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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming

fathergll said:
Absolutely it would eat into low end model Mac Pro sales. You would be foolish not to think it would. Apple literally has no other alternative to the Mac Pro for a solo desktop. Right now it's either a underpowered Mini or a $3,000 workstation class computer with Xeons. The middle ground is an glossy all in one or a laptop. If a theoretical $1500 Mini was available then it's fills the middle ground and would no doubt take the sales of users who are on the fence about the low end Mac Pro.

There's a lot of people that do not need a $3,000 computer to be productive in their given field(design/arts..whatever).
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A $600-$1K Mini with discrete graphics would give Apple a light gaming machine, which it really doesn't have. Properly marketed, it could appeal to Steam users. I have a Mid-2011 Mini with the discrete graphics, and it can just barely run DOTA 2 on medium/low settings. I tried Witcher 2 and gave that up after a few minutes; haven't even bothered with Tomb Raider. A Mini with dGPU co-marketed with Valve as a Steam Machine would be awesome.
 
OMG... it is happening!

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Sadly, that doesn't tell us anything. The store could be down for a number of other mac upgrades and not the mini :(
 
Agent-J said:
A $600-$1K Mini with discrete graphics would give Apple a light gaming machine, which it really doesn't have. Properly marketed, it could appeal to Steam users. I have a Mid-2011 Mini with the discrete graphics, and it can just barely run DOTA 2 on medium/low settings. I tried Witcher 2 and gave that up after a few minutes; haven't even bothered with Tomb Raider. A Mini with dGPU co-marketed with Valve as a Steam Machine would be awesome.
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I totally agree with you, and have made several posts saying similar things. If Apple doesn't "meet the need", I'm in the market for one of the Alienware Alpha console/PC offerings. It seems like there are a lot of people out there coming up with "steam machines", but the Alpha is the first one I've seen that gets it right, at the right price, with the right hardware combo. To push pixels, they had nVidia build a special version of its Maxwell dGPU, and I've seen the low end Alpha push Skyrim at 70-100 FPS, heavily laden with mods and running at 1080p in Ultra settings. FTW.
 
Crosscreek said:
Some people just want to take all the fun away. :)


Apple store is down. They are putting up my I7 Hasswell with GTX970m in it. :)
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Intel Xeon E3 3.1 GHz, 8 GB RAM DDR3 1600 MHz, GTX860M 2 GB GDDR5, 256 GB SSD

999$.

Options:

Xeon E3 3.6 GHz +200$
16 GB RAM DDR3 1600 MHz +200$
512 GB SSD +300$
GTX970M 3 GB GDDR5 +300$

And you end up with 1999$ machine that suits perfectly between iMac and Mac Pro.

Price, performance, youve got everything ;).
 
Crosscreek said:
Well I won't be totally disappointed because I can finally replace my old but great IPad2 with confidence I'm getting something worth the :apple:$ with A8X & 2GB.

I really would like a Macintosh that can satisfy my hidden desires. ;)
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I'll be doing the same with my wife's iPad 2 as well - we're on the same :apple: wavelength it seems.

Really curious to see the retina iMac and hopefully a TBD as well.
 
If we really do get a new mac mini, I'd like to see a m.2 interface along with an optional mechanical drive. That'll free up some space inside the device.

Wireless AC and a haswell quadcore even on the low end would be amazing.
 
iMacFarlane said:
I totally agree with you, and have made several posts saying similar things. If Apple doesn't "meet the need", I'm in the market for one of the Alienware Alpha console/PC offerings. It seems like there are a lot of people out there coming up with "steam machines", but the Alpha is the first one I've seen that gets it right, at the right price, with the right hardware combo. To push pixels, they had nVidia build a special version of its Maxwell dGPU, and I've seen the low end Alpha push Skyrim at 70-100 FPS, heavily laden with mods and running at 1080p in Ultra settings. FTW.
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My son and I built a gaming PC with an R280X and it gets 60FPS to my HDTV on Skyrim maxed out with an ENB. My God, it's awesome. A Mac experience like that would be worth $1000. I'm not sure what can be done with the newer low-power GPUs, but I'll take your word for it on the Alienware. Apple's missing a market; not just missing it, but entirely conceding it. But as we saw with the iPad Mini and now the big iPhones, Apple isn't averse to turning 180 degrees when they see profit in it. So there's reason to hope for the future.
 
philipma1957 said:
yeah it will most likely come out not be good enough. I would have liked a good gpu integrated or discrete.

So we will not have done the 5000 posts and we will fall short of 1 year as I think this was a dec 2013 startup date.
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Not hitting 5000 posts before launch time...that is want is going to anger the Mac Mini God, I'm telling you man!

He will look silently at us and simply but coldly say "HD 4600"
 
iFitzgerald said:
Not hitting 5000 posts before launch time...that is want is going to anger the Mac Mini God, I'm telling you man!

He will look silently at us and simply but coldly say "HD 4600"
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Oh no way man. We MUST hit 5000 before 1PM EST. If we don't there might be other ways to appease the gods. I can sacrifice a ThinkPad?
 
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