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Originally Posted by turtle
I do agree... and that is where heat pipes and other thermal management comes into play. I get that they liked the shape of the current mini, but it could easily be made smaller and maintain the same performance/thermals. If the teardown shows it with that much wasted space then I totally see them shrinking it. Having torn minis down on multiple occasions I can say the airflow pattern doesn't need more space. It pulls from the bottom and exhausts out the back. All the void is wasted.
I mean, unless they let us add internal SATA/PCIe drives to it. I don't expect that to happen though.
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I know what it looks like, I upgraded drives and RAM in my 2012 Mac mini a few times. I also looked at tear downs of the 2018, which I also have. Airflow is poor at best, as it is extremely restricted, thermal throttled the CPU constantly and thus heavily limited performance, without using third party fan speed controllers that helped a little. The new models having more internal space is a very good thing.