In it's stead there should be a 4 or 5k CinemaDisplay with a docking mount into which a new, flatter MacMini snaps.
Ooh. OOH. Huh. Okay, uh… I actually kind of love this idea, but it’s not idiot-friendly. First of all, there’s no real reason for the snapping; just design the Mac mini to fit perfectly onto the footprint of the display. See that huge area that makes up the iMac/Thunderbolt Display’s foot/tongue thing? That’s big enough. You could make it taller to compensate for the smaller base area. Make a tiny lip around the perimeter of the foot into which the computer can sit snugly so that cable movements, et. al. don’t jostle it.
But since Apple has even discontinued their standalone displays, I don’t see it happening. That was an idiotic move–Thunderbolt 3 could easily handle a standalone display of the 27” iMac variety–but whatever. I’ve never really been happy with my Cinema Display’s panel, but I probably just got a lemon. There’s no way a display that expensive and of that high quality would do this sort of thing regularly.
Also, Sierra is awesome and they’re complete idiots for officially denying me it on my Mac Pro, where it not only works perfectly, it works perfectly even with my PC, unflashed, GTX 980.
EDIT: Well, this is odd. After a reboot, Safari won’t render anything correctly and none of the other applications except iTunes will even open.
EDIT: And now I'm in a kernel panic loop. Guess I'll try a clean install of Sierra instead of an upgrade.
I'm thought for a few months now that Apple was going to largely skip Skylake in favor of Kaby Lake to get TB3 built in with 3.1. ...
Guess We'll see.
I'm really hoping that this is the case. You would think that Apple should have enough influence nowadays with Intel that they could get the Kaby Lake processors "early" and then have, "the fastest laptops on the market."
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Ooh. OOH. Huh. Okay, uh… I actually kind of love this idea, but it’s not idiot-friendly. First of all, there’s no real reason for the snapping; just design the Mac mini to fit perfectly onto the footprint of the display. See that huge area that makes up the iMac/Thunderbolt Display’s foot/tongue thing? That’s big enough. You could make it taller to compensate for the smaller base area. Make a tiny lip around the perimeter of the foot into which the computer can sit snugly so that cable movements, et. al. don’t jostle it.
But since Apple has even discontinued their standalone displays, I don’t see it happening. That was an idiotic move–Thunderbolt 3 could easily handle a standalone display of the 27” iMac variety–but whatever. I’ve never really been happy with my Cinema Display’s panel, but I probably just got a lemon. There’s no way a display that expensive and of that high quality would do this sort of thing regularly.
Also, Sierra is awesome and they’re complete idiots for officially denying me it on my Mac Pro, where it not only works perfectly, it works perfectly even with my PC, unflashed, GTX 980.
EDIT: Well, this is odd. After a reboot, Safari won’t render anything correctly and none of the other applications except iTunes will even open.
EDIT: And now I'm in a kernel panic loop. Guess I'll try a clean install of Sierra instead of an upgrade.
--Lex