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Apple Mac Mini Compact Computer w/ Apple M1 Chip (Late 2020 Model, MGNR3LL/A) on sale for
$399.
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- Note: Temporarily Out-of-Stock but available to order.
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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Serious question - I haven't used a Mac in about 25 years and those were mostly what I used them for back in the day.
Edit: not anymore
10GBe is best for high speed inside-your-network traffic. In order to take advantage of it, you'll need a 10GBe switch (which the questions above imply they don't have), which is still, in 2023, expensive, even for a basic 8 port 10GBe switch. A GigE unmanaged 8 port switch might be $20 at the low end (and up from there); a similar 10GBe 8 port switch typically starts at $500 to $700.
Web traffic? No.
This is for hyper converged infrastructure - picture running a single PC (server) and then on that, loading it up with RAM and CPU and a fast (10GBe) NIC or two or three or four. Then imagine running 20 or 40 busy virtual machines - all working and doing things on them - with lots of network traffic on each one. (Granted, in this example network communication is internal, but I digress...imaging they talk on that NIC, or there are multiple servers...)
Or, it might be for faster access to a Synology 10GBe NAS. Even if all your clients are stuck at 1GBe, each would be able to build a 1GBe connection to the Synology NAS, and if you have 7 clients hitting it, you could potentially get around 700-800MB/s out of it from 10GBe, obviously about 10x what GigE can offer.
Or (pick your use case here) ...
That's a joke. I don't care how amazingly well macs are at using it -- it's still 8gb. They just released two machines today that can be upgraded to 192gb. So if "8gb is more than enough", why'd they go do that?
There's a time and place to cut corners, and then there's ewaste.
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10GBe is best for high speed inside-your-network traffic. In order to take advantage of it, you'll need a 10GBe switch (which the questions above imply they don't have), which is still, in 2023, expensive, even for a basic 8 port 10GBe switch. A GigE unmanaged 8 port switch might be $20 at the low end (and up from there); a similar 10GBe 8 port switch typically starts at $500 to $700.
Web traffic? No.
This is for hyper converged infrastructure - picture running a single PC (server) and then on that, loading it up with RAM and CPU and a fast (10GBe) NIC or two or three or four. Then imagine running 20 or 40 busy virtual machines - all working and doing things on them - with lots of network traffic on each one. (Granted, in this example network communication is internal, but I digress...imaging they talk on that NIC, or there are multiple servers...)
Or, it might be for faster access to a Synology 10GBe NAS. Even if all your clients are stuck at 1GBe, each would be able to build a 1GBe connection to the Synology NAS, and if you have 7 clients hitting it, you could potentially get around 700-800MB/s out of it from 10GBe, obviously about 10x what GigE can offer.
Or (pick your use case here) ...
It is definitely worth it if you have a NAS or other servers at home. I like to take photos and routinely transfer tens or hundreds of GB of files across the network for editing. 10gbe (or higher) is the only way to make that work.
It is definitely worth it if you have a NAS or other servers at home. I like to take photos and routinely transfer tens or hundreds of GB of files across the network for editing. 10gbe (or higher) is the only way to make that work.
Ubiquiti? $300: https://www.bhphotovide
And 10GBe obviously isn't "the only way" to make network transfers work. Rather than XGB of photos (just how many DO you have to transfer at once?) taking X seconds, it would take 10X seconds, give or take; for most people the overall impact to their life or their workflows in that type of scenario borders on "exactly none".
YMMV, your experience may vary, and you may disagree. Free country. But I don't think GBe is going to be replaced by 10GBe except for the home server / geek crowd for at least a few years yet.
I have an intel 12th gen currently and I'm increasingly annoyed by windows. Remember when search actually looked for files on your PC vs. searching the internet?!
Mac appeals to me for 1) iphone integration & 2) the hope of a more of a traditional "PC" experience (like windows used to have)
The big downside to me is the non-ability to upgrade apple silicon though.
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