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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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Awesome! It will be a great machine, caveats that others cited withstanding. At the end of the day, it has great features and will be a wonderful machine!
I ordered the same thing and i got a message of shipment today too... Guess they are not being made in the US since it shipped from China.
I've been doing some research to determine the best bang for the buck as an upgrade to my current iMac 24", 2.66Ghz Core 2 Duo w/4GB Ram, 640GB HD.
The Middle Tier Mac Mini spec's look like a great starting point. I would upgrade to the 1Tb Fusion drive and 16GB RAM for $1099. That would give me a variety of significant performance upgrades and updates from my current iMac.
The new MacMini would give me the i5 Processing, superior Iris graphics, USB 3 (which I do not have), SD Card slot, Thunderbolt, OS X Yosemite, Upgrade AC Wi-fi. ...and I can use whatever Monitor I want. I currently have a nice 27" ASUS Monitor and a nice wireless Keyboard/Mouse.
I am thinking this machine will smoke my 6-7 year old iMac. (which still works great btw)
Thoughts?
The Middle Tier Mac Mini spec's look like a great starting point. I would upgrade to the 1Tb Fusion drive and 16GB RAM for $1099. That would give me a variety of significant performance upgrades and updates from my current iMac.
The new MacMini would give me the i5 Processing, superior Iris graphics, USB 3 (which I do not have), SD Card slot, Thunderbolt, OS X Yosemite, Upgrade AC Wi-fi. ...and I can use whatever Monitor I want. I currently have a nice 27" ASUS Monitor and a nice wireless Keyboard/Mouse.
I am thinking this machine will smoke my 6-7 year old iMac. (which still works great btw)
Thoughts?
That 2.6 is a good processor. That's the one I would chose for the refresh. I had it in a rMBP and really liked it.
Maybe next near with Broadwell. To bad the people that needed them this year didn't get the quad core option.
I wanted a mini or an iMac retina to replace my dead mbp2011 now I'm ordering an retina MacBook pro, Apple shame.
Mac mini : A total deceive, worst on every way except gpu.
Retina iMac : expensive overloaded and amd only (like to read as it's gets older how many retina iMac burns it's gpu).
iPad mini: only added touch id, same as past year.
The *updated* MacBook Pro Retina at least for me it's the *best* option. I planned either to buy an iMac retina and an iPad Air 2 (as mobile device) instead I'm ordering and rMBP 15 and an 400$ diy zbox sphere (I hope I could Hackintosh-same gpu as the new low end mini).
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I doubt we will see an Broadwell mini, at least another 18 month until Skylake to get new Macs. - at least for me -
It's not bad. It's just not much of an improvement in terms of processing capabilities.
The disappointment is simply in that there's so little difference over the last model that you can see why it only got a 30second footnote mention.
At least people won't complain about paying for 2+year old tech any more...
Instead they can complain about paying more for inferior tech to the 2 year old model.
That's the rub - there is a significant difference in specs. Significant multiprocessing speed drop, and no way to upgrade the ram, and no way to upgrade the HD without voiding the warranty.
If it was the exact same specs as the 2 year old model, just with an improved TB, it would have been better received.
Go for it. The biggest and most worthwhile upgrade for you is going to be to the I/O. Personally I went with the 256 SSD and 8GB ram, but if you have the extra $200 you'll probably get another year or two out of it.
Well it finally came, and I went. Picked up a previous gen server for a steal. Upgrading to 16GB RAM and SSD. This will wipe the floor with the new Mini. What a letdown after this incredibly long wait.
I see that ifixit's tearown of the recently released mini finds that it is no longer easy to get into or modify. But on the bright side, if you do want to get inside you get to add a new tool, the tiniest torx driver in the world, to your collection as soon as somebody makes one for sale.
When is the new Mac mini coming?
When is the new Mac mini coming?
It's an appliance. Just a toaster (and not a combination refrigerator-toaster at that). How often do you take your toaster apart to beef it up?
If the Sears sold three models of toaster: model A that has no timer and only goes up to heat level I, model B that has a timer and only goes up to heat level II for 25% more money, and model C that has a two timers and goes up to heat level III for 50% more money, where the difference between the models is a different dial adjustment (meaning toaster A is capable of heat level III, the dial just doesn't turn that far), then yes I would take my toaster apart to beef it up.
Let's compare it to the refrigerator instead. If the Mac mini had an easy-to-open magnetic door and a light that comes on when I open it, I would not complain about any hassle when I need to clean the fan.
I'm not as certain as I almost once was, but I'm almost as certain as I ever was.
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Maybe that's Apple's big advance? People used to buy technology and be happy with it for a little while until the next update came out. Now we are unhappy with the next update before it comes out, but buy it anyway. What's next? Have the computer shipped directly from the Apple store to Gazelle?
The problem with waiting for Broadwell, or even Skylake if you want quad-core is guessing the design impetus for using just these dual-cores in the new mini's.
The top-end dual-core i7 (i7-4578U) used in now the most expensive Mac Mini tops out at 28wtt TDP. The lowest wattage Skylake quad-core (expected) is going to have a 35 wt TDP, and that will come with a neutered GPU. That's well after broadwell.
If Apple's new design going forward is to limit the Mac Mini to CPU's under ~30wt, then you can basically kiss a quad-core option goodbye anytime soon (meaning, next 2 years). If they're just doing this for socket compatibility reasons then there's perhaps a chance, but at this point I'm not getting my hopes up we'll see a quad-core broadwell, or even Skylake Mac Mini - if they even keep the line that long.
As long as we are doing bad analogies, how about comparing it to something you can use in more ways than a toaster. In the old days, you could open your car's hood and change the spark plugs, oil, filters, coolant and brake fluid, among other things. In the new
Car, all of that stuff is soldered on and you need a special tool, not yet available, to just look at it.
You are right. The days of the quad core are gone unless they change the enclosure and design to accommodate.
That's why this new Mini does not have quad core because the enclosure could not handle it and is why other PC Minis have such a problem with noisy fans.