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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by ghaff on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @10:43AM (#25125036)
I'm definitely part of the target market (well, depending upon my mood) for a <13" laptop for travel. I've never been able to make an iPad-based workflow work for me. If nothing else I spend too much time with my laptop on my, well, lap and nothing with a removable keyboard works for me.

Based on the data I've seen so far, I'm not sure why they even did a with fan Pro variant. Even if the market for an 11-12" model is smaller I'm not sure why they didn't do that instead. I was sure that was going to be the reason they didn't refresh their 12" Intel system.

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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by djrogers on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @10:56AM (#25125223)
> Based on the data I've seen so far, I'm not sure why they even did a with fan Pro variant.

The ‘pro’ variant released was the low-end 13, aka the 2 port, formerly the ‘macbook escape’. The 13” line has been bifurcated since 2016, with this one firmly lower-spec’d and powered.

It’s very likely that the ‘4 port’, or high-end 13” pro will make more use of the active cooling, so it was likely worth it to develop the new laptop with it.

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