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Re:2018 Mac Mini Review by stephenr on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:14AM (#18392259)
How much graphics processing power does your text editor demand? How about your build server?

Apple made it pretty clear in their keynote they're focussing this product to be attractive to the 'pro' market that gives zero fucks about a whiz-bang graphics card.

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Re:2018 Mac Mini Review by teolandon on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:35AM (#18392495)
My text editor needs the processing power of my $100 ThinkPad, and that's where I'll be using my text editor.

What is it that justifies the $2500 price?

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Re:2018 Mac Mini Review by ricardobeat on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:44AM (#18392592)
6-core latest CPU, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, plus “apple tax” (design, thermals, build/hw quality, OS, support).

You can build a similarly spec’d PC for maybe $1500, with a better GPU, but 20x as large, not silent, higher power consumption, etc. Many trade-offs, not for everyone.

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Re:2018 Mac Mini Review by FireBeyond on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:58AM (#18392716)
Or it'll be right around $1250, the same size or smaller, and still silent:

https://www.amazon.com/NUC7i7BNH-Dual-Core-i7-7567U-Bluetoot...

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Re:2018 Mac Mini Review by joshchaney on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:29PM (#18393027)
That's a laptop CPU. The top-end Mac Mini he's using is a 65W TDP i7-8700. Pretty large difference in performance.
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Re:2018 Mac Mini Review by stephenr on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:24PM (#18392972)
With 1/2 the max RAM, 1/3 the CPU cores and from a previous generation, 1/4 the TB3 ports, no NVME, No 10GbE option. But sure. "The same".
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