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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by colinjoy on Friday November 02, 2018 @05:35PM (#18366963)
Bought a couple of the old base level minis for a DTP shop back then (more RAM / IO bound than CPU). They allowed for installing 16GB of cheap commodity RAM and 2x 2.5” drives which netted you a decent 1.5 TB Fusion Drive. Good days. Today, with improved vendor lock-in for essential components, you’re looking at 2k+ for an equivalent spec. No thanks :)
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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by scarface74 on Friday November 02, 2018 @06:15PM (#18367183)
The RAM is user upgradeable, and an external SSD drive connected to TB3 is not going to exactly be slow.

If you are so inclined you can use an eGPU something you couldn’t do on any previous Mac Mini.

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