Select Costco Wholesale Stores (
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store locator] offer Costco Members:
Apple Mac Mini Compact Computer w/ Apple M1 Chip (Late 2020 Model, MGNR3LL/A) on closeout for
$399.97 valid for In-Store Purchase Only where stock permits (request item # 1486314).
Thanks to community member
Laotzu3 for finding this deal.
- Note: Inventory availability nay vary by location.
Specs:- Apple M1 Octa-Core Processor (4x high-performance + 4x high-efficiency)
- 8-Core Integrated GPU
- 8GB RAM (onboard)
- 256GB Integrated NVMe PCIe Solid State Drive
- 802.11ax WiFi 6 / Bluetooth 5.0
- Ports:
- 2x USB Type-A (USB 3.1 / USB 3.2 Gen 1)
- 2x Thunderbolt 3 USB Type C (supports DisplayPort / HDMI / VGA & Power Delivery)
- 1x HDMI 2.0 (output)
- 1x 3.5 mm Headphone
- 1x Ethernet
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To get disk access on par with M1 you need to pay $200 to upgrade to 512gb ($799 or $699)
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I echo many others sentiments. Apple silicon is objectively the best way to experience OSX these days. It's one of the few situations where the vertical integration benefitted the user... Apple forced ARM support by changing their whole hardware portfolio wholesale. It doesn't hurt that their translator for x86 apps is quite quick.
I still have a hackintosh haswell rig running High Sierra. It has no issues, but I expect updates to eventually break the setup...and when it breaks... Its near impossible to fix without spending hours on tonymacx86 forums to find Hopefully one other person who fixed your exact problem. All the rig does now is serve as an Imessage and torrent server.
I used to prefer OSX for mundane work tasks where stability was more important than speed. The UI had never turned me on. But I've not had a crash in well over two years in my thinkpad running windows 10 workstation,within any app or the os itself. I installed some cheap ECC memory from ebay recently so I expect even more stability on my xeon (for that one time a year where you get a bit-flip error).
That said, this is a really good deal and will only suck down a fraction of the wattage of your Mac Pro. So if you're willing to spend $400 this is the best bang for your buck. But if you don't want to spend anything you don't have to keep using Mojave on your Mac Pro (in fact you really should not be using that OS anymore since it is no longer being patched).
That said, this is a really good deal and will only suck down a fraction of the wattage of your Mac Pro. So if you're willing to spend $400 this is the best bang for your buck. But if you don't want to spend anything you don't have to keep using Mojave on your Mac Pro (in fact you really should not be using that OS anymore since it is no longer being patched).
Apple sometimes deprecate multiple generations of hardware together. Apple doesn't publish its software support policy. So we don't know what will happen exactly. (My point is you can't make a statement that sounds 100% certain)
If I could guess it would be 0 or 1 (M2 is a very minor upgrade to M1).
*if you already have an external display, keyboard, and mouse.
We don't know that exactly. It is possible it gets 2 more years of MacOS, or it could be 1, or could be 0. (Could even be 3)
Apple sometimes deprecate multiple generations of hardware together. Apple doesn't publish its software support policy. So we don't know what will happen exactly. (My point is you can't make a statement that sounds 100% certain)
If I could guess it would be 0 or 1 (M2 is a very minor upgrade to M1).
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Once they retire the last two intel models, it'll basically be impossible.
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