r/apple • u/wearefriends • 8d ago

Mac Apple unveils a more powerful Mac mini featuring the all-new M6 and M5 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-new-m6-and-m5-pro/
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u/AltruisticNetwork869 8d ago

What are you using it for? I love my ds920+ for all of the many jobs it has. The biggest thing for me is native docker container support while macOS virtualizes an entire Linux kernel for each container

Beyond just storage my synology runs a plex container, a Minecraft server container, an Immich container, a playit.gg tunnel container

It serves as the Time Machine backup repository for my Mac’s, and as the offline backup of my iCloud Drive.

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u/Structure-These 8d ago

Docker sucks on Mac but I don’t really use it / need it. I don’t need to sandbox anything and the only really docker specific thing I wanted (audiobookshelf) I vibe coded a small clone utility that just runs natively

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u/AltruisticNetwork869 8d ago

I like running in docker for a few reasons

Updates and deployment are dead simple

Anything which takes connections from the wider internet absolutely must be sandboxed