Mac Mini is meant to be sort of the starter desktop. For higher end uses, they want you on the Mac Studio, an iMac, or a Mac Pro.
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KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
They moved to on-die RAM for a reason: To nickel and dime yo ass.
I needed to expense a Mac Mini for iOS development, and everyone (Me, the company, our purchasing department) was baffled at how much it cost to get 16 GB. And they only go up to 24GB. Imagine how much they’ll charge for 32 in a year!
stoly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I assumed that the Mini was the effectively a Mac without a monitor. Is it relatively underpowered too?
PrettyLights@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Its not underpowered for average users, but it’s not meant for professional uses beyond basic office work.
Similar to the mini they offer the Studio which doesn’t have a monitor built in www.apple.com/mac-mini/compare/?modelList=Mac-stu…
Then for the higher end uses they offer a more typical tower format www.apple.com/mac-pro/
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But would an M1 Mini be similar to an M1 iMac?
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As far as I understand, the Mac lineup don’t have screens, the IMacs are stationary and do have a screen, the MacBooks are the laptops.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It’s technically a bit faster, but yeah, I think charging more is the bigger motivation.
dojan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Companies primarily make decisions to maximise the profitability of someone and it’s never the consumer.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
It’s a bit first but if their primary motivation was performance improvements they wouldn’t be soldering 16 GB.
If you’re going to weld shoes to your feet, you better at keast make sure that they’re good shoes.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Why not? There is a performance benefit to being closer to the CPU, and soldering gets you a lot closer to the CPU. That’s a fact.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Yeah but if you’re only putting 6 GB of RAM on then you’re also going to be constantly querying the hard drive. So any performance game you get from soldering is lost by going all the way to the hard drive every 3 microseconds.
It’s only better performance on paper in reality there’s no real benefit. If you can run an application entirely entirely within the 6 GB of RAM, and assuming you’re not running anything else, then maybe you get better performance.
Zink@programming.dev 3 months ago
Sounds like one of those rare cases where engineering and marketing might agree on something.