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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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What year? What hemisphere?
Make the right choice and the answer is "yes" but it probably won't be (Northern) Summer 2015.
What year? What hemisphere?
Make the right choice and the answer is "yes" but it probably won't be (Northern) Summer 2015.
Thanks for you reply
Yeah, I think we won't see any "new" Mac minis before 2016, maybe even until 2017 ...
Looks like Acer beat Apple to the Airport Design.http://www.cnet.com/uk/products/acer-revo-one/
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Certainly comparable to the Mac Mini. Available in a range of specs, with a similar price range. Can run 4K @ 60 Hz. Comes with a keyboard and mouse. Smaller footprint than than the current Mini, though taller.
Fine for folks who don't want OS X. For those who do
The new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming.
It would be great if the Revo One took off as a popular product. Maybe there will end up being quad-core i7s with 16GB of RAM and a dGPU. With an SSD card inserted it really does look like a toaster made for miniature slices of bread.
Competition is always good, let's hope it gets some traction.
Agreed and all the PC manufacturers have seen the value in developing them.
Competition is good.
Apple was way ahead of the curve but took a step backwards.
Sounds like some really good things coming in Mini Skylake PCs and hopefully Apple take note.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2929...gs-intels-skylake-cpu-to-the-living-room.html
Some other information on this system. I don't really care for the case design and it's rather large for a Mini PC design but it will pack a punch and be quite at the same time. Be interesting to see some benchmarks when available.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9298/corsair-unleashes-the-bulldog-diy-4k-gaming-pc
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2929...gs-intels-skylake-cpu-to-the-living-room.html
Some other information on this system. I don't really care for the case design and it's rather large for a Mini PC design but it will pack a punch and be quite at the same time. Be interesting to see some benchmarks when available.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9298/corsair-unleashes-the-bulldog-diy-4k-gaming-pc
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Not a lot of action in this Mac Mini zone of the MacRumors of late. It seems all the excitement of late has been with the WATCH, and El Captain and other stuff which has seen activity recently. Still folks, it is not going to be a Mac Nano. It is likely to be proper OS X using computer, with the features of a desktop, not a laptop. Sooner or later….
The new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming.
The new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming.
The new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming…..
When it does, it will almost certainly be summer (or thereabouts) somewhere on this planet we share.
The new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming…….
However, whenever you buy a new Mac Mini, the new Mac Mini is almost certain to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
I suggest, if you need a new Mac Mini now, buy the Mac Mini you need. It will almost certainly last the distance.
My early 2009 base model (bought before the late 2009 model came) can run the latest OS X, albeit without some of the latest features, which I neither need nor desire. For that reason I am still using Mountain Lion, which is still supported. I reckon what I have will serve my needs for another couple or three years, or maybe more.
An acquaintance is still using a G4 MacBook that is more than a dozen years old. Like me with my Mini, it is his only computer.
Thanks for you reply
Yeah, I think we won't see any "new" Mac minis before 2016, maybe even until 2017 ...
Seriously?
Seriously. Hey, the Buyer's Guide on this site is a pretty decent predictor of these things.
How so?
Since it first arrived in January 2005 there have been 12 updates, with the time between each being a couple of months to a couple of years. In my observation the buyer's guide has speculated plenty, but actually predicted very little other than suggesting that the new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming.
It shows that, other than the anomalous late 2009 update, refreshes of the Mini line in the last decade or so have occurred at fairly regular intervals of a little over a year (other than the most recent update, which took more than two years). This means, I believe, that Apple likes to schedule their Mini releases in a particular manner; putting out another Mini before 2016 would disrupt that schedule. And, although I personally have issues with the 2014 designs, I have to suppose that the folks at Apple chose their design for a reason; if they believe they chose correctly, I don't see why they would want to make any abrupt changes to the lineup.
The Mac Mini has been around for just a decade and seven months.
After its release on 11 January 2005 (and I bought one), it was updated an anomalous twice that year. The following year saw another anomalous two "refreshes", then there was just one in 2007 just over a year later.
It was an anomalous near 20 months before the first 2009 update (which I bought, and am still using) then an anomalous just over 7 months before the next update in the same year. The next couple of updates were indeed a year and a bit apart, then there was the the anomalous 2 year break before the 2014 Mac Mini.
So, three refreshes just over a year apart and eight anomalous refreshes ranging from a couple of months to a couple of years apart…… So, the anomalies have it.
The new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming….. sometime.
When it does, it will almost certainly be summer or thereabouts somewhere. It may, or may not be on Tuesday.
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If you ignore the late 2009 update, all the Mac Mini updates since 2007 have been occurring at intervals of roughly a year and a half. (The late 2009 update split one of these intervals in half, the 2014 update skipped one interval). The next interval should, therefore, be early in 2016, if it isn't skipped.
That you change your timeframe and introduce the word "if" to cover the anomalies, which exceed your suggested norm by nearly three to one, suggests that you know no more about future refreshes than any of us who have posted in this Mighty Thread of speculation about about the Mac Mini.
Even the venerable GabrielR, bless her cotton sox, didn't have a clue.
However we remain reasonably sure that the new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming.
Man that just made me feel old. I was a freshman in college when I got my first Mini, the 1.4ghz G4. Good times. Can't believe that was a decade ago...
Hey, kid, be happy -- I still have fond memories of my first Apple ][+ (with the 16K expansion card, providing a whopping 64 K of RAM!).
Well, the iPod got a bit of love.
Could it be that, before too long, the new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming?
Could it be that, before too long, the new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming?
You sure like that thread title
What's not to like…..? It's classic, and timeless!
I would like to see a 2015 mini that had worthwhile features. I don't expect it to happen.