Intel i3, Intel Graphics, 8GB 2666, 128SSD Macroni. Toss a good m.2 drive in, snap in 16GB DDR4-3200, boom. Would be nice peace of mind for some.Īt those prices tbh if I wanted something small/tiny I'd get the Skull 8 NUC i7 w/AMD 'Vega' (actually Polaris IIRC). I know it would be slightly slower, but we're approaching the threshold of $99 1TB/960GB SSDs (probably by August 2019 at the latest). Wonder what would happen if you just ignored the onboard storage from the jump and 'recovery' installed MacOS to a USB C/Thunderbolt SSD. I live in a place where I'm lucky to get 3mbit upload, I'm not uploading hundreds and hundreds of GBs of data lol. And for someone like me, cloud backup is only for the most basic documents etc. Yes, you should always have backups, but jeez, how many pennies per unit difference would it cost them to have a frakking m.2 nVME socket for the thing.

Soldered basically guarantees that your data is in the circular file should you have any significant failure of the mainboard. So convenient to be able to pop m.2 or even mSata SSD into my USB adapters for quick recovery/transfer/etc.

The soldered storage is a no from me dawg.

Mac mini 2018 upgradable