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wood1208 said:

Focus of debate for the new Macbook air should be, what user segments it can or can not serve ? How far the performance of new air can address the daily computing needs of which user segment.

The old MBA dominated personal high school computer choice back in the day. The new model will be great for the classroom. Not sure about after hours though. Should have had the “u” series processor in dual core config to compete with low end XPS and Spectres. But Apple didn’t want to threaten MBP sales, and it would have made the rMB look really bad as an option.

coolfactor said:

albertodlh said:

Now I need a mac-mini-shaped hard drive enclosure to put a 6tb hard drive with my media files in there, and stack it under the actual mac mini. My life will be complete. 

They exist.

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/external-drives/owc-ministack

Yes, just so, but needs to be updated to space grey and have a couple of TB3 ports, not just usb3.1 

you know, all apple had to do was have both the RAM and the SSD in slots, and I think that would be a worthy Mac Mini. RAM only is only half way there.  Apple should be ashamed of what they charge for SSD upgrades. Ashamed.

So, if I was to pick a configuration, I would probably go for an i5, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, then add an extra 8GB RAM myself and have a decent sized thunderbolt 3 external drive to boot off cabled under the desk.

That keynote slide of Cook’s is an absolute classic piece of misdirection.  We need to keep a copy for his retirement speech, you know, for a laugh.

First, a product is turned into a category ‘ipads’*, while a seperate category “notebooks” (which appeared in the slide’s title) is broken into brands to misdirect. Also, I feel like there was a notebook brand missing. I can’t quite put my finger on it.....

*it does show that Apple is selling a lot of iPads, but if all those columns to the right of them were stacked it wouldn’t fit the narrative Cook was attempting to shape. He doesn’t own an RDF.

Pro users don’t buy NUCs like this mini.

I need a new machine real soon now, but will wait to see what the iMac is like, my current iMac is dying from overuse.  
If I had to buy a machine right now, it would be the i7 mini with minimum ram and ssd. I will update the ram myself. I will wait until someone comes up with a matching external TB3 case that stacks with the mini in space grey, and add an external M.2 SSD. I currently boot my old iMac off a TB2 external SSD anyway, but I would like better than SATA.  No way am I paying Apple’s evil prices for ram and ssd. And if I wanted a dedicated GPU, I am sure there will end up a eGPU case that matches too.

Cook is making it real hard not to switch to the dark side. The prices are getting stupidly expensive.