#2018 mac mini review pro#

The i7 Mac Mini scored better on single-core performance than every other Mac today (!) at 5912, and its multi-core score of nearly 24,740 beats every Mac to date except the iMac Pro and the old 12-core 2013 Mac Pro.

Granted, IвЂ™m testing the fastest CPU offered, but damn. The big story to me is how incredibly fast this thing is. Compared to similarly specced iMacs and MacBook Pros, the pricing is generally reasonable.ДЄnd this can truly be a pro desktop, with just one exception. This wouldвЂ™ve sounded crazy to spend on a Mac Mini a few years ago, but when itвЂ™s specced up like this, itвЂ™s targeting a much higher-end market than the previous model could. ItвЂ™s partly justifiable because itвЂ™s much higher-end than before - the processors are much better, the architecture is higher-end and includes big advances like the T2, and all-SSD is standard - but itвЂ™s still an expensive product in absolute terms.ДЄpple lent me a high-end configuration for review - 6-core i7, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD - which would cost $2499 (much of which is the SSD). The base price has increased to $800, and thatвЂ™s not great. (Although, even as someone tired of space-gray everything, I have to admit that the Mini looks fantastic in its new color.) The Mac Mini needs to be a utility product, not a design statement. The point of the Mac Mini is to be as versatile as possible, addressing lots of diverse and edge-case needs that the other Macs canвЂ™t with their vastly different form factors and more opinionated designs. I know zero Mac Mini owners who really need it to get smaller, and many who donвЂ™t want it to get fewer ports or worse performance. ItвЂ™s the same size as the old one, which is the right tradeoff. If the previous one served a role for you, the new one can probably do it just as well, and probably better and faster, with minimal donglage. Number one - and this is a big one these days, especially for this product - is that itвЂ™s not any less useful or versatile than the outgoing Mac Mini, including the generous assortment of ports. It makes almost nothing worse and almost everything better, finally bringing the Mac Mini into the modern age. The 2018 Mac Mini is real, and itвЂ™s spectacular. It seemed clear then, and for the following four years that it went without an update, that Apple held the Mac Mini and its customers in very low regard. I donвЂ™t think this was an unreasonable fear after the 2014 Mac Mini update, which made many key aspects much worse without making anything much better. Until last week, I thought it would be the last Mac Mini that Apple ever made.ДЄnd when rumors started swirling about an imminent Mac Mini update, I assumed the worst: if it came at all, it would be a tiny box with a slow, ultra-low-power processor and almost zero ports, optimizing for small size instead of versatility. 1 Almost every port on the back is in use, and it runs 24/7, reliably, in total silence. I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer, Plex server, ScanSnap server, Apple Photos backup, and Backblaze host for our NAS.

2018 mac mini review