News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord. Parent comment

Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by scarface74 on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:04PM (#18365764)
100% agreed. People are complaining online about how the new Mac Mini is priced, but they're not just selling a computer. It's a whole ecosystem of things of mostly reliable stuff that works well with each other.

The old Mac Mini started at $499 with a slow processor even when it was new, a slow hard drive and 4GB of RAM. That was a configuration that no one should have bought. The cheapest previous Mac Mini that anyone should have bought was $699.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by bsder on Friday November 02, 2018 @07:20PM (#18367524)
A lot of people buy the Mac Mini because it is the cheapest way to do iPhone development.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by scarface74 on Friday November 02, 2018 @07:24PM (#18367543)
You really don’t want to run XCode with 4GB of RAM
[ Parent | on HN ]