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by apricot 2931 days ago
I genuinely had no idea Apple was still selling the Mac Mini.
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the last update to it (3 years ago) was borderline insulting, the model before had a removable base where you could upgrade the ram yourself. The last update they did placed a metal sheet in this area. https://i.imgur.com/TXocZ4d.jpg
Unfortunately it was nerfed in late 2014 by going to 15W CPU's. No more real quad-core i7's...
> Unfortunately it was nerfed in late 2014 by going to 15W CPU's. No more real quad-core i7's...

Hilarious since it is a giant chunk of aluminium, more than eight times the size of a typical 35W NUC-type machine, and has a fan.

While I agree with you, it would probably be good enough for light IOS work.