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  • Apple's Mac mini has outlasted Intel's NUC

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    Xed said:
    bsd228 said:
    The Intel NUC hasn't died.   Like the IBM PC, it has been coopted by legions of OEMs offering original NUC sized compute units for $200-500.   
    $270 got me a hex core AMD with 2.5gb ethernet, 16gbs, and a win 11 license to toss as I please.  Smaller than the Mac Mini of today, and in the same ballpark on power.  Takes an M2 and a 2.5" drive.  

    They won't have the GPU, but that's not what they're used for.   
    If they are in the ballpark on power usage of the Mac mini then their performance has to be awful in comparison if they are x86.
    Well, it's not. The Intel vPro ones handily beat out the M1 for example, and the new ones are about the same as the M2, except hey use more power on max perf. These NUC's are great for installations, video displays, home control systems, etc. They run a ton of apps that have no equivalent on MacOSX, so depending on use-case these are still very good computers.
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  • Apple's Windows Game Porting Toolkit gets faster with new update

    michelb76michelb76
    The only way this will ever work is if the majority of mac users will buy the ports that are coming out now. So go buy Resident Evil and Death Stranding, whether you like them or not. It's a chicken and egg situation. We soon may have a great toolkit for developers, but it's worthless without a market. It's either that, or keep using Crossover and hope for the best.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple wants to make an Apple Watch screen that wraps all the way around the wrist

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    williamlondon said:
    HirsuteJim said:
    SoundJudgment said:
    This is one of those "Gee.... it would be nice if we could do this...." moments, but reality has a way of scrapping such plans.
    Unless you are Elon Musk. Until the very moment it happened, most said that landing and reusing a rocket booster was simply not possible. SpaceX has now done it over 200 consecutive times. 
    Elon Musk did nothing but throw money around and bully the people who actually figured this shit out.
    How is that different from Steve Jobs?
    williamlondon

  • Apple wants to make an Apple Watch screen that wraps all the way around the wrist

    michelb76michelb76
    They don't "want" this, they just filed a patent, that's all.
    williamlondon

  • Apple Silicon Mac Pro debut finally ends transition away from Intel processors

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    9secondkox2 said:
    Freaking letdown. Wow. Total disrespect to the Mac Pro. There’s no reason to buy one over a Mac Studio unless you need specialized I/O. With the starting price, looks like Apple really doesn’t want to deal with the Mac Pro anymore. 

    It’s obvious they just want to get macs out of the way to get to what they really want to get to - a headset with a cable dangling down to a power pack your waist that doesn’t even look like an apple product. The 1980s Nintendo power glove was more integrated. Sheesh. And it wastes power with the outside screen. Get rid of that and you might not need to wear it all over your body. Looks like it was meant to be glasses, but apple wanted to rush. 
    You'd thought Apple would reinvent physics and come out with a monster machine that would beat what's on the PC market? There's a tiny set of people for this mac model, and even they are switching a lot of their workloads to the cloud. We used to be a mac pro shop,  but we're all on beefy Studio's now. Works just fine.
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