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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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Or every year or so, or a couple or three times a year, going on evidence of the past decade or so. The only certainty is that the new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming
Did some poking around on Intel's site to see what the offerings might be and what I found was a shock. The Mac mini and some of the MacBook line guts are based on Intel's NUC extreme small form factor hardware. If this is truly the case than we will not see a quad core again. All NUC systems have Dual-core only. I deduced this by comparing specs. with Mac mini's. There is one difference, Thunderbolt. The high end NUCs are a pretty close match up for the mini and some of the MacBook like. I hope beyond hope that I am wrong because this would indicate that the accounts are having way to much say in the business.
Skull Canyon is a quad core NUC. We'll know more around GDC time, which is said to be right around the Apple event for iPad Air updates etc.
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't see any mention of it in the documents on Intel's site, but it's welcome news. Let's hope that Apple has gotten an exclusive on it, or at least some version of it.
It is coming...
I bought a 2014 Refurb today, which should guaranty a new Mini in the near future.
I bought a 2014 Refurb today, which should guaranty a new Mini in the near future.
Same exact thing here!It is coming...
I bought a 2014 Refurb today, which should guaranty a new Mini in the near future.
It is coming...
I bought a 2014 Refurb today, which should guaranty a new Mini in the near future.
Since this thread was started, I bought a 2012 refurb before the 2014s were announced. Yet it still took 8 more months before the 2014s appeared. To celebrate the new 2014's, I bought an additional 2012 refurb.
Was CES news. http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/20...core-mini-pc-with-iris-pro-and-thunderbolt-3/ The more official launch/more info is down to happen around GDC so in line with March 15ish Apple event.
Looking forward to see what this is all about. Apple will never do this do to the Iris Pro iMacs would take a hit.
If the mini uprevs it's board and chip set, is the next step up the big one, or an an incremental one (IIRC, every other step up is major, with minors in between??)
edit: never mind. Researched on line. It's currently Haswell. Skylake is a big jump, but that assumes they skip Broadwell. Would Apple actually keep with Broadwell for the mini, and not go to Skylake?
edit: never mind. Researched on line. It's currently Haswell. Skylake is a big jump, but that assumes they skip Broadwell. Would Apple actually keep with Broadwell for the mini, and not go to Skylake?
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I must confess it is about two years now that I read this topic solely for fun.
http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac
Refurb items seem to sell v. quickly. (Is there a pattern for when in day/week?)
Refurb items seem to sell v. quickly. (Is there a pattern for when in day/week?)
There have been a lot of 2014 minis on there recently (and I think I got the last 2012 2.6 i7 they listed at the end of November). Stuff on there seems to sell pretty fast.
Yeah I don't know if I can justify a 2014 mini I feel like it's a rubbish spec for the money.
Mind you so is a lot (not all) of Apple equipment.
I agree about the 2014 mini - I waited years for that to come out intending to buying on day one - and completely lost interest in the category due to that spec, and other soldered limitations -soldered ram..
Don't get too excited about that. Two weeks ago BTO was 2 weeks shipping, now its back 4-5 days...but then again, the new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming!
I only see 6-8 days in US for Mini (the higher specced one, that starts at 999$)