if it is indeed soldered on AND it's not as easy to get inside to swap drives or add a 2nd drive, then that changes the Mini value equation for me a little bit-you'll be paying Apple to beef up your machine rather than rotating your own stuff inside and shopping for bargain RAM. They did not, so far so good.īut, if as stated the RAM is no longer user-upgradeable, i.e. I feared Apple would change the form of the Mini and severely reduce its footprint. What I like about the 2014 is they've kept the HDMI and added a 2nd Thunderbolt port (the loss of FW800 is no big deal unless you work with professional audio apps and have firewire interfaces, there has been some discussion that the inexpensive TB to firewire adaptor doesn't do bus power as reliably as native FW ports.) HDMI, two TB and a bunch of USB3 ports will be pretty nice on something so small, reliable and cool-running. I haven't read reports of anyone who has gotten one yet, but I doubt there's any significant difference in audio with the 2014's, we'll have to wait for an official tear-down but Apple's not gonna change course now and all of a sudden support the high def Bluray audio formats.
(I've been a Mac user for a very long time so I was invested in firewire for a long time and I jumped in on Thunderbolt very early, it has been nothing short of amazing.) After testing a 2012 for a while I went back to the 2011 with the HD 6630M graphics for my living room and have loved it ever since, using both the FW 800 and Thunderbolt for external storage. Click to expand.I think the 20 Minis are still powerful and flexible enough to handle HTPC duties for most of us here.I liked that they had both HDMI and Thunderbolt and for me they've always been fairly good bargains because you could put your own 2 drives inside and add your own RAM.
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