{"id":17036,"date":"2017-01-27T14:47:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T19:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17036"},"modified":"2017-05-07T04:41:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T08:41:04","slug":"rustys-next-mac-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/27\/rustys-next-mac-mini\/","title":{"rendered":"Rusty&rsquo;s Next &ldquo;Mac mini&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rustyshelf.org\/2017\/01\/07\/my-next-mac-mini\/\">Russell Ivanovic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/rustyshelf.org\/2017\/01\/07\/my-next-mac-mini\/\">\n<p>No worries you might say, go to Apple and buy a new Mac mini! Except when you do, you quickly realise there&rsquo;s something up with the Mac Mini[&#8230;] Yes that&rsquo;s right, it hasn&rsquo;t been updated in 813 days&#8230;and the last update Apple made to them was mostly a downgrade in terms of performance. No one except the most desperate of people should even consider buying one of these things. The fact that Apple will still happily sell you a 2-3 year old computer for new prices is beyond insulting.<\/p>\n<p>With the above in mind, I asked myself a question I haven&rsquo;t really considered since switching to macOS (the artist formerly known as OS X) back in the early 2000&rsquo;s. Do I actually need this computer to run macOS? I quickly realised I don&rsquo;t. I need Chrome, I need a few basic apps and I need my Elgato EyeTV Diversity USB stick to be supported so I can watch TV. It turns out there&rsquo;s another OS that has all those: Windows.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2017-05-07): <a href=\"https:\/\/rustyshelf.org\/2017\/05\/07\/my-next-mac-mini-part-2-the-minining\/\">Russell Ivanovic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/rustyshelf.org\/2017\/05\/07\/my-next-mac-mini-part-2-the-minining\/\"><p>Out of the box a few things struck me. Firstly: Just how small it was. If that iPhone 7 above doesn&rsquo;t give you an idea, here it is sitting on top of my old Mac Mini.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Ivanovic: No worries you might say, go to Apple and buy a new Mac mini! Except when you do, you quickly realise there&rsquo;s something up with the Mac Mini[&#8230;] Yes that&rsquo;s right, it hasn&rsquo;t been updated in 813 days&#8230;and the last update Apple made to them was mostly a downgrade in terms of performance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[261,30,557,219],"class_list":["post-17036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-intel","tag-mac","tag-macmini","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17925,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17036\/revisions\/17925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}