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  • [RUMOR] High-end Mac Mini to be thinner

    From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 26 08:48:47 2021
    Pointless waste of time making a desktop computer thinner and thinner.
    They should be making it more upgradable!! Apple lost the plot when
    idiot Johnny Ive was put in charge and haven't regained any sense now
    that he's gone. :-(



    From MacRumors.com ...


    High-End Mac Mini Said to Feature Thinner Design
    With 'Plexiglass' Top, Magnetic Power Port
    ------------------------------------------------
    Last week, Bloomberg reported that Apple is working on a
    high-end version of the Mac mini with additional ports
    and featuring the same Apple silicon chip expected to
    debut in the upcoming redesigned MacBook Pro. Now, new
    renders from Apple leaker Jon Prosser have potentially
    given us our first look at this upcoming Mac.

    According to renders made by Ian Zelbo in collaboration
    with Prosser, and shared in a new YouTube video from
    Front Page Tech, the new Mac mini will retain a mostly
    similar design to the existing ‌Mac mini‌ but be smaller
    in overall size.

    Render image 1:

    <https://images.macrumors.com/t/DQyM4X9b9PdNPb0vEfUWBIp2vZo=/1600x0/filters:quality(90)/article-new/2021/05/mac-mini-ports.jpg>


    Render Image 2:

    <https://images.macrumors.com/t/LVxbKD-dYyWYSiJvid3QQy2WTrQ=/1600x0/filters:quality(90)/article-new/2021/05/mac-mini-back2.jpg>


    Render Image 3:

    <https://images.macrumors.com/t/DQyM4X9b9PdNPb0vEfUWBIp2vZo=/1600x0/filters:quality(90)/article-new/2021/05/mac-mini-ports.jpg>


    YouTube Video: (8mins 30secs)
    <https://youtu.be/BhgtBxzroLI>

    According to Prosser, the new high-end ‌Mac mini‌ will
    feature the same ports currently available on the
    Intel-based ‌Mac mini‌, which includes four Thunderbolt,
    two USB-A, Ethernet, and HDMI. Another change reportedly
    coming to the new ‌Mac mini‌ is a "plexiglass-like" top,
    which will sit above the aluminum enclosure.

    Proser says he has "heard" that Apple is testing
    two-tone color options for the ‌Mac mini‌, similar to the
    newly released 24-inch iMac. Finally, Prosser says that
    the new ‌Mac mini‌ will feature the same magnetic power
    port that debuted in the 24-inch ‌iMac‌.

    Apple updated the ‌Mac mini‌ with the M1 Apple silicon
    chip in November, keeping in its lineup Mac minis
    equipped with Intel processors. Bloomberg has indicated
    Apple could scrap its plans to release this new high-end
    ‌Mac mini‌ but notes that regardless, it will eventually
    replace the current Intel models with ones featuring
    Apple silicon chips.


    <https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/25/high-end-mac-mini-renders/>

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  • From alien@21:1/5 to Your Name on Wed May 26 04:35:49 2021
    On 25/05/21 22.48, Your Name wrote:

    Pointless waste of time making a desktop computer thinner and thinner.
    They should be making it more upgradable!! Apple lost the plot when
    idiot Johnny Ive was put in charge and haven't regained any sense now
    that he's gone.  :-(

    <snip>

    That is true, even it become the opposite with their goal as carbon
    neutral company, since if it broke or become too old and cannot be
    upgrade, in the end it will end up in landfill.
    --
    -alien-
    ~ Work like you don't need the money. ~
    ~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
    ~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~

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