, and GPUs, as they have a history of failing when running hot.
For the Mini, that's obviously not an issue since it doesnt have one.
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Sigh... has Apple really been soldering RAM as far back as the 2012 MacBook Pro? I thought this was just a recent practice. Why, Apple... just, why?!?
 
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Loads of 2018 Mac Minis have been popping up on the refurb store lately - worth checking daily.
 
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