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That's the gap I have a hard time seeing the iTime/Watch crossing.

Watches have become fashion accessories more than functional items. Few men wear watches these days, and those who do usually do it to compliment business attire. There seems to be more 'casual' watches sold to women...but many of those are more the larger and bracelet style watches that are in fashion these days.

Apple seems to want to bring functionality back to the watch. But if it doesn't meet the needs of the decreasing watch market...you better bring a whole lot of incredible functionality to make it worthwhile to the people who don't wear watches.

I think it'll flop miserably. Not in that it's a bad device, but in that most people aren't going to see a value/need for it that they don't get from their other devices.

I wear a watch and a fitbit everyday. (One on each wrist) The iTime is supposedly going to have very intelligent systems built in for activity monitoring, heart beat monitoring, etc. This is where Apple is going to gain the ground and make the sales, because they will do all of these things right. (I am assuming, since all their other devices do things better in comparison to rival companies)

People are into fitness MORE THAN EVER today, so with an iPhone, and a iTime, paired with the new Healthbook software in iOS 8 people will snatch these watches up ilke hotcakes. IMO.
 
About the iWatch (and all other sort of wereables except Glasses), there are an overrated interest on early adopters, I consider it's real market much much smaller than expected, 90% of people now uses watches only as fashion accessories, so an iWatch will be for a while a fashion, not something that come to stay as the iPhone.

I have more interested on a new iMac or also a new airport time capsule with osx server features in than on an iWatch.
 
With Broadwell delayed, I wonder what Apple will have to announce along with Yosemite in October? Maybe nothing. Maybe a retina thunderbolt monitor? But what, other than nMP, could drive it? A Haswell for the mini would not seem to be in the cards for October due to its underwhelming nature, Iris notwithstanding. So either it's Haswell sometime in the next month, or nothing until 2015, I'm thinking.
 
With Broadwell delayed, I wonder what Apple will have to announce along with Yosemite in October? Maybe nothing. Maybe a retina thunderbolt monitor? But what, other than nMP, could drive it? A Haswell for the mini would not seem to be in the cards for October due to its underwhelming nature, Iris notwithstanding. So either it's Haswell sometime in the next month, or nothing until 2015, I'm thinking.

All the new features of Yosemite will work on the current (yet old) minis, so there is no reason that they would have to announce new ones in October.
 
Any news on what the possible graphics card could be on an updated mini?

None, as of yet. I seriously doubt it will be anything other than Intel graphics which is fine by me as it will be hooked to my Samsung HDTV and I won't be doing any gaming on it. :)
 
None, as of yet. I seriously doubt it will be anything other than Intel graphics which is fine by me as it will be hooked to my Samsung HDTV and I won't be doing any gaming on it. :)

I think Iris Pro is not too bad for gaming, isn't it?
 
I think Iris Pro is not too bad for gaming, isn't it?

its does 720p gaming on low pretty good. games that are not too graphically demanding like sports games or some older shooter play really good.

like on my retina macbook 13 i do nba 2k14 and fifa 14 on 1080p ultra and get 60fps

here a list of how games perform on intel iris 5100

Intel 5100 games
 
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its does 720p gaming on low pretty good. games that are not too graphically demanding like sports games or some older shooter play really good.

like on my retina macbook 13 i do nba 2k14 and fifa 14 on 1080p ultra and get 60fps

here a list of how games perform on intel iris 5100

Intel 5100 games

Sorry, but is that for Iris, or Iris Pro graphics?
 
SSD is the reason why new iMacs and Mac mini will be released at the same time (soon)

My new theory why new MID 2014 iMacs and minis will arrive soon:

It's because the new mini will get standard SSD storage and so apple is forced to upgrade the iMac at the same, as it would be very strange to have minis with standard SSD and iMacs without.

edit:
Press release will read as follows: "for the first time APPLE is bringing super fast PCIe SSD flash storage as a standard to their consumer desktops."
 
^ Interested to see pricing on above because anything less than 256 is not enough for a mini, at least for me, when comparing up to a terabyte of storage the old way. Still would be super fast though.
 
^ Interested to see pricing on above because anything less than 256 is not enough for a mini, at least for me, when comparing up to a terabyte of storage the old way. Still would be super fast though.

If they release a Mac Mini config with at least 256GB SSD + Iris Pro (discrete GPU would be nice but that most likely won't happen), I'll probably go for it, add an external storage and I've got a nice set up.
 
72 hours from now we could be commenting the new Mini.

If it indeed is gonna be August, no point in going mid-August (lots of people on vacation) or late August (too close to September event).

Examples

Tuesday August 7 2007:

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/08/07Apple-Unveils-New-iMac.html


Thursday August 4 2005: wired Mighty Mouse

and so on

I fired up Mactracker and I struggle to find anything announced in mid or late August in the last few years, always early August.

Now if we go back 10 years, well the iMac G5 was unveiled on the last day of August. In Paris. Let's just concede a lot of things changed since then.
 
72 hours from now we could be commenting the new Mini.

If it indeed is gonna be August, no point in going mid-August (lots of people on vacation) or late August (too close to September event).

Examples

Tuesday August 7 2007:

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/08/07Apple-Unveils-New-iMac.html


Thursday August 4 2005: wired Mighty Mouse

and so on

I fired up Mactracker and I struggle to find anything announced in mid or late August in the last few years, always early August.

Now if we go back 10 years, well the iMac G5 was unveiled on the last day of August. In Paris. Let's just concede a lot of things changed since then.

Yes! And I would like to see a blurry photo from china with the specs of the new mini!!!!
 
Yes and I should add that whether one believes those leaks to be genuine mistakes or Apple controlled leaks (it wouldn't be the first time), in both situations it would make little sense for them to be weeks away from the actual release.

If it is human mistake, the guy curating the bootcamp documentation can't be wrong by weeks. It's not exactly a priority to inform this guy of product releases many weeks ahead. The publication could be premature by days at most, not weeks.

If it's Apple firing up the hype, no sense in letting the fire die out for weeks afterwards. They would pull this close to the actual release.

Same goes for the presumably low level insider source who reached Macminicolo. If the news already spread to low level employees, it must be close.
 
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