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Not a flying unicorn, but still a winged equine: the Mac Nano. A tiny white puck with a single usb-c plug for power and data. Inside, an A12 running OS X. Edu
by tambourine_man 8y ago
Not a flying unicorn, but still a winged equine: the Mac Nano.
A tiny white puck with a single usb-c plug for power and data. Inside, an A12 running OS X.
Education and “enthusiast” market. GPIO as a dongle, of course.
They can release the A13 version in colors the next year :)
- oliv__ 8y agoTake my money
- fastball 8y agoI'm confused as to how you have a computer with only a single port... what do you imagine plugging the one port into?
- beokop 8y agoPrevious MacBook 12” user here. Either power, or peripherals. Just not at the same time.
- fastball 8y agoMacbooks have large batteries. Wouldn't make sense to have one in this if you're going for as small as possible form factor.
- jandrese 8y agoPower I'd guess, since he didn't specify a battery. The display would be wirelessly beamed directly into your brain.
- derefr 8y agoA USB-C Thunderbolt Display that delivers power over the cable and has a USB hub built into it. These exist, though they're expensive. Or, an eGPU enclosure, which also delivers power over the cable and has a USB hub built into it. (You just need to plug a monitor into it.) These exist, and are surprisingly cheap if you buy them bundled with a graphics card.
- Bud 8y agoNot all Mac USB-C ports are Thunderbolt, though...for instance, in the MacBooks.
- protomyth 8y agoFor most of the day my Macbook Pro is basically a computer with one port plugged into a dock with its case shut since I like using my LG 21x9 screen more than the built in screen.
- fastball 8y agoRight but your Macbook has a large battery. Something it wouldn't really make sense to have if you were going for a very small form factor.
- protomyth 8y agoRemove the battery and screen, you get the Mac equivalent of the Intel Stick. Depending on price, I could very much see buying a lot of them for the students (with a USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter or equivalent for their home use). [Edit]I would then stock the labs with docking ports like something from CalDigit and LG displays.
- pdimitar 8y agoDo you have a link to a good guide on how you can use a MacBook Pro with the lid closed all the time? (Obviously with external display[s].) I tried 2 times -- granted they weren't very honest attempts, I hoped to have it done in 5 minutes, but failed. I am looking for a no-BS quick guide if you have one lying around.
- rangibaby 8y ago1. Make sure an external keyboard and mouse are available, wired or wireless is fine 2. Make sure your MacBook is plugged into power and an external display 3. Close lid 4. Your main desktop should show up on the external display. If your computer goes to sleep you can wake it up by clicking the mouse or typing on the keyboard.
- pdimitar 8y agoThanks. Will that wake the internal display though? That would warm it up and that can be pretty bad when the lid is closed.
- derefr 8y agoHave you tried developing apps for the Apple TV? It's basically like that; just too low-powered to actually run macOS.
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- Bud 8y agoIt most definitely is not. Not anymore. It's just as capable as recent Mac minis. A10X Fusion is a very decent chip.
- h1d 8y agoApple has been targeting the general public filling their needs with easy to use device/software stack and while part of it is starting to fail (dropping AirMac series), I would consider them losing focus if they start to build tiny machines only targeted at geeks. But I do feel that without extending their business what they're going to do with their massive cash just sitting around doing nothing.
- tambourine_man 8y agoI think you mean Airport
- rangibaby 8y agoIt’s called AirMac in Japan
- valuearb 8y agoDoing nothing is far better than making a dumb acquisition, and most acquisitions are dumb. Just buy back stock, they have plenitude of cash flow to fund reasonable R&D.