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How the new Mac Studio fills a crucial gap in Apple's desktop lineup
williamlondon said:Perfect for you, perhaps, maybe even 10s more, but this has been the trend for a LONG time, nothing about it requires you to throw the "apologist" label around just because Apple doesn't agree with you and most others don't either, having already voted with their pocketbooks for quite a long time here.
Intel Mac minis / desktops allowed the user to swap hard drives. It is not unrealistic to accept RAM integration (at this level) but not praise Apple for removing storage upgrade / expansion in a purely desktop machine. Claiming that removing that option is anything other than progress is an apologist response. It's not a feature, it's forced obsolescence. -
How the new Mac Studio fills a crucial gap in Apple's desktop lineup
I'm sorry to see all internal expandability be eliminated by Apple (and apologists spin it as to be expected or a good thing). My much smaller mac mini server can house two 2.5" drives (also two ram slots). This chunker is much bigger than a mac mini and has no spinning drives in it. This machine would have been perfect if it also had two m.2 slots. A $500 playstation 5 has an m.2 slot.It's sad to see Apple crippling expansion in every Apple silicon machine that currently exists (also no eGPU anymore) and - maybe - only reserving it for a single machine sometime in the future that will start at $6k+. Apple users accepted the end of expansion in laptops and later all-in-ones but killing it off in desktops is not something to be celebrated. -
New Mac mini with M2 & M2 Pro - all the rumors so far
OutdoorAppDeveloper said:Painfully obvious: It needs a SSD slot. Not a removal of the underside and difficult installation but an actual slot into which you insert a SSD stick complete with heat sink. This would greatly extend the useful life of the Mac Mini and would be trivial for Apple to add as the SSD's only connector is on its end. Five years from now a M1 Pro or Max will still be a decent processor but the SSD will seem very slow and cramped. -
New Mac mini with M2 & M2 Pro - all the rumors so far
So Apple is eliminating expandability, sealing up the mac completely AND requiring an external power brick - for no benefits. This design is a huge step backwards versus the intel Mac minis. It's essentially a headless laptop. I won't bother with this model. It would be compelling if Apple made the bottom or top easily flip up (that bottom round cut out for a square machine was truly absurd) AND they added a pair of m.2 storage slots - now that would be a tangible benefit of moving to an external power supply (and an actual upgrader over dual SSD mac mini server configs). I know it won't happen - Apple and their f*ckin' walled garden of no upgrades & no repairs from a pretend green company.