Apple's Logic Pro X music-creation software, according to a rep I spoke with, is among the Apple software most highly extensible to using all available cores, and it managed a 100-plus-track song from Beck with aplomb. In some of the demos I witnessed, the core-crunching power was on full display. I wouldn't call the raw counts on the 2018 Mac mini quite that, but a four-core minimum (in a lean Core i3 SKU that I suspect most mini loyalists will bypass for the six-core beef) and the option to bounce that up is very promising for a machine of this size.Īpple did not specify which if any of the new chips (four-core or hexa-core) support Hyper-Threading, but gauging from the claims of up to '5x better performance,' I will hazard a guess that some, if not all, support the thread-doubling tech. In these days of eight-core/16-thread mainstream CPUs like the Intel Core i9-9900K ($587.00 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window), gaudy core/thread counts on desktop PCs are not unusual. More Core (and more-core) power is the big story here. This revision of the Mac mini doesn't look as radical on the outside as the MacBook Air's hard reboot (it only comes in space gray and looks much like its predecessor), but it gets an oversize component upgrade across the board. The Mac mini had not seen a major update in so long (2014!) that many Mac watchers had assumed Apple's littlest desktop would just die quietly of neglect. The same with the long-neglected Mac mini: With this update, Apple essentially fast-forwarded matters by four years. The 2017 MacBook Air, which in essence was more in line with a 2015 laptop, saw almost every aspect of it kicked into 2018 in a mega-overhauled new MacBook Air. How to Set Up Two-Factor AuthenticationĪpple's 2018 Mac event was a big-time catching-up, making-amends session.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.

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