Apple Highlights Mac Mini Use in Live Concerts, Theater, and Data Centers

I use Mac Stadium to build mac apps at work and I imagine they're going to make a very large order with Apple now that the new models are out. There's a growing need for Macs in the "cloud" since so many people run their entire build pipeline in AWS or GCE or Azure, but need to build a macOS or iOS app.

“Never had a problem” ? Sounds like an Apple setup from 2010 not any recent Apple experience

The new Mac Mini really is quite expensive, as is the new MBA. I appreciate the specs are better but it seems odd not to have a low cost option.

I’m a little confused about Apple’s product line. The Mac Mini was always touted as a low priced desktop for people’s first experience into the Apple ecosystem. The MacBook was always the cheapest consumer laptop, the MBA prioritised portability over all other factors, and the MacBook Pro was the machine with the best hardware.

I just think if Apple made a really low cost Mac Mini, or even kept the previous iteration at a cheaper price with a 32GB SSD/500GB HDD fusion drive, it would be a really popular low-cost machine that would seemingly run very fast for most consumers due to the Flash storage.

Same with the MBA. They could have introduced the new one but kept the old one at a lower price. Sure it’s hugely outdated but it’s still a great machine for what it does, and at an even more competitive price I really think it would be popular.

In the keynote, Apple briefly touched on daisy-chaining several mini's together, but didn't explain how they can operate as a single system. We used to have Xgrid built into OS X (pre-macOS), but Apple sadly dropped that technology. They are suggesting it's possible to leverage several mini's as one computer, but how??? Anybody got any info? This truly is the ultimate Mac... upgrade by adding another mini to your setup, not replacing your existing system. And truly environmentally-friendly. It's where Apple needs to get to. Modular.

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https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/30/apple-mac-mini-secret-world/

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