If there is to be new retina displays of 4K-5K the Mini will require Broadwell to drive the bandwidth.
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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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If there is to be new retina displays of 4K-5K the Mini will require Broadwell to drive the bandwidth.
Yes of course... SOURCES!
I almost certainly believe you, sir!
Are they as good as an italian reseller? Or perhaps you know a Polish fellow where mac mini's are plentiful? Maybe you've talked to an Apple store "genius". Perhaps it is as good as the guy that assured us from his sources that there would be a silent update before the last Apple event?
Claims are a dime a dozen my friend. At least you are "predicting" the most likely scenario that there won't be an update seeing as how many such update predictions have fallen by the wayside.
One think I have to commend you for is adding one more post on our steady march to 5000! Onwards and Upwards my friends!
Anticipated total number of 2014 Mac minis that will ever be connected to an Apple 27" 5K display: seven.
Apple wants to sell displays to go with their computers whether if it's 1 or 1mil.
Just saying.
They could still throw us a bone in Haswell but they will not drive new displays without dedicated GPU.
Return of the Mac
I dove deep into my crack pipe and here is what I found:
Apple is bringing back the Mac. Not a Mac Mini, not a Mac Pro, but a Mac!
Evidence:
* The rainbow Apple logo is deeply associated with the Macintosh, and not with any of the recent iToys.
* The rainbow logo indicates a timescale much longer than the missing updates of the Mac Mini or the thunderbolt display.
* Using "way too long" to describe an update of an existing product is too much of an admission that they have been lazy about refreshing. But to resurrect a product not currently in the lineup it's perfect!
Okay, I will go take my pills to calm down now...
I dove deep into my crack pipe and here is what I found:
Apple is bringing back the Mac. Not a Mac Mini, not a Mac Pro, but a Mac!
Evidence:
* The rainbow Apple logo is deeply associated with the Macintosh, and not with any of the recent iToys.
* The rainbow logo indicates a timescale much longer than the missing updates of the Mac Mini or the thunderbolt display.
* Using "way too long" to describe an update of an existing product is too much of an admission that they have been lazy about refreshing. But to resurrect a product not currently in the lineup it's perfect!
Okay, I will go take my pills to calm down now...
I seen tweet from the Las Vegas Mac Mini server farm and they seem optimistic.
Since they buy so many they may know something is coming and they hardly ever tweet.
I don't know how much can be read into that.
Since they buy so many they may know something is coming and they hardly ever tweet.
I don't know how much can be read into that.
Maybe they have heard nothing, and interpret that as the Mini is not being discontinued?
There are rumours on an xMac (a nMacPro with i7/x99/nVidia internals Haswell-E/ddr4) besides that has some sense Apple to ditch current mini and split it into two or three more specialized products (Mac Nano, Mac or xMac, and Apple NAS).
I don't give credit to this 5K retina iMac 27, but an 4K iMac 27 fit perfectly with current iMac design (thermals), while an 5K device will require dual GPU at least to have an descent performance; also an Broadwell/Haswell Mac can drive an 4K panel, existing Thunderbolt 2 can provide single cable connection, Thunderbolt 3 and display port 1.3 are months away the market, so I give a little chance to this 5K dreams.
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Today's confirmation of the 10/16 event has me hopeful. Yeah, some folks are probably spot on as far as internals and soldered ram etc., but I am excited again with the confirmation.
My 2010 iMac is over four years old now, grateful she's held up but it's time to switch Macs.
Today's confirmation of the 10/16 event has me hopeful. Yeah, some folks are probably spot on as far as internals and soldered ram etc., but I am excited again with the confirmation.
My 2010 iMac is over four years old now, grateful she's held up but it's time to switch Macs.
I have and was pretty sure it was a gigabyte since the last time I built one of them it was a gigabyte. but that was a few years ago.
I was not able to get my t-bolt drives to work well back in 2012 so I just got a quad 2012 mini.
Hmmmm, the New Mac Pro with different internals actually makes some sense. In colors too, I HOPE! It would have PCIe SSD's! BooYah! I would buy it in a heart beat!
Oh, solved the 5K rumours, the issue is that along the 4k iMac 27 and the 4K cinema display, Apple will sell some 5k monitor from 3th party source (sharp?) but only Mac Pro compatible, the original rumour was misunderstood but wasn't about am iMac but Apple working to offer an 5k display at the Apple store to counterpart dell's 5k new monitor, and this new 5k display will cost more than 3000$....
Then everything comes sense now.
When are there not?
The xMac has been asked for so long it's basically a punchline at this point.Apple is not afraid of cannibalizing some of its product lines to an extent, but an xMac - at least one with the main reason people want one, the ability to upgrade the GPU - would cut into the Pro market so significantly I just can't see it, or at least have it priced anywhere near reasonable.
You want one, I want one, thousands of PC users looking to switch to the Mac want one - but I can't see how it would fit into Apple's product lineup at all without severely undercutting some models.
At least we'll know. If it's as upgradable as the current one, it's a day one purchase for me. If it's soldered it's time to move on and buy a windows PC.
That's where I'm at. I prefer to get a new, more powerful mini, use it only for OSX and leave Windows 8.1 on the 2012 quad. An alternative of almost equal cost is to get an HP EliteDesk 800 for Windows and leave OSX on the mini.
The HP alternative gets me a computer that is way more powerful and flexible than a mini. As Apple moves into more iToys and glued-together, fugly Ive machines that sort of points me back to the Windows camp.
I still don't see the logic for thinking a nMM would have soldered ram. On a laptop, it reduces the chance of unseating due to movement, and massively reduces space requirements, and the 21" iMac is effectively the Apple dumb terminal - for institutional buyers who refresh the entire machine every 1-2 years but will never allocate budget to paying an IT person to order ram, take a machine offline, open it up, fit new ram, make sure it all works ok etc.
While the iMac / Mini / Laptops share components, they don't AFAIK share actual motherboards - open a laptop or an iMac and the board is custom shaped to fit around all sorts of components, not a straight line to be found.
What possible reason (excluding "because Apple are evil, bwahahaha") would there be to have multiple SKUs in motherboard manufacturing, when they can just make a single motherboard and then have the ram on a card, and all the BTO/CTO options it brings?
Theres no problem to be solved for which soldered ram is the answer when it comes to the mini.
yeah no reason to do it other then Apple thinking it will earn more money for them.
I would like them to do whatever they want with a new mini don't care anymore.
But a nMP with a soldered in pcie ssd and 1 gpu seems like the perfect piece of gear for me.
And that's very possibly exactly the course that Apple will take, in order to reduce the size of the mini so they can tell you that it's NOW SMALLER THAN EVER!
iMacs get skinnier with every iteration for no practical reason; Airs are whittled down to the point where their lack of substance actually becomes a disadvantage (ie it simply doesn't have enough weight to 'anchor' it to your lap).
Ironically the one Apple product line where compactness is actually of benefit, or at least is valued by a significant number of users, has recently grown by 0.7 or more diagonal inches...