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ac29 • yesterday at 4:18 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> a $500 Mac Mini has memory bandwidth that you just can’t get anywhere else for the price.

The cheapest new mac mini is $600 on Apple's US store.

And it has a 128-bit memory interface using LPDDR5X/7500, nothing exotic. The laptop I bought last year for <$500 has roughly the same memory speed and new machines are even faster.

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jsheard • yesterday at 4:26 PM

> The cheapest new mac mini is $600 on Apple's US store.

And you're only getting 16GB at that base spec. It's $1000 for 32GB, or $2000 for 64GB plus the requisite SOC upgrade.

> And it has a 128-bit memory interface using LPDDR5X/7500, nothing exotic.

Yeah, 128-bit is table stakes and AMD is making 256-bit SOCs as well now. Apple's higher end Max/Ultra chips are the ones which stand out with their 512 and 1024-bit interfaces. Those have no direct competition.