So, should I get a Mac Mini now?

[minik]

mac minis hold value. you are correct that mac book airs don't do as well. Since I am the one that said a 2011 mini would hold value. I will stand by that . Mac book airs do not count

I sold my refurbished Mac mini Server (2010) during the WWDC 2012 week on Craigslist and I got $560.

I paid $929 included 9.5% sales tax back in Sept/2010, up the memory to 8GB myself and Lion server later on.

Of course, now I need a newer Mac mini.

 

[philipma1957]

I sold my refurbished Mac mini Server (2010) during the WWDC 2012 week on Craigslist and I got $560.

I paid $929 included 9.5% sales tax back in Sept/2010, up the memory to 8GB myself and Lion server later on.

Of course, now I need a newer Mac mini.

because the time to sell it was july 2011 to dec 2011.

with lion on one hdd and snow on the other hdd.

I got 1150 and made a 150 dollar profit. when I sold mine in nov 2011. people had not converted from snow and needed a translator machine. you missed a huge opportunity by waiting to sell it.

In fact i sold a 2010 2.4 base model less then 1 month ago for over 600 dollars the mods were. 8gb ram nothing else.

why did it sell for 600 plus. it is the last of the dvd models and it can run snow , lion and mountain lion.

you need to understand what people want in the used mac market.

here is the sale:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/16084371569...OX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1562.l2649#ht_596wt_1398

note to mods this sale is over. it is just to show the resale value of a mac mini.

 

[comatory]

It's likely there is going to be a new Mac Mini, as Apple have refreshed them every year in the past, and it's seems logical that Apple will refresh them this year adding ivy bridge processors, intel 4000 and USB3.
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No true, there was no new mini in 2008.

 

[blanka]

Go get it. If you take the introduction dates of all the Mini's (the major updates), and average the intervals, you will see the next one comes around november 7th. Pretty far away. The don't buy is really weird on this website.
So there might be a marginal speed bump sooner, but for Ivy Bridge, you have to wait till the holiday season at least. But if you know the Ivy comes at the end of the year, a speed bumped Sandy won't come any more.

Dates: Interval (days)
11-01-05
28-02-06 413
07-08-07 525
03-03-09 574
15-06-10 469
20-07-11 400
average is 476 days
Ivy bridge is coming around 7-nov-2012

And the Mini 2011 will hold value as it is available with discrete graphics (the Ivy one will come with HD4000 probably), you can pump in a SSD and 16Gb, allows serious expansion and external drive bays over TB, and because it runs software from 2001-20xx as it will be the last Mini to handle Rosetta.

Another thing: Ivy Bridge is a Tick in Intel terms: same architecture, smaller fab process. So don't expect big speed bumps from it. It will run cooler mostly, and maybe Apple will use it to make the mini even more mini (iFixit repairability <3, SSD and RAM pre-mount, HD room removed to shrink the case) instead of using the fab process to pump a quad i7 into the base model and thus cannibalizing MacPro's/iMacs/MBP's.

 

[Che Castro]

The thing is that if you wait till October and no new mac mini comes out, then they'll be people saying wait till march maybe the mac mini will come out with the iPad

So if you wait , u might be waiting a long time who knows


Im at least going to wait till sept 12