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it is the desktop that launched a million podcasts I'm talking about Apple Mac Mini this small Mac desktop been around for a long time and it was always the least expensive way to get into either an OS 10 or later Mac OS environment it started at $500 and people hooked it up and used it for video production for music and audio production they use it as a as a home server it could really fit anywhere and you didn't have a screen with it you brought your own keyboard and mouse it was a real small plug-and-play unobtrusive Mac computer really unlike anything else in line but it's also been sitting around unchanged since 2014 which was the last time I reviewed a Mac Mini and here we are at long last year 2018 with a brand new Mac Mini even though it looks the same I feel like they ought to call it the Mac Mini Pro because it's clearly been redesigned in order to appeal to all the pro and semi-pro users who use these for podcasts audio recordings or other creative jobs like that you can even see right here we've got this new Mac Mini hooked up to a music creation station so that gives you a good idea of how people use these devices now what they've done is they've upgraded the processor inside to an eighth gen along with the other new mat you get either quad 4 or 6 core processors here you can also get up to 64 gigs of ram and up to a 2 terabyte solid-state hard drive and that's all very impressive stuff that you need you probably won't have to hook up an external hard drive to store your content at least not as much as you would with the older man but I think more important is pretty much all of the other Macs have USBC board and that's pretty much it if you want to keep some old-school ports and connections on your Mac this and the iMac are pretty much your only choices you have got some USB C / thunderbolt ports on the back of this but you've also got a real-life Ethernet port note doc will required you've also got two USB 8 ports that's the old traditional style USB and of course you have got an HDMI port which is something that everyone finds very useful but you're not going to find out any new MacBook MacBook Air or macbook pro and that means you can use this as your content creation station a lot more easily than you could one of those other models where you'd have to hook up a bunch of dongles and stuff now the old Mac Mini started at $4.99 great entry price as with the MacBook Air this one is a little bit more expensive the starting price jumps up to $7.99 and that gets you a core i3 H gent Intel processor and if you want to move up to a core i5 or beyond well that's obviously going to cost more however this still is the least expensive way to get mac OS now in a computer in your house it is in a desktop form not at laptop form which is different than what most people have for their Mac experience but this guy has a ton of fans and they might even like the new space grey color as opposed to the more traditional silver color it was before otherwise looks pretty much the same on the outside understand there's no fingerprint reader on it but you do get that t2 security chip so that's pretty much across the board in almost all of the new Macs and this guy I believe you can order it starting today and it should be available maybe by next week that is Apple's new Mac Mini