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on Monday October 20 2014, @07:30AM
from the ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody dept.
from the ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody dept.
In a recent engadget article, Jon Fingas points out the following:
If you're planning to snag the new Mac mini and load it up with aftermarket memory, you may want to reconsider your strategy. Macminicolo owner Brian Stucki (among others) has discovered that the RAM in Apple's latest tiny desktop isn't upgradable, much as you'd expect with the company's laptops and the 21-inch iMac.
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innovate, v.:
To annoy people.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 20 2014, @11:44AM
The article doesn't mention if the new Mac mini is smaller than the old one
I've read some discussion on that topic that the fetishization of thinness seems to be spreading from phones, where it doesn't matter other than making it a little awkward to hold and a technical PITA, to desktop computers where its just irrelevant. Like the fad some years back of cutting windows in gaming PCs "for the cooling" and then sticking a plastic window and blue LEDs in there "to make it cool".
(Score: 0) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday October 20 2014, @01:25PM
Macs have been by homosexuals, for homosexuals, ever since the PPC days.
Nothing advertises the want of a large Black dick in the ass more than using a Mac in public.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 20 2014, @02:07PM
Classy comment
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 20 2014, @02:43PM
Well, if my wife is secretly bi I'm OK as long as I get to watch, and its her hot friends not her ... not so hot friends. Aside from that, my point was you could build the next mac mini into a giant plastic dog turd and no one will realistically notice or care, seeing as my wife's mac mini is buried on her desk behind the monitor or something where no one sees it. I think her old one looked like a single slice silver toaster or a really small waffle maker, and her new one looks like a piece of wonderbread with the crusts cut off and an oreo on top.
I have a good analogy, lets make SSDs that are so stylish and hot and sexy and super thin but it doesn't matter because almost nobody gazes longingly at SSDs all day long anyway.
Its like trying to turn a toothbrush into a conspicuous consumption item, its just dumb.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday October 20 2014, @02:57PM
Not to mention if you give folks the choice between "more power at a better price" and "looks pretty but weak and expensive"? Well with the notable exception of the hardcore Appleites the average person will ALWAYS pick the former. And why wouldn't they? as you note its not like they are gonna spend their days gazing lovingly at this teeny tiny box, they are gonna be too busy actually USING the thing to care about how "purty" you can make the thing. I found this out when I first started building HTPCs, folks would rather have a larger case with better hardware than pay a premium for having an itty bitty NUC style thing with severe hardware limitations.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 20 2014, @03:15PM
You are on the right track but appliances like a mythtv frontend have more a carnival ride "you must be this tall ->" sign and once you're there all good. I remember the crap I went thru more than a decade ago to get a mythtv FE up and running, and then there was an era I could use a castoff desktop (still have one in the basement lab/workshop, the thing just won't die) and my living room has one of those zotac boxes thats smaller than a cablemodem and it just works.
Once you can display live TV, later live HDTV, there's no point in making it any faster. I'm doing vdpau acceleration in the video card and it works at like 20% CPU and I'm sure a new box could pull that down to 5% but I just don't care until the hardware breaks.
On the other hand an appliance like an apple desktop can never encode video "too fast" so I don't think a "you must be this tall ->" sign threshold exists. At least not yet. Someday we'll be able to encode video faster than we can burn DVDs or upload to youtube and then there will be no point at all in further increases for the average buyer. That'll be interesting. Its coming soon, the end of progress in end user raw computer power.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday October 20 2014, @03:44PM
I would argue that for the most part we are already there as very few users are doing any kind of realtime encoding and for everything else even a 5 year old CPU is overkill. I know I used to be the guy that HAD to replace his system every other year (with a hardware upgrade on the off year) because the systems just couldn't keep up, but now? The Phenom II X6 I have at home can transcode video AND burn a DVD as well as play a game or watch a movie and all at the same time.
when you look at what a user actually DOES with their PC, even their HTPC? Most aren't doing anything that can't be done on a 5 year old system. like I said realtime encoding is rare, thanks to the mess that is cablecards and all the other DRM crap and with sites like Hulu and Netflix having actual copies is becoming less and less of a concern. instead what I'm seeing is users ripping their DVD and CD collections and using their HTPCs as a combination mediatank/netbox/game console and for those uses? Slap mediaportal on any $300 Athlon quad system and its all gravy.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.