Mac mini price increase suggest no new model soon?

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3rd party retailers in Australia (not the Apple store or apple online) tend to decrease their prices and move stock out. You're probably right though in that that price decrease is not an official apple price and probably done more on guess work and not official release dates.

Having said that, my main focus in the post was that official prices have increased which I have never seen happen before a release. I can't see apple increasing prices and then release a new model so I think the new release date is further off than most originally estimated.

Anyway it is all guess work.

Actually I have witnessed this, years ago I was in our only Apple retailer in town (London Drugs) drooling over a G5 iMac but not quite ready to pay the price. While I stood there fondling the pretty white thing the clerk came up and marked the price down by $500. Needless to say that was all it took, I grabbed it.
This was just before the newer iMacs, I think the model with a camera built in came out.

Interesting, I haven't seen it before in the States but sounds like it does happen other places at times. Thanks for the info.