Best spec yet I’ve seen for the Mini… great chart Adam. I finally got it together to get a kill-a-watt on my cMP power cord. Just sitting here reading this page, it’s drawing 150W. Depending on what I am doing, that can shoot up to over 200W. In winblowz, runs around 200W idle. Playing my fave MMORPG jacks it up to 380-410W. I just wonder what a new pc machine would draw…
As for storage, I’ ve seen a video with a guy getting just about 1k Mb/s on a 256GB model. That’s awful. I’ve seen guys testing a 512GB model and getting into the 3k range. While I think at some future point, we may be able to buy those little prepopulated boards to upgrade storage, I expect them to be nowhere in sight for at least 6 months. AND will the fruit do it’s thing and invalidate using them. Not an unusual move for Cupertino as they are FAR likelier to get away from it in the current climate.
A 1T boot drive is what I think I’m going to go for. My bet is the disk i/o might be faster still than 3k as I have seen a video showing a “hacked” (might have been iFixIt itself) 2T install hit around 5k. Now some may say get 512G then an external drive. Aside from speed issues, that means 2 of the 3 ports taken up (remember one has to have some backup solution).