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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming

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MrGuder

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Oh, that's what I thought. :(

I just thought that this GabrieleR person who works at Apple knew about some event that we didn't. :rolleyes:

I seriously need to decide something before XP expires, I think before month ends I will need to decide something, either current mini or a Dell.
 
squirrrl

squirrrl

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MrGuder said:
Oh, that's what I thought. :(

I just thought that this GabrieleR person who works at Apple knew about some event that we didn't. :rolleyes:

I seriously need to decide something before XP expires, I think before month ends I will need to decide something, either current mini or a Dell.
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No no.... GabrieleR was the original poster of this entire thread back on Dec 7th. If we've learned anything, it's that GabrieleR along with a host of other people on this site don't know anything about when things will be released. Only apple employees do, and they'd be fired it they told. That said, there are sometimes clues when things will get released such as mentions in OS codes, etc., but basically, if someone says "i can assure you it's coming out next Tuesday" with no decent explanation, it's usually BS. I've also come to realize that a lot of these really terrible predictions come from Europeans.
 
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MrGuder

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Ahh..I didn't even notice that was the person who started this thread. I just thought that was a recent post. I don't know if I should laugh or cry. I was in the Apple store yesterday to get a new battery in my iphone 5 installed and while waiting (1.5 hrs) I literally spent the whole time playing with the iMac both the small screen and the larger one...trying out the different hardrives, one had a standard HD and one had the Fusion. I could tell a huge difference in speed. I was trying to find one with an SSD and couldn't. Then I tried the mac mini, it had a fusion and I thought it was fast and loaded nicely it was on a 27" thunderbolt display. I then asked one of the reps when the new one is due, he said, this is the new one. I smiled and said no, the 2014...I could tell this was going no where so I didn't push it. That time spent waiting for my new battery to be installed was well worth my time as I got a great idea using the Mac (which I am still new to using) I had a hard time with the magic mouse and the track pad thing but picked up quickly. I think I still like my regular logitech bluetooth mouse. I even tried the iPad mini w/ Retina and I want one of those too.
 
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Schnort

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MrGuder said:
I seriously need to decide something before XP expires, I think before month ends I will need to decide something, either current mini or a Dell.
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XP expiring really shouldn't be driving you to do anything in the short term.

All it means is that there won't be any more updates for XP. Your machine won't stop working, or suddenly become infested with viruses, or whatever.
 
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Crosscreek

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Schnort said:
And eventually that will be an issue. It won't suddenly become an issue on April 1 at 12:01 am.
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I glad your sure because I think there just waiting to release all hell on all those businesses that haven't upgraded. The virus software makers will never keep up.
That only my opinion though. Well see. Maybe nothing will happen. :)
 
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aajeevlin

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MrGuder said:
I then asked one of the reps when the new one is due, he said, this is the new one. I smiled and said no, the 2014...I could tell this was going no where so I didn't push it.
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Haha, classic answer from these well "trained" apply employees.
 
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fredr500

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dalupus said:
don't the part numbers and stuff start showing up like a week before the release happens?

Seems like there is always some front page rumor about some new part numbers.

I can't ever recall a refresh where we hadn't already know something was being refreshed at least a few day earlier.
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I'm trying to remember last year's iMac refresh. I think it was a complete surprise, no new part numbers begin released early.

Does anyone remember?
 
OneMike

OneMike

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GabrieleR said:
Hi,

i work in an Apple Reseller and like many of you i'm waiting for the mini 2013 refresh.

From monday the two major Apple suppliers in Italy are suddenly and completely out of stock of minis. I know that this happen from time to time, but the timing is no coincidence.

Trust me, a new mini is coming next week, or at least we have solid evidence to believe it.
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I got my current mini in Aug of 2013. I remember being hesitant at the time thinking a new release was imminent. Glad I went ahead and got it.

Still a great machine.
 
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dudedude

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I think if there is nothing tomorrow and no news (or new rumors pointing to a release) this week, I'm going to go ahead and pull the trigger. Now to pine over getting an i5 or an i7.
 
squirrrl

squirrrl

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talmy said:
Easy decision -- if you can utilize the two extra cores (usually video processing or heavy server use like multiple VMs) then get the i7. Otherwise get the i5.
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So i'm looking to go to the mac mini from my excruciatingly slow dell with windows xp. I use it for work and much of the work I do involves data that requires a lot of calculations and some high resolution microscopy images.

Right now I've got a my ancient dell with a Pentium III Xeon processor (2.76ghz) and 4GB of RAM.

Clearly I'll see a noticeable difference with either the i5 or i7, but does it matter which? Also, should I get 8 or 16GB of RAM? I often have 3 or 4 programs that I'm using at once to analyze and process my data.
 
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themeerkat

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squirrrl said:
Clearly I'll see a noticeable difference with either the i5 or i7, but does it matter which? Also, should I get 8 or 16GB of RAM? I often have 3 or 4 programs that I'm using at once to analyze and process my data.
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The difference between a Pentium III and even an i3 will completely blow your mind. It shouldn't matter too much in your case whether you go for an i5 or an i7, though if whatever you're using for data processing knows how to make use of multiple cores, you might want to go for an i7.

re: RAM, it depends on if your work is heavily memory bound (e.g. loading huge data tables into memory): If it is, go for 16GB, otherwise 8GB is more than sufficient.

Also, definitely add an SSD if you can. If you're deciding whether to spend $200 on an i5->i7 bump or to go from an HDD to an SSD, definitely go for the latter. The difference is immense.
 
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cypriot

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squirrrl said:
So i'm looking to go to the mac mini from my excruciatingly slow dell with windows xp. I use it for work and much of the work I do involves data that requires a lot of calculations and some high resolution microscopy images.



Right now I've got a my ancient dell with a Pentium III Xeon processor (2.76ghz) and 4GB of RAM.



Clearly I'll see a noticeable difference with either the i5 or i7, but does it matter which? Also, should I get 8 or 16GB of RAM? I often have 3 or 4 programs that I'm using at once to analyze and process my data.
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It sounds you will be amazed with either one but more power means longer life. I would choose i7 and max out RAM if i could.
 
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squirrrl

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themeerkat said:
The difference between a Pentium III and even an i3 will completely blow your mind. It shouldn't matter too much in your case whether you go for an i5 or an i7, though if whatever you're using for data processing knows how to make use of multiple cores, you might want to go for an i7.

re: RAM, it depends on if your work is heavily memory bound (e.g. loading huge data tables into memory): If it is, go for 16GB, otherwise 8GB is more than sufficient.

Also, definitely add an SSD if you can. If you're deciding whether to spend $200 on an i5->i7 bump or to go from an HDD to an SSD, definitely go for the latter. The difference is immense.
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Yes.. just looked this up so I'll probably get an i7: "FlowJo for Mac has a capability of using multiple processors (as many as you have, including 8-core macpro configurations) - so parallel processing is another quick gain in performance."

I'm not too worried about graphics so maybe I'll go ahead and just get the current mac mini if the new one doesn't arrive in the next month since the program above. It only uses 2D acceleration but it also said: "PCI-E cards tend to be faster than AGP cards, which are faster than PCI cards. if you've got one with 64MB RAM, it's probably sufficient"

I'm not very techie so I'm not sure which one the mac mini has.

I'll definitely be going with the 256GB SSD drive.
 
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