

While it's great as a 'switcher' device at home, many of those people are abandoning the desktop computer completely and buying notebooks or tablets instead.

The justification for this price change is really in the hardware – and, perhaps, the types of people buying the Mac Mini.
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That's how we first came to the Mac Mini, replacing an outdated PC with something a lot smaller, running Mac OS, while keeping all our accessories.Īpple says that this proposition has changed slightly over the years, as the Mac Mini has found fame with studios and creatives who want power in a tiny package – which explains some of the hardware repositioning in 2018. When it launched it was very much a 'switcher' device: you could remove your old PC and connect this Mac to your existing hardware – so if you had an old mouse, keyboard and monitor then you were good to go. That's important because of what the Mac Mini is. Thunderbolt 3 – those small-scale USB-C ports to the rear – really is a versatile and powerful connection and if you've been reluctant to upgrade, there's an inevitability about its growing dominance. That's joined by Ethernet and HDMI as well as a 3.5mm headphone socket, so while the Thunderbolt 3 is ready to offer diverse connections, there's enough to let you conventionally connect this PC to existing devices. While the design is pretty much the same as it was before – with exactly the same footprint – spin it around and there's a big change: the 2018 Mac Mini loses some legacy connections, reducing USB 2.0 to two slots and offering four additional Thunderbolt 3 connections.
