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If you adjust for inflation, is it a big change from the super cheap Mac Minis of the past? Probably still somewhat more expensive, but not as much as the nomin

by glimshe 2mo ago

If you adjust for inflation, is it a big change from the super cheap Mac Minis of the past? Probably still somewhat more expensive, but not as much as the nominal difference would imply.

petu 2mo ago
Mac Mini M4 launched less than 2 years ago at $600 (US, $500 with edu discount; as low as $400 on general discounts). Now same config with M6 is $900.
- ex1fm3ta 2mo ago
  same spec, same chip. I tought Apple would at least bump the RAM
  - simonh 2mo ago
    You thought they'd bump the base RAM in the middle of the biggest RAM crisis in history?
    - drob518 2mo ago
      Yea, that wasn’t going to happen.
    - ex1fm3ta 2mo ago
      yep why not ? "Unified Memory" was always their favourite selling argument
      - airstrike 2mo ago
        Because they would be throwing away margin for no real reason
- leoc 2mo ago
  And except at the beginning, the Mac Minis of the past weren’t famous for being cheap, but rather for being disappointingly, unattractively expensive and, over time, apparently increasingly forgotten by Apple.
  - markdown 2mo ago
    Actually they were famous for being tiny.
  - musicale 2mo ago
    Mac minis from 2005-2024 launched with entry-level models priced from $499-$699, with the outliers being the 2018 model at $799: https://everymac.com/global-mac-prices/all-msrp-mac-mini-prices-in-united-states.html https://everymac.com/global-mac-prices/all-msrp-mac-mini-pri... Though $599 for the M4 in 2024 seems like a local optimum.
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