Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Apple@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 months agoApple says all Mac minis with Intel are now ‘vintage’ or ‘obsolete’9to5mac.comexternal-linkmessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months ago Vintage: “Apple stopped distributing them for sale more than 5 Feels like just yesterday I bought this thing. That said I’m tired of this POS being so slow, I just can’t justify buying a Mac Studio Yet.
minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWhy? Nothing else comes close in terms of overall experience. It’s efficient, quiet, fast, and I prefer Mac OS over Windows and Linux for my use case.
minus-squaremuusemuuse@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoHonestly the new base mini is a good buy. Until fairly recently in the Mac timeline, the minis had slow hard drives holding them back.
minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago Until fairly recently in the Mac timeline, the minis had slow hard drives holding them back. I hate to break it to you, but that was 7 years ago. Unless like 2.8gbps read and 1.6 write is considered slow by 2018 standards.
Feels like just yesterday I bought this thing. That said I’m tired of this POS being so slow, I just can’t justify buying a Mac Studio Yet.
Why? Nothing else comes close in terms of overall experience.
It’s efficient, quiet, fast, and I prefer Mac OS over Windows and Linux for my use case.
Honestly the new base mini is a good buy. Until fairly recently in the Mac timeline, the minis had slow hard drives holding them back.
I hate to break it to you, but that was 7 years ago. Unless like 2.8gbps read and 1.6 write is considered slow by 2018 standards.