New Mac Mini Delayed Because...

[jamesryanbell]

Got an offer I couldn't refuse on my 2011 Mac Mini Server last night ($750), so it's gone. Hope the waiting game for a new Mini isn't forever. May just pull the trigger on a refurb 2012 2.3Ghz i7. I'm sure there are others in a "need" situation as well.

If I could use my ACD (non-Thunderbolt) as a second monitor with an iMac, I'd go that route, but I've heard you can't do that.

 

[rr6013]

No Mac mini… here's the deal. Mac mini is olde school; from the days of separate component stereos. It's not a bad apple just too small to sell ( ergo an iMac sale).
What Mac mini represents are millions of dedicated use case Mac applications driven daily into obsolescence.
Apple now have antiquated hardware atop an obsolete software suite generations behind iDevice integrations.
The matrix of broken promises and software incompatibility is beyond Rubiks Cube possibilities.

 

[Crosscreek]

Apple in crisis mode...

 

[Snappers]

no, grace "the b-l-e-s-s-i-n-g"

LMAO! I was seriously watching a Betty Boop cartoon when I read your comment.

 

[Falhófnir]

This thread is oooollld... but while we're at it, I now don't think the Mini will likely get a direct replacement - it just makes no sense to leave a product in limbo for this long if its just a case of dropping a new chip in - but rather like the 'successor' to the MacBook air (rMB and ntbMBP) The mini's target clientele will be and split redirected to either an iMac, Mac Pro, or the rumoured new entry level MacBook.

 

[Micky Do]

This thread is oooollld... but while we're at it, I now don't think the Mini will likely get a direct replacement - it just makes no sense to leave a product in limbo for this long if its just a case of dropping a new chip in - but rather like the 'successor' to the MacBook air (rMB and ntbMBP) The mini's target clientele will be and split redirected to either an iMac, Mac Pro, or the rumoured new entry level MacBook.

Yeah, yeah...... But when the Mac Mini came out in 2005 I got one, my first computer, because it was a match for my situation, as it was for others. Not having to deal with the vagaries of Windows was, and remains a bonus.

I had neither desire nor need for the grunt of a Mac Pro, and still don't. I had neither need nor desire for a laptop to tote from home to campus to cheeky cafe, and still don't.... I did want something I can use with a decent sized monitor (which the iMac has) and also easily occasionally transportable (which the iMac isn't).

When the Mac Mini came out it filled a niche, that wasn't being catered to by the iMac, Mac Pro, or the MacBook. It still does.

 

[Partron22]

Apple's got people walking around their new building tearing off sticky notes people put on the glass so they don't inadvertently run into a wall and break their nose.
-Much higher priority than a new Mini.

 

[Cape Dave]

Apple's got people walking around their new building tearing off sticky notes people put on the glass so they don't inadvertently run into a wall and break their nose.
-Much higher priority than a new Mini.

The truth is so darn funny!