Buy Apple Mac mini M1 Chip (Late 2020) featuring Apple M1 8-Core CPU, 8GB Unified RAM 256GB SSD, 8-Core GPU 16-Core Neural Engine, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Bluetooth 5.0, 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A HDMI 2.0, 2 x Thunderbolt 3 / USB4 Ports, 1 x Gigabit Ethernet Port, macOS. Mac minis are sufficient for office work. Invest in a backup solution, or at least a cloud sync solution as time machine is pretty bare bones. View entire discussion (17 comments) More posts from the LawFirm community.
- The M1 Mac mini weighs 1.2kg while the Intel model weighs 1.3kg, but the dimensions are exactly the sam at 19.7cm by 19.7cm and just 3.6cm tall, so it really is mini as the name suggests.
- The Mac Mini starts at $800, but if you buy every single upgrade option available, it can cost you as much as $4,200. I bought my Mac Mini with a core i5 processor, 32 GB of RAM, and 256 GB of.
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The 2018 Mac mini just launched as the most powerful Mac (for the price), and it got a massive upgrade after four years of neglect. This is prompting a lot of folks to wonder if it's time to upgrade the Mac minis in their life. iOS and Mac app development teams are interested in upgrading their continuous integration (CI) infrastructure. Mac minis behind TVs, under desks, and in closets could also be good candidates for a refresh.
We've definitely seen a wave of customers making the upgrade here at MacStadium. If you're not familiar, we host over 8,000 Mac minis, Mac Pros, and iMac Pros in data centers around the world for huge businesses, small startups, and individuals that need a Mac 'in the cloud.'
So, what happens when the world starts upgrading Mac minis? It's slightly different from other technology refresh cycles for two main reasons: 1) The Mac minis from 2014 or even 2012 still run great! 2) The four-year gap since the last refresh means the new minis are way faster. This leaves us in a position where lots of people are upgrading minis, but the old minis still have a lot of life in them.. so what to do?
We've put together a short list of ideas but would love to hear others. Have a good use for an old mini? Let us know! (#newlife4oldmini)
Swap or recycle minis as part of the Apple Giveback program. You can trade-in your mini with Apple in exchange for a store gift card or a refund on a new purchase. If your mini is in bad shape or isn’t eligible for credit, Apple will recycle it for free. Turn that old mini into something good for you, good for the planet, or both!
Give them away to kids, friends, or your local church or charity. Pay it forward – give new life to your old mini by passing it along to someone who can put it to good use.
Set them up behind a TV to run a dashboard or play movies. Here at MacStadium, we’ve been known to setup an old mini behind a TV or two. They are great for running sales dashboards, looping videos or slide shows, or streaming Apple keynotes on a big screen.
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Setup your old mini as a media server. Use Plex to store and organize all your video, music, and photo libraries and stream them to your other devices.
Create a home automation node.Homebridge is a lightweight Node.js server you can run on your home network that emulates the iOS HomeKit API. It supports plugins that can bridge HomeKit to various 'smart home' devices, allowing you to ask Siri to control devices that don't have any support for HomeKit at all.
Use a mini as a controller for an art project or robot. Make your own Mobile Mac mini bot!
Setup a remote macOS desktop for when you're on the go (you can remote-in from an iOS device in your pocket). Check out “iPad Diaries” from MacStories. Sounds sets for outlook mac 2016. Federico shares great tips and tricks for accessing and controlling a Mac mini from an iPad.
Set a mini up as a backup server with a big USB hard drive. Mac mini, the perfect Time Machine backup destination.
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Set your mini up as a web/file server. Brian Stucki published a great list of ways to use your Mac server… the possibilities are endless!
Mac os x 10.2 jaguar iso. Of course, you could send in your old Mac mini for colocation at MacStadium so all of these powerful things can be done from the cloud. Or ditch the old Mac mini and sign up for a brand new, shiny, space gray version at MacStadium.
If you plan to use one of Amazon Web Services’ new bare-metal Mac instances in its cloud for more than 77 days a year, you may be better off just buying the Mac Mini instead.
The Register makes that suggestion after AWS revealed the price for its Mac instances: $1.083 an hour, $25.99 a day, or about $9,490 a year. You’ll also pay for AWS storage.
Next, we visited apple.com, and priced the same Mac Mini that AWS has pressed into service: the Intel Core i7 model with 32GB of RAM, 10G Ethernet, and a 512GB disk. It costs $1,999.00. Do the math: $1999/$25.99 = 76.91 – so you’ll be better off buying that Mac Mini if you need one more than 77 days a year.
Dividing $9,490 by $1,999 gives us a result of 4.74 – the number of your very own Mac minis you could buy rather than running one in AWS for a year.
AWS will sell the Mac instances for less on its EC2 Savings Plans, and when The Register fiddled with that facility, it seemed to suggest we could pay vastly less than the per-hour plan though didn’t offer a firm price.
Meanwhile, Mac-hosting outfit MacStadium offers what looks to be the same Mac Mini as a bare-metal system for $139 a month. AWS’s pricing chews through that sum in about five days. Cheaper, and more expensive, options are available from MacStadium, and there are other businesses out there offering remote-hosting or co-locating Macs.
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READ MOREIf you think that Apple's new M1 silicon can handle your workloads, an M1-powered Mac Mini with close-enough specs – 16GB rather than 32GB of RAM, notably – costs $1,099.
AWS is of course picking up the cost of housing and feeding the Macs it rents, and ensuring they are resilient. But is that really a massive value-add for computers that are supposedly known for their reliability?
Yes, and no.
AWS has aimed its Macs at developers who want to test and sign apps developed for Apple devices. There’s no indication that task will go faster in the AWS cloud. But having access to cloudy Macs to do the job will mean developers don't need Macs dedicated to this occasional task. Even at $25.99 a day, that could work out financially, compared to buying the Minis outright and keeping them on a shelf.
The cloud giant thinks its bare-metal Macs systems could be used to power build farms or render farms. That sort of rig doesn't have to be used every day – yeah, a lot of software engineers need something like that all the time, but not everyone – and it requires scale that needs plenty of capital. Thus, folks may lean toward temporarily renting the gear.
And Amazon is banking on people wanting the convenience of managing their Macs-in-the-cloud alongside all their other rented services and storage, all from their AWS dashboard.
One more thing: AWS is a little late to the party, as Microsoft’s Azure Pipelines build and test tool has offered macOS running on Mac Pros since March 2020. And GitHub Actions provides macOS runners. And so on. ®
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