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There's also, finally, a new Mac Mini! "The most specced-out Mac mini can feature 64 GB RAM, 4.6GHz 6-core Core i7 CPUs, a 2 TB SDD and 10 Gigabit ethernet."
by erikstarck 8y ago
There's also, finally, a new Mac Mini!
"The most specced-out Mac mini can feature 64 GB RAM, 4.6GHz 6-core Core i7 CPUs, a 2 TB SDD and 10 Gigabit ethernet."
- TazeTSchnitzel 8y agoWhoa, the internals aren't just a MacBook Air now?
- masklinn 8y agoThe price has skyrocketed though, entry model is $800 (used to be $500), the top end with all options is $4200.
- gehsty 8y agoThats probably just inflation since the last update :)
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoIt would be interesting to compare that to an equivalent Intel NUC, my guess is you are paying a lot for the ability to run macOS.
- vesrah 8y agoThere aren't NUCs that compare. You can't buy a NUC with an i7 6 core, one with 64GB of memory, or one with 10GBit.
- detaro 8y agoThere aren't NUCs that compare for all variants.
- maxsilver 8y agoThe Mac Mini (standard configs) are pretty comparable to the latest Intel NUC, compared to something like this https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits/nuc/kits/nuc8i7hvk.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits... (and folks can debate whether the Mini's 6-cores and no dGPU is better/worse than the NUC's 4-cores with a Radeon GPU). What's neat is that the Mini now runs a full desktop CPU (60W TDP?). So while the default configs of the Mac Mini are roughly equivalent to a NUC , the Mini has higher max upgrade headroom and a fully-tricked-out Mini will significantly surpass a NUC in speed/memory/networking.
- Zarel 8y agoAccording to Reddit, NUCs mostly have mobile processors. NUCs with desktop processors like the latest Mac Mini tend to be more expensive than the Mac Mini.
- kentosi 8y agoIt's the addition of RAM that kills the price though. A jump from 32GB to 64GB is $800USD!
- duskwuff 8y agoUnless there's another pair of SODIMM slots hidden somewhere out of view, that'd be because the 64GB configuration requires a pair of 32GB DDR4 SODIMMs. These were only announced by manufacturers earlier this year, and aren't even available at most retailers yet.