I love my 2012 i7 Mac Mini. Bought it a year ago for dual purpose music production and home theater PC service and it's great. Dead quiet and powerful. I got the Ivy Bridge i7 quad core with Hyper Threading with it's 8 logical cores which makes quick work of converting music files. I noticed that the new MM is only offered in dual core. Apple why?
It's pretty obvious why. They neutered the high end MMs so they won't compete with more expensive computers like the Mac Book Pro, the iMac and the new Mac Pro. And more disappointment, they made the ram non user upgradable. It is so easy to upgrade the ram in the 2012 MM. Pop off the bottom and stick it in. Now you have to buy the factory Apple ram. Taking the i7 model from 8 to 16 gigs costs $200 more than double the cost of an upgrade from Crucial.
If you're in the market for a MM and you do something like music or video content creation and need all the cores you can get, you should buy the 2012 model, not the 2014. Being a consumer of Apple products is like being in love with a beautiful woman you sometimes cannot stand
It's pretty obvious why. They neutered the high end MMs so they won't compete with more expensive computers like the Mac Book Pro, the iMac and the new Mac Pro. And more disappointment, they made the ram non user upgradable. It is so easy to upgrade the ram in the 2012 MM. Pop off the bottom and stick it in. Now you have to buy the factory Apple ram. Taking the i7 model from 8 to 16 gigs costs $200 more than double the cost of an upgrade from Crucial.
If you're in the market for a MM and you do something like music or video content creation and need all the cores you can get, you should buy the 2012 model, not the 2014. Being a consumer of Apple products is like being in love with a beautiful woman you sometimes cannot stand
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