

- #WHAT IS TURBO BOOST MAC MINI I7 MOVIE#
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My plan right now is to use Boot Camp on the Mac Mini to dual boot into Windows 10 and start playing around with PC gaming. I've wanted a setup that allows me to use both the macOS functionality for day to day work, but also give me the flexibility to experiment with PC gaming on sthe site. The most exciting idea of the Mini is using an eGPU for gaming. So I'll setup Boot Camp and dip my toes into PC gaming. Windows Desktop: As much as I appreciate that I have a Mac at work, so many of the things I work with today are Windows based, especially the world of PC games.iTune Server: We still have a mix of Roku and Apple TV's in the house, so to stream ripped movies I'll turn on iTunes Sharing off the Mac Mini.Plex Server: I'll resurrect my Plex server after my previous Mac Mini decided it was doing enough work.The new Mac Mini will a home server for several projects: So for $80 more I could have 32GB ram in the same configuration I ordered. So if I'd done a little more math before I ordered, 2 I could have saved myself a bit of money and a higher spec Mini. So doing a little searching I found a 32GB memory kit is currently going for around $280. Specifically, it looks like DDR-4 PC4-21300, non-ECC unbuffered RAM. In conversations with Apple corporate employees, we've been told that users with a "modicum of skill" 4 can get to the pair of RAM slots.Īpple says that the new Mac mini uses 2666MHZ DDR4 SO-DIMM RAM. The slots are SO-DIMM slots, and are mostly accessible to the user. After I placed the ordered I got some additional information from an Apple Insider review. As you can see the cost for memory isn't additive, but multiplicative.īased on the pricing I went with the 16GB option because at the time I ordered the Mini, I wasn't sure if the memory upgradable. The memory options when I ordered the Mac Mini are shown below.

This is the option I could have been smarter about.
#WHAT IS TURBO BOOST MAC MINI I7 MOVIE#
While the speeds of the built-in PCI drives are impressive, most of my file storage will be on external drives anyway - movie library, photo collection, etc. Going with a smaller hard drive could have been an option due to the four USB-C ports and how cheap external storage is right now. My current laptop for work has a 512GB SSD and that's been the right size for almost 3 years now. This was probably the easiest choice to make. So I opted for the best processor I could get right now. My Mac Mini will not only be my desktop computer, but will also be the media server for our house. The 3.2GHz 6-core Intel Core i7 processor has 12MB of shared 元 cache, Turbo Boost speeds of up to 4.6GHz, and Hyper-Threading technology. The standard 3.0GHz 6-core Intel Core i5 processor has 9MB of shared 元 cache and features Turbo Boost speeds of up to 4.1GHz. 1 Two, only the i7 processors have hyper threading. One, Apple is using the relatively recent version of Intel CPU's. The Mac Mini has been updated to use eighth generation Intel CPU's. I needed to find something in the middle. The fully decked out version, with all the bells and whistles, sets you back $4200. The other three options did give me something to think about because not all choices are an easy financial decision. I don't foresee the need for 10 Gbit networking in my future, so I opted for the default Gigabit ethernet card. The Mac Mini has 4 configurable items when you order it: Overall this will be setup that I can live with for quite a while.

This led me to go with the Mac I've been hoping would be updated for over 6 years.

#WHAT IS TURBO BOOST MAC MINI I7 PRO#
The iPad Pro has everything I believe I'd want, except an OS to achieve the 'Pro' status the iPad has in it's name. As much as I wanted to love the new MacBook Air, the power and flexibility didn't hit enough cylinders to trigger my 'Must Buy' button. My recent internal deliberations on what to replace my ailing computer setup has led to quite a few false starts on what I put into my virtual shopping cart.
