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> It is probably difficult to recover the engineering, qc, and manufacturing costs to change a model. How much R&D can there be for Mac Minis when almost every
by ChrisLTD 9y ago
> It is probably difficult to recover the engineering, qc, and manufacturing costs to change a model.
How much R&D can there be for Mac Minis when almost everything but the case is a commodity part?
Aside from considerations of cost, it should be embarrassing to Apple to sell such outdated tech at these high prices.
- jws 9y agoSure, they are outdated. But if you sat a user down in front of a current Mac Mini and one using one of Intel's equivalent wattage and price point parts which shipped in volume in the past six months, would a user notice the difference? Short of benchmarking I doubt they would. The new parts just aren't compelling.
- extra88 9y agoIf they wanted to use the Mac mini for a "home theater" they might notice that the mini can't handle 4K/UHD resolutions above 30Hz. Even outside home theater use, they may notice watching H.265 videos on a computer without hardware decoding (not really a problem now, very much will be a problem within the lifespan of a mini purchased today). They'll notice if they have another, actually new Mac in their lives and find the mini has no USB-C ports, either for Thunderbolt 3 or even USB 3.1 (of course this is also true of the Mac Pro but at least they've 'fessed up about that).