And with that in mind, a couple of ports on the front would be nice.*By default, 1 GB of RAM was installed as two 512 MB modules, no slots free.
Having to make space for a big eGPU just for better-than-basic graphics acceleration kind of defeats the purpose of a tiny system, especially when you're likely going to be hanging a multitude of external drives and other accessories off it as well. But one of the benefits of the Mini is that it's mini. (I've included benchmark results for a couple of Kaby Lake G laptops to give you a sense of performance and speed.) But that also would require some internal redesign and - gasp! - maybe a few millimeters' embiggening.Īpple seems to be betting on external GPUs as a solution for much of its graphics woes. Not all software supports the latter, but some notable digital audio editing software, such as Avid Pro Tools, at least take advantage to accelerate plug-ins. (With only four cores, that CPU may not match the performance of the i5 and i7 eighth-gen hexacore processors.) Some games won't even run if they don't detect a discrete GPU, no matter how lame it might be.
A Kaby Lake G CPU, for example, would be a nice alternative to the i3 simply to make the system low-end VR ready, to take some of the video decoding or image-processing burden or to help reduce overhead in audio production. I'm not saying it needs a powerful gaming or rendering GPU. So what's the drawback? For many, it may be hamstrung by Intel's integrated graphics processor.
The speakers are still kind of tinny, but the system still has the quaint 3.5mm headphone jack that Apple's dropped from its other products. It drove a Dell Ultrathin 27 S2719DC display via Thunderbolt without any unexpected issues (and at the monitor's maximum 75Hz refresh rate). There isn't much to say about how it feels to use. We tested the "cheap" entry-level model, equipped with an Intel Core i3-8100B, 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. But if it's going to be another four years until Apple updates the Mini again, then every little bit of upgradability helps. This undercuts one of upgradeable memory's perks: The option to buy less expensive memory elsewhere. Instead you'll have to take a trip to a service center. Upgradable memory is back, and it takes two industry-standard DDR4 SO-DIMMs.īut like most Apple products, you can't upgrade it at home. In addition to modernizing the connection options with USB-C/Thunderbolt ports, updating to HDMI 2.0 and offering a 10-gigabit Ethernet option, Apple fixed one of the big complaints about the 2014 model: soldered memory.
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