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> Apple's attitude to the Mac mini truly confuses me. I'm probably speaking for thousands of people. It's been complete frustration to see what Apple hasn't be
by newscracker 10y ago
> Apple's attitude to the Mac mini truly confuses me.
I'm probably speaking for thousands of people. It's been complete frustration to see what Apple hasn't been up to on the Mac front. Apart from not updating a few ranges for years (and introducing updates that reduce or remove the kind of expandability the core Apple customer base wants), not reducing the price of old systems is highly insensitive on the part of the company. It looks like in another one or two years macOS won't support some of the aged hardware that Apple sells. That may be the time it'd completely junk those ranges. It's sad to see this.
Though lacking in certain ways, the HP Z2 Mini seems like a decent alternative for people who can move out of macOS.
- ianai 10y agoThey definitely have unmet demand. They also just cut their CEOs pay for under performance. They could upgrade the whole line in one go and be right back to relevance.
- kogepathic 10y ago> Though lacking in certain ways, the HP Z2 Mini seems like a decent alternative for people who can move out of macOS. The Z2 Mini is a completely different class of hardware. People who are looking for an alternative to the Mac Mini would be well served by an Intel NUC, Zotac ZBOX [0], or Gigabyte BRIX [1]. [0] https://www.zotac.com/product/mini_pcs/all https://www.zotac.com/product/mini_pcs/all [1] http://www.gigabyte.us/products/list.aspx?s=47&ck=104 http://www.gigabyte.us/products/list.aspx?s=47&ck=104
- protomyth 10y agoand yet, the HP Z2 Mini is the same price as the middle Mac Mini packing quite a bit more power and expandability.