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New Mac Minis, No Quad Core, No Server

Do you think the base model will be able to act as media center with Plex? And then i am mainly concerned about on the fly transcoding.
 
The lack of Quad-Core is going to make people pissed. As they should be. So ridiculous that it is not even an option (especially after two years of waiting for this thing).
 
zedsdead said:
The lack of Quad-Core is going to make people pissed. As they should be. So ridiculous that it is not even an option (especially after two years of waiting for this thing).
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What i find frustrating is that we are in 2014 and Apple still does not offer an SSD in the default build. Its not even an BTO! And if the memory isnt user replaceable then the hdd surely wont be either.
 
kainjow said:
They probably want to better separate the Mac Pro and Mac mini. And this is certainly one way to do it, but the Mac Pro is overkill for GPU for those of us who don't want that power and just want a good CPU.
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Bingo!! Well said!! A quad-core Mac Mini would arguably be more powerful than the new Mac Pro and would cannibalize its sales. Hence the 'lighter version'. Glad i got a quad-core when i did!
 
This looks to me like if Apple was trying to push people away from the Mini, so they won't get too many complaints when they kill it for good.

I guess they're planning on either make a -more- base Mac Pro or lower current prices. There's people out there who already own monitors and don't need an iMac.
 
I suspect the internals are designed for Broadwell and after the Intel delay, they slightly redesigned what they had to accept a Haswell CPU. The use of LPDDR3 would seem to support that. The rather lengthy delay and modest CPU choices this time around would also support that. Perhaps they are going fanless with Broadwell in a smaller form factor and this is just an interim bridge to get there.
 
VirtualRain said:
I suspect the internals are designed for Broadwell and after the Intel delay, they slightly redesigned what they had to accept a Haswell CPU. The use of LPDDR3 would seem to support that. The rather lengthy delay and modest CPU choices this time around would also support that. Perhaps they are going fanless with Broadwell in a smaller form factor and this is just an interim bridge to get there.
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This is what I am hoping as well. Hopefully Broadwell minis won't take as long as Haswell did.

The irony is that the 2nd model would be a good base model (if they could add Flash or Fusion it would be ideal)
 
Like others I was ready to order. Now without a quad-core I don't know. The $839.00 i7 2.6 at B&H might be a better deal.
 
i have mac mini late 2012 with upgraded cpu i7-3720qm - that's quad core, right?
at the new mini there is an option to upgrade the cpu to quad core. so why you all say that there isn't quad core cpu?
 
Absolutely pathetic 'upgrade'. Should've had a quad-core Iris Pro option at the high-end. Thankfully that section of the keynote was incredible short since they knew they had nothing worthy of mentioning.

Hopefully there is already a new redesign waiting for the appropriate Broadwell parts, but by the looks of it, the Mini will only get weaker with its future fanless design.
 
People don't get it. The Mac Pro isn't a competitor for the Mini. The competitor is the iMac. More and more users don't want an "all in one",
and they'd buy a Mini instead if it had similar performance. They just upgraded the iMac to retina display for making the "all in one" attractive again, but keeping a powerful Mini was still risky for the iMac, so they decided to give an advantage to the iMac
 
Bensal1992 said:
i have mac mini late 2012 with upgraded cpu i7-3720qm - that's quad core, right?
at the new mini there is an option to upgrade the cpu to quad core. so why you all say that there isn't quad core cpu?
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No, there isn't. There is an option to upgrade to a different dual-core CPU.
 
COrocket said:
Regarding the server model being dropped - Is it just me or can you still buy a Mac mini and download the server applications and get the same functionality? To my knowledge people were doing this with the 2012 models because there was no special hardware with the previous server, just Apple charging a mark up the extra hard drive and server apps.
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The server model had a quad core i7 you only got with the server model and double HDD.
There was a 2.3GHz Quad i7 and a 2.6 Quad i7 that came in the Server Mini.
 
Bensal1992 said:
the base model comes with dual core but there is an option to upgrade to quad core cpu, that's is what I'm trying to say.
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Here's exactly what the apple website (http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/mac-mini) says:

Configure to Order
Configure your Mac mini with these options, only at the Apple Online Store.

1.4GHz Mac mini
8GB or 16GB LPDDR3 memory upgrade
1TB Fusion Drive
Apple Remote

2.6GHz Mac mini
3.0GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 processor
16GB LPDDR3 memory upgrade
1TB Fusion Drive
256GB of flash storage (SSD)
Apple Remote

2.8GHz Mac mini
3.0GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 processor
16GB LPDDR3 memory upgrade
256GB, 512GB, or 1TB of flash storage (SSD)
Apple Remote
 
I watched the media presentation today and when the presentation came to the Mac-Mini upgrade the enthusiasm seemed down, sort of an afterthought.

The new high end Mac-Mini has up to a 3.0Ghz duel-core with 8G ram and a 1TB solid state drive - $1199. And, of course, OS-X Yosemite.

No more server edition, no quad core processor.

I had, just last week, bought a 2.6Ghz quad-core OS-X server Mac-mini not waiting for the big Apple announcement. The mini I had ordered is still en-route from Shenzhen, China. Guess I've gotten the last new Mac-Mini Server.
 
Harrald said:
What i find frustrating is that we are in 2014 and Apple still does not offer an SSD in the default build. Its not even an BTO! And if the memory isnt user replaceable then the hdd surely wont be either.
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I was hoping for a more cost-effective SSD option... The minimum SSD config is $900 now instead of $1,000. Better than no soup I suppose.

This is one of those "updates" that makes it easy to continue doing nothing.
 
Ok, I guess you're right.
but why at intel website is written that my cpu is quad core and apple write that is dual core.
 
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