What's the point of the new mac mini?

Question

Mac Mini

Old:
ark.intel.com/ru/products/64900/Intel-Core-i7-3615...
www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-361...
New:
ark. intel.com/en/products/83506/Intel-Core-i7-4578...
www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-457...
That is, the processor seems to have gotten worse , or I did not understand something?
On a video card, compared to hd4000, you still can’t play anything:
www.notebook-center.ru/video_463.html
I see only a plus in the fact that you can connect a third monik now. Maybe there is something else that I missed?

Answer 1

Well, the graphics have become a little more powerful ...
Oh, so, of course, the new mac-mini has become worse. There are also incomprehensible rumors about the fact that the memory may have been soldered. It will be a total fail.
We urgently need to buy up stocks with the 2012 model :)) We use the youngest of the 2012 models as a piece of hardware for developers. We achieve memory up to 16GB, we connect two monitors. A handy piece of hardware for both iOS and Android developers.
And in the new model, building an application (just the same, a multi-threaded task) is potentially twice as slow. Well, or due to faster cores, perhaps it will simply remain at the same level.
Author: You brought the wrong processor in the link to the new one. there i5, not i7

Answer 2

Yes, there are no special pluses, the younger model was generally spoiled, there are no percents about anything, what was the youngest became the middle model and rose in price by $ 100. The pluses are cosmetic, the Wi-Fi is better and the second bolt was added (why the hell if even through one 6 devices you can attach a chain). The only real improvement in the most expensive model is the PCI-E SSD screw, but at the price of this model, you can already look towards the MacBook Pro. Slightly less power consumption, which is generally sideways on a stationary model. In general, an update for the sake of an update is not a single serious improvement.

Answer 3

Well, there are twice as many cores, so, that is, on multi-threaded applications, you can get a performance increase close to two.

Answer 4

In 2014, the memory is soldered and not replaced at all. Even in the service (official). So taking 8 GB, you can’t go to 16 anymore.