the 2012 versions you can replace the ram with ease
I think I will hold on to my mac mini 2012 and just upgrade the ram.
this is sad when there going back to soddering the ram in place

On 10/22/2014 11:48 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
Hi all,

You may recall that I pointed to the new Mac Mini as the only noteworthy 
announcement from Apple recently.  If you use Mac Minis as servers, I now 
withdraw that recommendation.  See this article:
http://www.primatelabs.com/blog/2014/10/estimating-mac-mini-performance/

The fact is that Apple has chosen, at the cost of reducing the price, to also 
reduce multicore performance of the high-end Mac Mini as part of its design.  
For a server, the newest Mac Mini is slower than the older.  I am therefore 
keeping my older Mac Mini, and leaving behind Thunderbolt 2, 802.11AC and Intel 
Iris graphics, all of which are superior in the newer model, but none of which 
are important to serving, in favour of the processor performance, which is.

If you don't run servers, Mac Mini may yet prove attractive.  But I fear that 
this is yet another sign of Apple's trivialisation of the consumer market; 
after all, they have a Mac Pro to sell you.  It's also worth noting that the 
RAM in the newest Mac Mini is soldered in place, just like the MacBooks, so 
choose your upgrades wisely.  It saddens me to see this development; at least 
when it was just software, you could replace it.

Cheers,
Sabahattin


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