Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderI can't use my M1 mini with non-retina monitor because of how blurry it is. They stopped providing font anti-aliasing (default on Windows) few years ago in MacOS to make retina displays more relevant.
Still no real GPU. It's the reason I went back to a MacBook. What drew me in is the desktop class i7. At the time the Mini outperformed all other Macs in benchmarks, and it is noticeable and fast during compile times etc. Once you connect a 4k Screen (or even more screens), an eGPU becomes a must have. The integrated one just can't do smooth UI rendering. For example typing in IntelliJ always felt laggy, because it takes so…
I seriously do not understand how can it ship with a 500GB 5400rpm drive by default. This gives such poor experience to the user that Apple should have opted for all-ssd approach two generations ago. Very disappointed by that.
10gbe, 64gb ram, they've gone full server farm with the mac mini. I like it.
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- Breakout years
- 4
- Total points
- 868
- Total comments
- 834
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-10-23 | New Mac Mini | Charles__L | 3 | 3 |
| 2014-10-16 | Apple Mac MiniFirst breakout | computerjunkie | 192 | 129 |
| 2018-10-30 | New Mac Mini | zerealshadowban | 84 | 50 |
| 2020-03-18 | Mac mini | tosh | 283 | 248 |
| 2020-11-11 | Apple compare M1 with Intel i3Hall induction | botayhard | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-01-17 | New Mac MiniBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | antr | 305 | 404 |