expiredDC52NV posted Feb 25, 2023 07:48 AM
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expiredDC52NV posted Feb 25, 2023 07:48 AM
Active Military/Vets: Apple Mac Mini w/ M2 Chip, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD
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Did you see the videos on real world usage? 99% of the people can barely tell the m2 256 has a slower drive. It only shows up if you regularly move 50gb files daily. This guy shows it from a graphics design or photography perspective.
If you do regular dev builds as a programmer then you aren't using macOS, Linux instead and a have a different setup so you don't have macOS overhead. Alex zeskind.
https://youtu.be/_rgeCXm5uwY
Of course there are many other YT influencers showing artificial benchmarks. But very few day in the life of videos which show the real difference.
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A RAID is defined as a Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks. It was developed as a quick fix around the stagnant cost of memory at the time. Mind you SSDs and magnetically manipulated stacked vertically polar platter tech most likely was a not a theory during the RAID concept onset. It's advantage was also that it maintained it's directories as the OS recognized it as a single disk (at least in their config). In today's world, the development of things like RAID-5 (my fav) has continued and now tends to focus on data integrity and speed, rather than memory cost.
It's central to their product strategy to have a "cheap" model that brings eyeballs and customers and a "mid" priced model (that nobody buys) to drive "best" (largest margin) sales.
People see the lowest priced model (this Mini) and say "hey that's a good deal!" and start researching. They learn that 256GB is weak sauce but are now attached to the product because of the excellent value. They look to the 512GB version and say "$200 for 256gb??" and then check out the highest spec model (that costs $700 more than the base model) and decide it's better to invest in the higher spec model.
And Apple just convinced them to buy a SFF PC with 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD for $1300.
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Picked up a M1 mac mini last year for this price and have no real reason to upgrade.
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