But there’s nothing more convenient than built-in ports, and looking at this objectively, it’s a downgrade for the mini’s expandability. Technically, the USB-C ports are more advanced (USB 4), and you can daisy-chain Thunderbolt devices to your heart’s content. Apple has gone from four USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 ports to just two - plus the pair of USB-A ports that are still present. I say mostly because compared to the new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro, the Mac mini has actually undergone the most significant outward design change: it lost a couple of ports. As a result, it’s technically the best performer - even if only by a smidge.īuy for $699.00 from Apple Buy for $699.00 from B&H Photo Buy for $1,299.00 from B&H PhotoĪside from returning to a silver exterior from the previous space gray, this mini looks mostly like the old one. Like that machine, the mini has a fan for cooling, but it also has the most efficiently cooled chassis of all the new M1 Macs. But the Apple M1 chip stays the same no matter which configuration you choose, and it matches the one in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro. The review unit I received costs $1,299, as it increases the SSD size to 1TB and doubles the memory.
For that money, you get an eight-core CPU, eight-core GPU, 256GB of storage, and 8GB of RAM. (It’s also worth noting that Apple was using the mini as its early Arm test unit for developers, so the company was already partway to a consumer product.)Īpple has dropped the starting price for the M1-powered Mac mini down to $699, which is $100 less than before. Apple opened new possibilities for the mini with the big upgrade it got in 2018, and two years later, it’s one of the first three Macs to transition away from Intel processors and showcase the potential of Apple silicon and the M1 chip. Sure, most people go for the traditional experience and plug in a display, mouse, and keyboard - but you can also have it serve as a home theater PC, or put it to work with professional photo or audio editing, or turn a group of minis into a server farm. Ability to organise contacts hierarchically (through tags or otherwise).The Mac mini has always been Apple’s most flexible desktop computer.Import capability (from *.csv, Excel, Numbers etc.).My three most important wishes for future versions would be: I am sure it will develop much further and have a lot of helpful features. (I can of course also directly see it through the correspondence that Bus圜ontacts automatically displays).īusyMac support has been extremely helpful during my testing of the software. The tag in Bus圜ontacts will help me to always know whether a particular person has received a copy of that particular paper. that I cited that particular scholar in this paper) while providing standard information about the publication. With its custom fields TextExpander let me personalise each message and to include or exclude optional parts (e.g. Subsequently, I used TextExpander to write all these emails. Then I generated emails for every contact with that tag directly from Bus圜ontacts. I first assigned a special tag to all the people I wanted to send the article. Recently I disseminated a newly published article using Bus圜ontacts. I have already used Bus圜ontacts to organise a workshop and to map academic disciplines in an emerging network. The Tags work much smoother than Groups in Contacts because (a) you can add them while editing a card without reaching your mouse and (b) each card shows all its Tags (have you ever wondered to which Groups your particular contact card belongs?). customisable fields, colour-coded tags, and displaying email correspondence with a particular contact. I have really enjoyed Bus圜ontacts, which not only can replace Apple’s Contacts but can even compete with large CRMs such as Daylite.īus圜ontacts has many indispensable features, e.g. Last week this software (developed by the maker of my favorite Bus圜al) released the first official version. Three months ago, I started using beta-version of Bus圜ontacts, which a reader suggested in a comment to the post on organising academic contacts.
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