Husband, father, coder, photographer, traveler.
My Core i7 Mac mini arrived yesterday. First impressions…
It gets hot. I’ve started calling it the hotplate.
The fan moves a lot of air. The airflow is louder than a Mac Pro.
The GPU is keeping up with dual 4K displays, so far.
It’s quick, really quick.
We got our first decent snowfall for the season. Here’s the view out my office window this morning.
After using the Magic Trackpad with haptic feedback, switching back to the original with mechanical buttons feels barbaric.
This video is coming about a week later than I intended, but check out my mini-review of the Canon 85mm f1.8.
FWIW, our polling location here in central Michigan has been packed all day. I can’t remember having to wait that long in line for any previous election.
This is how you go from an average Monday evening to a complete disaster in less than two seconds. Took an hour and a half to clean up the shards of glass that flew up to 15′ away when the lid I was holding burst.
Why in 2018 is the default value for translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints still set to true…?
Seems like many are looking forward to having A-series CPUs in Macs. The speed and power consumption benefits would be significant. However, it comes at the expense of compatibility with other x86 OSes and virtualization. For many, that’s a real inconvenience. #NeverForgetSoftPC
Kept laughing to myself during Apple’s talk today every time they described how much faster these Macs are compared to the last revisions. They _should_ be that much faster when you compare them to 4 year old computers…
Looks like the low-end 6 core CPU might not have Hyper-Threading. That extra $200 is well worth it if this is the case.
Looks like the high end Mac Mini CPU is the Core i7-8700. It scores 5304 on single core and 23010 on multi-core, which is 46% faster on single core and 31% faster on multi-core than my 2013 6 core Mac Pro.
I was planning to replace a 2012 Mac Mini server, but it’s tempting to use it as my desktop until the new Mac Pros are finally ready.
Any idea of what the Geekbench scores are for the 6 core CPUs in the new Mac Minis?
Really nice to see 10Gbe at just a $100 option though.
Apple Store is back up. $1400 for the 64GB RAM option on the Mac Mini. Another $1400 for the 2TB SSD option.
This is the final image in my series of photos taken at the Traverse City State Hospital. Many thanks again go to Christian VanAntwerpen for an excellent tour. ?
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This shot shows some of the tunnels were more functional than others. I liked seeing the infrastructure to be honest…it gave the tunnel a modern purpose.
Here’s a rundown of my new 4TB SSD setup using OWC’s Mercury Elite Pro Dual mini:
This misty tunnel was awesome. There were tunnels between several of the buildings, but this one was particularly photogenic. The underground area was much cooler than it was outside on the hot and humid day. The humidity caused some misty fog to form, which was really cool.
If Apple releases the rumored “Pro Mac Mini” on October 30th, then we’ll have a Pro iMac, a Pro Mac Mini, and a Pro MacBook Pro, yet still no Pro Mac Pro.
More power! I didn’t spend too long in this old power plant because there was airborne asbestos on site, but I did grab a couple of shots inside and this was my favorite.
The symbolism…Sometimes even democracy needs to be renovated with some TLC.?