The current lineup just widens the gulf between the mini and the pro.
You either get a very low-end box or you have to jump to the rocketship,
nothing inbetween. That chasm is readily apparent when the minimum
config on the MacPro is $3000 while the max CPU config on the mini is
$1200 (3GHz dua
It's ironic because I very nearly sold mine to a relative for a low price,
which would have meant I couldn't afford an external storage enclosure I've
been saving for. Now it's worth its weight in gold! Guess we should be
careful what we wish for. It keeps the money in my pocket, anyway, and
the 2012 versions you can replace the ram with ease
I think I will hold on to my mac mini 2012 and just upgrade the ram.
this is sad when there going back to soddering the ram in place
On 10/22/2014 11:48 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
Hi all,
You may recall that I pointed to the new Mac Mini
That's rather disappointing. So the basic issue is that Apple no longer
ships a mini with quad-core, only dual core. If you want quad for, say,
running vmware you'll have to find something used. According to the
article the new Intel Haswell processors require two sockets for a quad
while the p
Hi all,
You may recall that I pointed to the new Mac Mini as the only noteworthy
announcement from Apple recently. If you use Mac Minis as servers, I now
withdraw that recommendation. See this article:
http://www.primatelabs.com/blog/2014/10/estimating-mac-mini-performance/
The fact is that A
