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  • [RUMOR] High-end Mac Mini to be thinner

    From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 08:48:45
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system


    Pointless waste of time making a desktop computer thinner and thinner.
    They should be making it more upgradable!! Apple lost the plot when
    idiot Johnny Ive was put in charge and haven't regained any sense now
    that he's gone. :-(



    From MacRumors.com ...


    High-End Mac Mini Said to Feature Thinner Design
    With 'Plexiglass' Top, Magnetic Power Port
    ------------------------------------------------
    Last week, Bloomberg reported that Apple is working on a
    high-end version of the Mac mini with additional ports
    and featuring the same Apple silicon chip expected to
    debut in the upcoming redesigned MacBook Pro. Now, new
    renders from Apple leaker Jon Prosser have potentially
    given us our first look at this upcoming Mac.

    According to renders made by Ian Zelbo in collaboration
    with Prosser, and shared in a new YouTube video from
    Front Page Tech, the new Mac mini will retain a mostly
    similar design to the existing ‌Mac mini‌ but be smaller
    in overall size.

    Render image 1:

    <https://images.macrumors.com/t/DQyM4X9b9PdNPb0vEfUWBIp2vZo=/1600x0/filters:quality(90)/article-new/2021/05/mac-mini-ports.jpg>


    Render Image 2:

    <https://images.macrumors.com/t/LVxbKD-dYyWYSiJvid3QQy2WTrQ=/1600x0/filters:quality(90)/article-new/2021/05/mac-mini-back2.jpg>


    Render Image 3:

    <https://images.macrumors.com/t/DQyM4X9b9PdNPb0vEfUWBIp2vZo=/1600x0/filters:quality(90)/article-new/2021/05/mac-mini-ports.jpg>


    YouTube Video: (8mins 30secs)
    <https://youtu.be/BhgtBxzroLI>

    According to Prosser, the new high-end ‌Mac mini‌ will
    feature the same ports currently available on the
    Intel-based ‌Mac mini‌, which includes four Thunderbolt,
    two USB-A, Ethernet, and HDMI. Another change reportedly
    coming to the new ‌Mac mini‌ is a "plexiglass-like" top,
    which will sit above the aluminum enclosure.

    Proser says he has "heard" that Apple is testing
    two-tone color options for the ‌Mac mini‌, similar to the
    newly released 24-inch iMac. Finally, Prosser says that
    the new ‌Mac mini‌ will feature the same magnetic power
    port that debuted in the 24-inch ‌iMac‌.

    Apple updated the ‌Mac mini‌ with the M1 Apple silicon
    chip in November, keeping in its lineup Mac minis
    equipped with Intel processors. Bloomberg has indicated
    Apple could scrap its plans to release this new high-end
    ‌Mac mini‌ but notes that regardless, it will eventually
    replace the current Intel models with ones featuring
    Apple silicon chips.


    <https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/25/high-end-mac-mini-renders/>



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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, May 25, 2021 16:59:10
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <s8jnra$786$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Your Name
    <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

    Pointless waste of time making a desktop computer thinner and thinner.

    nope. it's what sells, and for the mac mini, thinner means of them can
    be stacked in the same amount of space.

    They should be making it more upgradable!!

    most people never upgrade.
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  • From JF Mezei@jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, May 27, 2021 15:58:59
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2021-05-25 16:48, Your Name wrote:

    Pointless waste of time making a desktop computer thinner and thinner.
    They should be making it more upgradable!! Apple lost the plot when
    idiot Johnny Ive was put in charge and haven't regained any sense now
    that he's gone. :-(

    Ive has been gone for a while. So the "Thinner" religion comes from
    other people, it wasn't just him.

    As the Mac Mini is Apple's de-facto server, I would rather that they
    have a thicker one with better ventilation to ensure long duration in
    7/24 operation. And hot air exhaust in one direction so that if you
    stack themn on a rack, you can direct the exhault to the back of rack
    and have the mkinis breathin in cool air from the front.
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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, May 27, 2021 16:10:36
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <8SSrI.109355$iT.67349@fx19.iad>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:



    As the Mac Mini is Apple's de-facto server, I would rather that they
    have a thicker one with better ventilation to ensure long duration in
    7/24 operation. And hot air exhaust in one direction so that if you
    stack themn on a rack, you can direct the exhault to the back of rack
    and have the mkinis breathin in cool air from the front.

    apple silicon doesn't generate as much heat as similar intel chips.
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  • From Dr Eberhard Lisse@nospam@lisse.NA to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, May 28, 2021 10:33:09
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    Depending on what you want to "serve", Raspberry PIs with USB Sticks for
    hard disk space are very cheap.

    I am using one (nice heat sink and ventilator) for an Atlas Probe,
    Galmon Probe and internal Mail Relay and another one (ready made) for
    HOOBS.

    el

    On 27/05/2021 21:58, JF Mezei wrote:
    On 2021-05-25 16:48, Your Name wrote:

    Pointless waste of time making a desktop computer thinner and
    thinner. They should be making it more upgradable!! Apple lost the
    plot when idiot Johnny Ive was put in charge and haven't regained any
    sense now that he's gone. :-(

    Ive has been gone for a while. So the "Thinner" religion comes from
    other people, it wasn't just him.

    As the Mac Mini is Apple's de-facto server, I would rather that they
    have a thicker one with better ventilation to ensure long duration in
    7/24 operation. And hot air exhaust in one direction so that if you
    stack themn on a rack, you can direct the exhault to the back of rack
    and have the mkinis breathin in cool air from the front.


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