With the 10G NIC upgrade, I would see some use in this if it ran Linux
Well, it would be
- more confusing if they shaped it like an iPhone,
- more unstable if they shaped it like the magic mouse with the power port at the bottom,
- super cute if they kept the exact power mac design but super smol.
That cilinder Mac Pro was a fever dream but I still love the design
It’s kinda cute
Mac Mini’s are cool, and I appreciate that Apple has some of the most experienced and talented designers in the world… But they put the power switch on the bottom. You have to lift it up and turn it over to turn it on and off.
But WHY??
In case it wasn’t a joke, I imagine it would be high enough for your finger to just poke under it to push the button, like you would a monitor with buttons on the bottom of the screen.
Doesn’t look like it is.
What.
The fuck.
The next 900$ monitor stand will attach the monitor at the bottom with the screen facing the desk.
You need to buy the ar/vr set to see what the screen is displaying.
At the very least, the keyboard functions for power.
There is plenty of room on the front for a power button. Should have removed the headphone jack.
Lol, lmao.
Why didn’t they put the headphone port on the back…
You’ll be able to fit a finger under it I bet.
Is it meant to stay on forever once you set it up?
The side with the power button is now the top. There is no ports or io on the bottom.
I’d just get two toothpicks and make a seesaw to press it, although I pretty much never turn off my computers so I still wouldn’t mind too much
Don’t worry, there will be suitable USB accessories, for just 99$.
Meanwhile… Apple TV stuck in stone age and still can’t do bitstream.
That doesn’t seem very good for the price.
M4 reportedly outperforms Intel’s Core i9-14900KS by 16%. That CPU alone is over $600.
I don’t think anything with the word “intel” can be taken seriously in value comparisons…
When I got my last laptop I ended up with a MBP because there were no high end options for Linux laptops with AMD. Now the options are better, but back then, the only realistic alternative to a MacBook Pro would have had a third of the real-world battery life if not less, even if I decided to spend £3k. That didn’t seem like an acceptable compromise so there were virtually no laptops in existence that could compete with an M2 MBP.
True. It was just the first comparison I saw when I searched for M4 benchmarks.
Really, AMD isn’t even a fair comparison because we’re talking about an ARM SoC here. So maybe the Snapdragon dev kit that ultimately got cancelled?
It was supposed to be $900, for a special Snapdragon X Elite, 32GB RAM, and 512GB SSD.
cpubenchmark.net has comparisons to other X Elite chips, putting them pretty much on-par with the M4 or maybe just below it.
With the same amount of RAM and storage in a Mac Mini, you’re talkin $1200. So, $300 premium for a device that’s maybe 2-8% better, has retail support instead of being a dev kit, and… well, actually exists. It’s not a slam dunk for the Mini, but it’s clearly not a rip-off either.
There‘s nothing comparable on the market at this size and price when it comes to sheer power and energy efficiency.
When… have their products ever been competitive on price? Not even shitting on them, but there’s always been an Apple tax.
Back in 2009-2010 I bought an entry level 13" MacBook Pro because it was fairly competitively priced compared to other options with similar specs, but the MBP had by far the better battery life, display quality, touchpad, and probably keyboard. It was easily worth the upcharge for those factors, so no real Apple Tax.
Mac Mini M1 when it was released was a good deal compared to same form factor machines at similar prices. Same for the M1 MacBook Air, despite the base RAM.
That advantage lasted a while, too, considering battery life and build quality.
Aside from the pitiful SSD it seems good.
Its not, you can build your own mini pc with a ryzen 9700X, more ram, more storage, and it would probrally cost less. In addition you wouldn’t be locked into the Apple ecosystem and you would be able to upgrade it.
The price of the storage upgrades. Jesus.
Why care when we talk about desktops? Take the 512 GB model and attach a super fast and big external TB SSD.
I think you’re confusing desktops with laptops.
Because we shouldn’t have to pay such prices to upgrade to a normal storage amount without dongles and external storage.
I mean… It looks like the other Mac minis so… Okay.
