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Re:Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac... by mikestew on Monday August 20, 2018 @03:37PM (#17803162)
I'm kind of intrigued by what a pro-focused Mac Mini could be.

Couple of disks in a RAID, lots of RAM, bring back the quad core. Like the Mac Mini Server of old. They've already built it before, they just need to bring it back in modern form.

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Re:Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac... by wlesieutre on Monday August 20, 2018 @03:47PM (#17803264)
Quad core is believable, probably the same Coffee Lake parts that just got them to quad core on the 13" Macbook Pro.

I could see a RAID of SSDs like the iMac Pro has. Not in a base model certainly, but that's what I'd put in a pro-focused mini.

Thunderbolt 3 for expansion for sure. Which will be hilarious because the Mac Mini Pro will be a more up-to-date Pro machine than the Mac Pro is. They still have Thunderbolt 2 ports (with the mini DisplayPort connector) on Mac Pro, Macbook Air, and Mac Mini. The latter two are said to be updated soon, the Mac Pro who knows when.

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