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 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 pros, it may be hamstrung by Intel's integrated graphics processor. We didn't rebenchmark the 2014 Mac Mini for comparison, but Apple would have had to actively try to slow it down in order to deliver worse performance than those four-year-old components. 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 the perks, namely being able to buy less expensive memory elsewhere. Upgradable memory is back, and it takes two industry-standard DDR4 SO-DIMMs.īut like most Apple products, it's not really end-user upgradable, requiring a trip to a service center. 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. But in the 2018 models, Apple's delivered a great upgrade, with only one possible drawback.
Sarah Tew/CNETĪfter several years of silence on the Mac Mini front, fans of Apple's diminutive desktop computing slab had given up hope of ever getting a replacement. In exchange we gain more Thunderbolt capacity and better venting. Gone are the SD card slot, two of the USB-A connections and audio input. The 2014 Mac Mini's connections (bottom) versus the 2018 model's (top).
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