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Re:My Next Mac Mini by CydeWeys on Saturday January 28, 2017 @09:34AM (#13506443)
Unfortunately, your two desires are at cross purposes to each other. An external power brick helps keep a lot of heat out of the system, which allows you to run less cooling in the box, and thus be quieter.
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Re:My Next Mac Mini by nottorp on Saturday January 28, 2017 @09:56AM (#13506540)
Yeah, except Apple manages to come close so it's possible :)

Give credit where credit is due.

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Re:My Next Mac Mini by jmanderley on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:15AM (#13507046)
The mac mini is much larger than an Intel NUC.
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Re:My Next Mac Mini by CydeWeys on Saturday January 28, 2017 @01:00PM (#13507729)
There's two other factors that the Mac Mini doesn't do well on though: Performance (both per dollar and absolute), and size. Not having an external PSU is less important to me than both of those factors, and I'm sort of struggling to see how it could be considered more important.
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