Do note only 256 GB of storage. Should be enough for most people, but at the same time can become very annoying once it gets full.
1) external storage to become faster and cheaper every year (subject to constraints around interface)
2) more and more digital assets to be cloud-native, e.g. photos stored exclusively on icloud and not on your computer
So I'm less worried about storage than some. If Asahi Linux achieves Proton-like compatibility with games [0], then we're getting closer to the perfect general purpose game console.
[0] https://asahilinux.org/2024/10/aaa-gaming-on-asahi-linux/
If you need/require Thunderbolt 5, you'll have to step up from $599 to $1399+ for the M4 Pro-based mac mini's.
• Risk of accidental unplugging.
• Contacts may become wonky over time → see above.
• The need to sacrifice a port (or the portion of one in the case of a dongle).
• Enclosures tend to have annoying IO lights.
• Takes a bit of space.
All of these can be solved, especially when dealing with a desktop that stays in place. Paradoxically, there was never a better time to be modest with internal storage.
Although I will say:
> photos stored exclusively on icloud and not on your computer
Over my dead body :) If there’s one thing I’ll always happily carve out SSD space for, it’s local copies of my photo library!
Basically, the only thing half-working are slow paced story games and slow strategy games (mostly turn based), which ironically require little ressource most of the time (so why pay for cloud service ?!).
Like most things "cloud" conceptually it is seductive but in practice extremely compromised.
mini-ITX case start around 3L nowadays...
This is quite possibly the dumbest comment I have ever read on Hacker News. Congratulations!
Apple just charge a lot of money for upgrades, even did when it was trivial to do them yourself, and they're not going to change once they made it impossible to do any kind of internal upgrade.