I would make of it that the salesman thinks... but does not in any way know... that there is no refresh coming.
If sales staff knew future plans then there would be LOTS more leaks. They just don't.
Apple aren't that dumb.
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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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I would make of it that the salesman thinks... but does not in any way know... that there is no refresh coming.
If sales staff knew future plans then there would be LOTS more leaks. They just don't.
Apple aren't that dumb.
That would be great, but otherwise I would settle for "Almost one more thing..."
In Febtober. Definitely by next Febtober.
I'm leaning heavily towards an Alienware Alpha. Lots of positive press, good benchmarks, decent price, ridiculously small footprint. If the Mini doesn't impress or makes another no-show, the Alpha's the strongest blip on the RADAR.
Like the other poster said, Apple does not let it's sales employees know about future tech, even if it's days away. Also, the moniker "genius" is just a moniker.... these folks are not geniuses.
Problem is Windows 8 is a disaster. I have it on my laptop. So, if they won't sell it with Windows 7, I advise you "no sale".
I like that idea. However, i would rather design similar to Mac Pro.
Xeon E3 3.1 GHz, 4 GB DDR3, 128 GB SSD, GTX860M 2 GB GDDR5(or whatever would Apple call it) for 799$ with options of configuring this even better.
What's the point of asking for a server CPU with not enough RAM, not enough storage, a great GPU at an impossible price?
Why impossible? Sum of prices of this parts and manufacturing cost on that design is around 400$. CPU 190$, 4 GB - 40$, GPU - 75$, SSD - 60$. Yes, Xeon E3 CPUs are that cheap. The most expensive CPU without GPU is 3.6 GHz model with HT and costs... 328$.
Knowing Apple's profit margins, the end price would be double that.
Its obviously - the base model.
999$ setup would include 3.1 GHz Xeon E3, Nvidia Maxwell GM107 with 2 GB GDDR5, 256 GB SSD and 8 GB. So really, it doesnt matter what price tag we speak, the idea is more important here.
I'd feel better about the prospects for an update if there were a part leak. Maybe the new mini is so thin and small that no one has noticed it.
I wouldn't worry just yet. Apple could announce a Mini on Thursday and have it ship in a few months time (a la new Mac Pro.)
People have just stopped buying them?
Can't imagine sales are very high at this point.
And if they did BOTH of the last two options?
I know I'd probably buy one of each, and it'll cater for both camps.
There is no way any future Mac mini is going to have a discrete GPU. The market won't bear the price difference when integrated GPUs are good enough for 99% of possible buyers. Anyone who really needs a discrete GPU should be looking at a Mac Pro, not a Mac mini.
If I were a betting man id say there 0% chance were gonna see a new mini....there has been nothing! not a leak,pic of some type,nothing in refurb store...zip! Not gonna happen...
People are certainly buying the current new ones. My local MicroCenter runs out of the i5s often.
We may indeed not see a new mini, but we may see something that may make a lot of people here happy. I think it was mentioned by some previous users but, rainbow colours and the tag line "its been too long" could only refer to somthing that is not in Apple's current line-up (since if it was a reference ot anything existing, i.e. Mac Mini, Cinema Display etc, it would be tantamount to admitting they've not been on the ball).
It would need to be something far enough in the past to be nostalgic, and in order for it to be important enough to warrant having the event be centered around it it will not be somthing trivial (a periferal or somthing).
My hope therefore is that we see the return of the Mac. Its the missing link. Mac Pro is for pro users only (or rich bastards), iMac is an all-in-one, defo not for everybody, and uses mostly laptop components, Mac Mini is great but its not as robust a desktop solution as many pro-sumers and/or enthusiasts would like it to be.
Thus enter the Mac. Which could easily be based on the nMP case but with consumer grade internals. Normal chipset, normal CPU (Broadwell, annouced now, available as soon as BW is), descrete GPU (with high end option for dual GPU) etc...
Mac Mini may not be mentioned at all, but I don't think its dead. It fullfils a nice niche for apple as a combo entrylevel-mac/HTPC-mac/Mac-Server. Sure the new low-end iMac can take the entrylevel option away, but AppleTV is no HTPC and the iMac is obviously not a good server (neither is the MacPro as its too overengineered for that purpose).
I think the Mac Mini is simply delayed as they opted to skip Haswell (due to great sales I assume and reallocating resource to the "Mac" development) and it is simply waiting for broadwell.
My 2c.
Minis had discrete GPUs in the past and they sold well. Apple could make low end models with integrated graphics and a high end model with discrete graphics just like LachlanH suggested.
A Mac Pro is a PROfessional workstation and quite the overkill (specs and price) for most of people.
We may indeed not see a new mini, but we may see something that may make a lot of people here happy. I think it was mentioned by some previous users but, rainbow colours and the tag line "its been too long" could only refer to somthing that is not in Apple's current line-up (since if it was a reference ot anything existing, i.e. Mac Mini, Cinema Display etc, it would be tantamount to admitting they've not been on the ball).
It would need to be something far enough in the past to be nostalgic, and in order for it to be important enough to warrant having the event be centered around it it will not be somthing trivial (a periferal or somthing).
My hope therefore is that we see the return of the Mac. Its the missing link. Mac Pro is for pro users only (or rich bastards), iMac is an all-in-one, defo not for everybody, and uses mostly laptop components, Mac Mini is great but its not as robust a desktop solution as many pro-sumers and/or enthusiasts would like it to be.
Thus enter the Mac. Which could easily be based on the nMP case but with consumer grade internals. Normal chipset, normal CPU (Broadwell, annouced now, available as soon as BW is), descrete GPU (with high end option for dual GPU) etc...
Mac Mini may not be mentioned at all, but I don't think its dead. It fullfils a nice niche for apple as a combo entrylevel-mac/HTPC-mac/Mac-Server. Sure the new low-end iMac can take the entrylevel option away, but AppleTV is no HTPC and the iMac is obviously not a good server (neither is the MacPro as its too overengineered for that purpose).
I think the Mac Mini is simply delayed as they opted to skip Haswell (due to great sales I assume and reallocating resource to the "Mac" development) and it is simply waiting for broadwell.
My 2c.
I agree with your 2c.
If Apple rebrands the Mini into the Macintosh and bolsters the internals a bit, great. The colors angle, sure, I can see that too. Given the red Mac pro and various colored iPhones, iPads; colorful Macs make sense. Tomorrow (!) does seem to point in being a Mac event and should the Mini be replaced by the Macintosh (or xMac), I'm okay with that.