Given the new Mac Mini, would you still build your own PC now? I was seriously considering going the Hackintosh route, but the new Mini seems to provide fair value for its price.
I spent about € 1100-1200 on my current desktop, it has a Ryzen 1700, 32 GB RAM and 750 GB SSD storage, plus a GeForce GTX960.
Let me just make a quick check: With a six-core CPU (my Ryzen has 8, although per-core performance is lower), 32 GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD, the new Mac Mini would cost me € 2209 in Apple's online shop. If I take 8GB RAM and upgrade myself, the machine itself is € 1489, plus about € 250 for RAM, so about 1739 bucks. I have no idea how much that would cost me in the US.
Nah, I think I still would have built my own machine. Plus, it was surprisingly fun. More laborious than I remembered, but fun. I have to admit, though, the Mini looks gorgeous in Space Grey, and I like that they have upped the performance significantly.
I briefly considered building a Hackintosh, but from what I heard, it is too much trouble for me. I am pretty happy with openSuse Tumbleweed running the MATE desktop. Setting up additional repositories for proper video playback was a little annoying, but it was a one-time thing, and things Just Work(tm) now. ;-)
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Given the new Mac Mini, would you still build your own PC now? I was seriously considering going the Hackintosh route, but the new Mini seems to provide fair value for its price.
I spent about € 1100-1200 on my current desktop, it has a Ryzen 1700, 32 GB RAM and 750 GB SSD storage, plus a GeForce GTX960.
Let me just make a quick check: With a six-core CPU (my Ryzen has 8, although per-core performance is lower), 32 GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD, the new Mac Mini would cost me € 2209 in Apple's online shop. If I take 8GB RAM and upgrade myself, the machine itself is € 1489, plus about € 250 for RAM, so about 1739 bucks. I have no idea how much that would cost me in the US.
Nah, I think I still would have built my own machine. Plus, it was surprisingly fun. More laborious than I remembered, but fun. I have to admit, though, the Mini looks gorgeous in Space Grey, and I like that they have upped the performance significantly.
I briefly considered building a Hackintosh, but from what I heard, it is too much trouble for me. I am pretty happy with openSuse Tumbleweed running the MATE desktop. Setting up additional repositories for proper video playback was a little annoying, but it was a one-time thing, and things Just Work(tm) now. ;-)