Are used Mac Mini prices RISING?

[tibas92013]

My Refurbished i5 MM(Late 2014), 2.8GHz, 8GB Ram, 256GB SSD which I bought from the Apple On-Line Store last June has really served me well and was an excellent purchase for around $900. I am a "light" user in that this machine more than meets all my needs in surfing the web, writing memos, "burning" over 500 plus copies of my extensive DVD Collection, etc.

The above was my 2nd MM purchase as I purchased a Refurbished i5 MM(Late 2012), 2.5GHz,4GB Ram, 500GB HDD in 2013 and also very satisfied with this purchase. Last year I upgraded the RAM to 16GB and will be replacing the HDD with a SSD. IMO The SSD is the only way-to-go when purchasing another Mac!

MY MM(Late 2014) with the 256 SSD starts-up like "light-switch" when lighting up a room.

 

[dogslobber]

Well, the problem is, if you look at the mac rumors site, every mac except the imac is recommended as do not buy.

Us 2012'ers were saying the 2014 Mini was a do-not-buy since it was released :-D

 

[JackieInCo]

Us 2012'ers were saying the 2014 Mini was a do-not-buy since it was released :-D

I bought my 2012 i7 just a month before the 2014s were released and never once thought of returning it for the 2014. I just mine as an iTunes server so a 2014 could easily do that job but I'm not interested.

I still have the stock 1TB drive in there and have 16GB RAM just because it was so cheap.

 

[ziggy29]

I still have the 2012 i7 as my main Mac, mostly because I haven't seen anything compelling and affordable on the desktop that will replace it. The 2014s aren't much of an upgrade and are a downgrade in some respects. I don't want to have to pay for another display with an iMac. The Mac Pros are just way too costly. Apple has no interest in a midrange headless desktop computer -- middling between the Mini and the Pro -- especially not one that is user upgradeable. (That, of course, has been a gaping hole in the Apple product line for 10 years.) So for now I stick with the Mini, though it's possible that as I do less graphics-intensive gaming my next main computer will be a laptop.