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• #2018 MAC MINI GRAPHICS CARD UPDATE#

And there’s no way to upgrade the storage.

#2018 MAC MINI GRAPHICS CARD UPDATE#

Sure you can update the RAM, but not without taking it apart. And what’s more, there’s nothing about it that Apple couldn’t have accomplished with regular updates. Apple is calling it “the update of a lifetime,” but really it’s still a middling Mac that’s now a little overpriced to boot. The original point of the Mac mini was to offer people a budget Mac in a small package, but now it’s a more of a “pro” machine with a higher price tag in a small package. Maybe we should call this the Mac mini Max.Īside from that being absurd, it’s also kind of insulting to fans. In fact, if you max out the mini with a 6-core Core i7 CPU, 64GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage, it’ll set you back-wait for it-$4,199. It now starts at $799, $300 more than the previous $499 starting price, and clearly aimed at so-called pro users. The other thing that has changed about the Mac mini is the price, and it’s here where Apple’s new PC really starts to feel like a disappointment.

Go get your new mini while it’s hot but don’t expect this to be a sign that Apple is committed to its smallest Mac. With the exception of the MacBook Pro, Apple tends to upgrade its Macs just enough so it can safely ignore it for a few years. I have little hope that Apple will pay any attention to the Mac mini until sometime in 2022, if it ever does. The case may be darker but it’s pretty much the same Mac mini of old.Īfter four years, Apple basically gave us the barest minimum Mac mini upgrade to get us through the next four years. But in 2018, the new Mac mini feels like more of a concession than an innovation. You can even upgrade the RAM after you buy it, a rarity among Apple products. Compared to the prior generation, the new Mac mini is a veritable powerhouse packed in the same diminutive square. Quad-core Intel Core i3 or 6-core Core i5 or i7 processor The Apple M1 GPU is an integrated graphics card offering 8 cores (1 deactivated core in the entry MacBook Air) designed by Apple and integrated in the Apple M1 SoC.