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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming

I am upgrading the Labor daybargain Lenovo m700. First upgrade will be 2 sticks of 16gb ram on the b150 mobo I can use 2 sticks of 16gb ram. cost at amazon 127. This will bring my gear's price from 300 to 427. So for 427 you get 32gb ram a pentium g4400t cpu and a 128 gb samsung ssd with windows 10. I can add a m2 ssd from crucial a 525gb for 150. Which would give me a 2 ssd unit with 32 gb ram for 575.00 Not so sure about cpu. I know it can be upgraded but I do not need it. I have a mining pc with an i5 6500t in it I can do a simple swap if I want to in the future.
I then need to decide if I want to downgrade to windows 7 Stay with windows 10 or load in a linux booter.
 
Man I was joking about no new macs at all this year. Didn't expect that to actually happen!
 
JoeG4 said:
Man I was joking about no new macs at all this year. Didn't expect that to actually happen!
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Nope, no new Macs this year. Remember what we got the last time Apple updated the mini. I think Apple misunderstood the low power initiative. I'm sure Apple will update the mini again someday. But, I think Apple is waiting for the rerelease of the 80386sx.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
When did they actually announce a new Mac mini? I thought they just pushed them out on the quiet these days.
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Not sure, but I think this time it'll be different than previous (press release) as there should be multiple Macs to introduce. Maybe the new Mac mini will be just a slide but if you're talking new Macs, why wouldn't you mention it?
 
So I got pushed into having to get a Mac of some kind, could not wait for the refresh. My 2010 MacBook died last weekend, the device I was relying on after my iMac died last spring. So I ordered a 2014 refurb Mac Mini 2.8, 8 gb RAM, 1 TB fusion. It arrived at home in Canada from California in two days. Took 2.5 hours to set it up, connect to iCloud, upgrade to Sierra, download and install Office 365, install a few other essential apps and copy key folders of files from the old hard drive.

1. Reminds me why I like Apple gear and the ecosystem. Slick. Back up and running.
2. This is my first Mini, and I like it. Ample fast for my work. Having all the ports up front is very handy. Drives my 27 high res monitor fine. The USB 3 speeds are pleasant.

So I should be good to go while Apple comes out with whatever it is going to come out with, eventually.
 
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Easttime said:
So I got pushed into having to get a Mac of some kind, could not wait for the refresh. My 2010 MacBook died last weekend, the device I was relying on after my iMac died last spring. So I ordered a 2014 refurb Mac Mini 2.8, 8 gb RAM, 1 TB fusion. It arrived at home in Canada from California in two days. Took 2.5 hours to set it up, connect to iCloud, upgrade to Sierra, download and install Office 365, install a few other essential apps and copy key folders of files from the old hard drive.

1. Reminds me why I like Apple gear and the ecosystem. Slick. Back up and running.
2. This is my first Mini, and I like it. Ample fast for my work. Having all the ports up front is very handy. Drives my 27 high res monitor fine. The USB 3 speeds are pleasant.

So I should be good to go while Apple comes out with whatever it is going to come out with, eventually.
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That is a nice mini. I'm still hoping the next one will be even better, before my 2011 MacBook Pro dies. It's almost certainly coming.
 
DesertSurfer said:
That is a nice mini. I'm still hoping the next one will be even better, before my 2011 MacBook Pro dies. It's almost certainly coming.
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As they announce the arrival of the octocore mini, everyone gets excited. Rounds of applause. Until everyone drops to their knees in sorrow upon the revelation that it's based upon the totally unexpected 80286. On the plus side, they give us four 80287 math co-processors, and a dedicated graphics chip. Further inspection reveals that it's a CGA graphics chip.

Tim takes the stage to calm the booing. And finally screams, what's your problem, we gave you everything you asked for. 8 cores, dedicated graphics, and all you can do is cry!!!!????? Tim says, I give up, drops the mic on the floor, storms out the door, and is never heard from again.

After news of Tim's departure hits Wall Street, Apple's stock sees a record setting surge.

The Apple campus is deathly silent as all seems lost the next day. Finally the shy mailroom boy raises his hand and says, I have an idea. Stunned eyes turn to the boy, and he reveals the most shocking plan ever.

Let's build a PC with a quad-core Kaby Lake i7 CPU, 4 expansion slots, user replaceable drives, 8 gigs of user upgradable RAM, and a dedicated pci-e graphics card.

Still shocked, a voice says how can we do that. The boy pulls out a HP main board, and says they have millions of these down the street. Everybody grab a case and a screwdriver.
 
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I will return to Windows only when there are no other alternatives, in practice this means never as if that really was the only choice I would go solely with iOS devices.
 
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easttime wrote:
"Having all the ports up front is very handy."

What Mini in the world has its ports "up front"?
Take a picture and post it, so we can see... ;)
 
DesertSurfer said:
I wonder if the new Mac mini (which is almost certainly coming) will have a built-in microphone? macOS Sierra includes Siri, but with a currently-existing mini and third-party monitor you couldn't use this basic feature of the new OS without adding an external microphone.
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I picked up a USB Logitech webcam/microphone when I got my first Mini recently and did some side by side comparisons with the iSight on the old MacBook. Much better image but couldn't directly compare the mics. An advantage of the Mini is peripheral flexibility.
 
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