A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis(arstechnica.com)
61 points by pseudolus | 26 comments
Ars Technica article about a Cray-1 supercomputer replica built from 30 old Mac Minis at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
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The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)(yuka.dev)
249 points by signa11 | 168 comments
A blog post detailing how the author first booted Linux on an Apple M4 Mac mini, building on Asahi Linux work.
Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini(nyaa.sh)
263 points by hugh4life | 114 comments
A blog review of running cycle-accurate retro PC emulation in 86Box on an M6 Mac Mini, reaching an emulated 600MHz Pentium II with Voodoo 3.
Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month(codyho.dev)
386 points by ADevWithAnIdea | 233 comments
Blog post by Cody Ho describing building an OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux GPU driver for the M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Neo in about a month using AI prompting.
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio(macrumors.com)
475 points by thm | 555 comments
MacRumors article reporting that Apple's new Mac mini and Mac Studio launch was driven by unexpectedly strong enterprise demand for AI hardware, citing The Information.
New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro(apple.com)
526 points by runako | 326 comments
Apple Newsroom press release announcing a new Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro chips, touting faster AI performance, graphics, storage, and connectivity.
Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston(apple.com)
601 points by haunter | 618 comments
Apple Newsroom announcement that Mac mini production will begin at a new Houston facility later this year, alongside a new advanced manufacturing training center.
Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents(twitter.com)
351 points by Cyphase | 795 comments
Andrej Karpathy's X post about buying a Mac mini to try 'claws', security worries about OpenClaw, and claws as a new layer on top of LLM agents.
OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been(jakequist.com)
454 points by jakequist | 382 comments
Blog post arguing that OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework driving Mac Mini sales, is what Apple Intelligence should have been.
Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price(jeffgeerling.com)
406 points by speckx | 253 comments
Jeff Geerling blog post on upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's internal storage with a DIY kit for about half Apple's price.
iMac G4(K)(jcs.org)
394 points by ingve | 156 comments
Blog post by Joshua Stein about putting an M4 Mac Mini inside a vintage iMac G4 enclosure, inspired by an Action Retro video.
M4 Mac mini's efficiency(jeffgeerling.com)
518 points by marinesebastian | 515 comments
Jeff Geerling blog post from November 2024 on the power efficiency of Apple's M4 Mac mini, written amid his Pi 5 GPU and AmpereOne server testing.
New Mac Mini with M4(apple.com)
364 points by victorbjorklund | 544 comments
Apple press release announcing the redesigned Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro chips, built for Apple Intelligence and billed as the first carbon neutral Mac.
Hacker mods an M1 Mac mini to receive power over Ethernet instead of AC(inferse.com)
401 points by nrsapt | 145 comments
Article about a hardware hacker modifying an M1 Mac mini to be powered via Power over Ethernet instead of AC; the page shows a WordPress database connection error.