I’d much rather have upgradeable RAM and SSD thanks.
Never gonna be a thing with the way Apple Silicon Macs are built.
I was hoping when the Mac Pro came out they’d do some sort of 2 tier memory solution where you have 32 gigs of very fast ram, and 1TB of slow RAM. But instead they just put glued two M2s together and called it a day.
This is the only thing that would justify a Mac Pro imo. I guess that and third party GPU support. The current one is silly with the studio existing.
It’s not ever going to happen.
I know :-(. Let the enshittification proceed.
Awww. Aren’t you just precious.
I just hope a well specced Mini doesn’t sell for more than the base model Studio, and still have worse specs.
Just give me 32 gigs of ram, 4 thunderbolt ports, and 10 gig ethernet so my poor i5 Mac Mini can retire. He’s been screaming in pain.
If it’s smaller than the current mini, it’ll likely have a lot less ports. They’ll probably do this to push people to the Studio.
The article said smaller but taller, so I’m thinking Airport-shaped with still plenty of room for ports.
Article said one HDMI, at least 3 USB-C + power. Doesn’t mention Ethernet at all. Does the Apple TV have Ethernet? That looks like the form factor they’re starting from.
So the ports you’d get in a MBP
The Apple TV has Ethernet if you pay $20 more
I hope they don’t get stingy on the ports.
I know some people will “everything is usb-c now!” except everything isn’t, so stop.
I have a ten year old Mac Mini on my desk that has two FireWire, four usb, an sd card reader, and Ethernet. I still want most of these things (though, of course swap FireWire for some number of usb-c). I don’t want to HAVE to buy a dock for this machine.
In hearing that it’ll be smaller, my initial assumption is Apple will do the Apple thing and arbitrarily reduce the number of ports while saying “if you want more here’s the Mac Studio that’s way more expensive!”
Power, ethernet, hdmi, 3 usb C. That’ll do. Anything else get a splitter or a dongle.
Realistically they could just make this a hybrid model that can be either an entry level Mac or an Apple TV all in one device.
The “Apple Hub”, use it as an Apple TV or use as a lightweight family computer on your existing display. Perfect!
Then sell for $225 with 1TB nvme and 16GB RAM but no display or camera.
That sounds amazing; I would buy immediately.
Likewise. The price point might be a bit higher but for a dual purpose device I’d probably go up to $349
Fuck it, if we aren’t getting an Apple TV update then this might have to do!
At one point the Apple TV was bigger than the current Mini IIRC.
I had the original AppleTV back when it really was a “hobby”. It ran a lightly modified OS X (Tiger if I remember right). It was basically the same size as the current Mac Mini and a thinner version and design of the contemporaneous polycarbonate Mac Mini.
Indeed, and I liked it better because of all the connectivity options.
What kind of update does the Apple TV need?
Av1 support ideally!
