Schiller's response ( via Daring Fireball): 'On that I’ll say the Mac Mini is an important product in our lineup and we weren’t bringing it up because it’s more of a mix of consumer with some pro use.

So in April, Apple made an unusual move by inviting journalists to its campus to tell them about new iMac and Mac Pro computers coming later in the year, as a away to assuage anyone considering jumping ship from Mac to Windows.Īt that April meeting with journalists, Buzzfeed's John Paczkowski asked Apple's marketing VP Phil Schiller about the Mac Mini. Keep in mind: Apple spent much of this year apologizing to pro users after neglecting the iMac and Mac Pro lines last year, choosing its October event to focus solely on the new MacBook Pros (which were initially slammed by critics for various reasons - the battery life, the new Touch Bar, limited RAM, the comparatively high price, you name it).

We're coming up on the three-year anniversary of the last Mac Mini update. Apple last updated the Mac Mini in October 2014. Starting at $500, the Mac Mini is a great option for people who don't want to spend $1,000+ on a MacBook or iMac, or people who want to simply run MacOS on a monitor they already own. You just plug it into any computer monitor you have lying around the house, plug it into power, add a keyboard and mouse, and boom, you've just built yourself an affordable Mac computer. If Adobe optimizes their AS versions to scale as well as Cinebench ( 50% Perfomance increase), it would easily beat the older Mac and even catch up to AMDs mid-tier 3600X.Unlike most Apple computers, the Mac Mini lacks a screen. Very, very slightly worse than the Intel Mac Mini in Photoshop. LTT has a more 'Apples to Apples' (Pun intended) comparison in their video: M1 Mac Mini vs. The actual user experience in day to day tasks is harder to benchmark, so hearing about that may be more insightful to the typical Apple user. Pudget System did a nice benchmark on these and found the M1 Macbook Air and Pro to perform comparably to a Desktop with an i5 8600 and GTX 1060. Nothing to sneeze at.Īnd with how thermally constraint Intel chips have been in most modern Apple devices, you may still see a nice improvement. Click to expand.Emulation with support in hardware though.

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