The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming

[sunapple]

They've been working on that Mini for so long, I'm 99% it's going to be a perfectly seemless sphere with built in battery and no ports (except one lightning port for charging) or buttons whatsoever.

Just place it on your desk* and the Apple Cinema Display** (***) will automagically recognize it so you can take advantage of the powerful Core M chips and integrated graphics processor.

* Damage from falling off your desk not covered. Apple Magnetic Floating Desk Adapter Dock sold separately for only 159$
** Apple Cinema Display sold separately for only 1899$
(*** Mac Core M Sphere does not work with monitor from 3rd party manufacturers)

 

[Micky Do]

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.

On one hand, an interesting question. On the other, I don't give a hoot about Siri. It is enough to know that the new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming……

And it will most certainly come without peripherals; most likely add your own mic if you seek a meaningful relationship with Siri.

 

[flyinmac]

Scalpel please... bad enough to have Siri pop up accidentally on the iPhone. Don't need her on the Mac. If I get desperate for her wit, I can come up with my own short quips about being unable to do something.

 

[Miat]

If Siri tries to invade any Mac of mine, I will learn Unix & BSD from scratch just to hunt it down and kill it with fire.

If Apple want to offer it in the desktop system, fine, as long as they give me a DO NOT INSTALL THIS ANNOYING PIECE OF TEKNO-DRECK option during the install process.

 

[sunapple]

If Siri tries to invade any Mac of mine, I will learn Unix & BSD from scratch just to hunt it down and kill it with fire.

If Apple want to offer it in the desktop system, fine, as long as they give me a DO NOT INSTALL THIS ANNOYING PIECE OF TEKNO-DRECK option during the install process.

You can just turn it off in settings.

 

[Crosscreek]

I talk dirty to her and call her a dirty girl

 

[sublunar]

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.

Provided the drivers continue to work. The Windows 10 anniversary update recently killed millions of web cams because of the removal of the h264 codec. You'd expect that with a limited range of hardware to support Apple would provide a better service.

 

[philipma1957]

I am liking my Lenovo M700 tiny! I got it for 300 on a labor day sale. 1 screw to open the lid 1 screw to pull the ssd to get to the ram. it uses 2 16gb sticks of ram. got that on amazon. so I am running windows 10 with a 128gb samsung ssd oem the pentium g4400t with 510 graphics. and the 32gb ram. snappy good graphics for netflix I watched the 10 episodes of Narcos. Lastly since it has windows 10 and the edge browser microsoft is paying to browse with the edge browser. Not much,but watching netflix counts as browsing.

 

[dogslobber]

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And it will most certainly come without peripherals; most likely add your own mic if you seek a meaningful relationship with Siri.

The mic issue is interesting in that the Mac Pro doesn't have a built in mic either, although I could be wrong. You might get Apple updating their wireless keyboard to have a built in mic and fingerprint thing for Apple Pay support. It makes sense for apple to want to push such tech on all their popular products, including the 2016 Mini refresh.

 

[navaira]

I talk dirty to her and call her a dirty girl

"I'm sorry, but Dainty Hurl is not in your contact list. Here are the Bing search results..."

 

[Jedi]

Hi Guy`s ,

Reality ? = Please post , thanks !!

Is there an honest consensus that a new 2016 Mac Mini might be really happening ?

I have a 2010 MM and that is my go to computer for both research and enjoyment as well as doing eLearnings at home and keep track of day to day activities for both work and private life.

So it is extremely important that I have a solid foundation if which to do so , my 2010 MM

If there is a very slim to no way that a 2016 Mac Mini is going to be released , would you please state your views , again many thanks.

Also , would the savings of $200 for the i5 instead of the i7 work , or would the i7 be the most practical way to go ? Other specs I have in mind would be 16 Gig`s + 256 SSD.

I do have a 1st Gen. MacBook Pro Retina , however the MM is still my go to / at home from of computing , the MBP/r is mainly an on-the-go type of tool.

Take care , guy`s

Gary 

 

[dogslobber]

Hi Guy`s ,

Reality ? = Please post , thanks !!

Is there an honest consensus that a new 2016 Mac Mini might be really happening ?

I have a 2010 MM and that is my go to computer for both research and enjoyment as well as doing eLearnings at home and keep track of day to day activities for both work and private life.

So it is extremely important that I have a solid foundation if which to do so , my 2010 MM

If there is a very slim to no way that a 2016 Mac Mini is going to be released , would you please state your views , again many thanks.

Also , would the savings of $200 for the i5 instead of the i7 work , or would the i7 be the most practical way to go ? Other specs I have in mind would be 16 Gig`s + 256 SSD.

I do have a 1st Gen. MacBook Pro Retina , however the MM is still my go to / at home from of computing , the MBP/r is mainly an on-the-go type of tool.

Take care , guy`s

Gary 

A basic 2014 costs 500$ and configuring for 16gb RAM costs 800$, a 300$ markup. Compare that you can buy 16GB of memory for a 2012 Mini for 65$, a 4.5X price difference. The GPU in the 2014 is about 1-2x better than the 2012 version

This article discusses the issues in the 2014 and you can expect the 2016 will be worse IMO.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/11/not-the-upgrade-we-were-hoping-for-the-2014-mac-mini-reviewed/

 

[Cape Dave]

"I'm sorry, but Dainty Hurl is not in your contact list. Here are the Bing search results..."

Too funny! LOL!

 

[flyinmac]

"I'm sorry, but Dainty Hurl is not in your contact list. Here are the Bing search results..."

Siri: "results indicate you wish to initiate conference calling with Hillary and Donald?, press pound key to accept."

 

[Miat]

You can just turn it off in settings.

Fair enough. But still prefer it wasn't installed in the first place.

Not interested in a having smartphone pretending to be a desktop.

 

[scaramoosh]

My Mum needs to get this as every week I visit her she has about 10 viruses on Windows.

 

[Crosscreek]

My Mum needs to get this as every week I visit her she has about 10 viruses on Windows.

If it's Windows 10 turn on Windows defender and install Malwarebytes.

https://www.malwarebytes.com

If not Windows 10....upgrade. That will stop virus penetration unless she ignores warnings about web sites.

 

[scaramoosh]

If it's Windows 10 turn on Windows defender and install Malwarebytes.

https://www.malwarebytes.com

If not Windows 10....upgrade. That will stop virus penetration unless she ignores warnings about web sites.

It is and I installed malwarebytes.... however she believes every pop up she see's (I dunno how she's getting pop ups in 2016) and has somehow installed 3 fake virus protectors when I saw her last week and had her Bt internet account hacked....

She's a ****ing idiot and so she needs a Mac.

 

[Crosscreek]

It is and I installed malwarebytes.... however she believes every pop up she see's (I dunno how she's getting pop ups in 2016) and has somehow installed 3 fake virus protectors when I saw her last week and had her Bt internet account hacked....

She's a ****ing idiot and so she needs a Mac.

lol....yes-I understand.

 

[mojolicious]

It is and I installed malwarebytes.... however she believes every pop up she see's (I dunno how she's getting pop ups in 2016) and has somehow installed 3 fake virus protectors when I saw her last week and had her Bt internet account hacked....

She's a ****ing idiot and so she needs a Mac.

Heh. but how long will it take her to discover MacKeeper?

Out of interest... my daughter got a shiny Zenbook for uni a couple of weeks ago. Came with a one year McAfee sub, which I probably foolishly uninstalled and left it all to Defender.

She's a sensible girl (an aspiring accountant!?!) and is 'aware' of security issues, but is there a must-have, non-intrusive, free third party malware / virus / etc prophylactic she should install?

 

[sunapple]

Fair enough. But still prefer it wasn't installed in the first place.

Not interested in a having smartphone pretending to be a desktop.

You sound like someone who's still on Snow Leopard, so I think you're fine.

 

[294307]

Fair enough. But still prefer it wasn't installed in the first place.

Not interested in a having smartphone pretending to be a desktop.

OS X (or macOS now) doesn't pretend to be a smartphone operating system, it still works and feels like a desktop operating system to me, they are just merging some features that make sense to be on a desktop. Not all features will be right for everyone - I am not interested in Siri either, so that's why I'll be turning it off in System Preferences when I eventually upgrade to macOS Sierra.

 

[Miat]

Snow Leopard?

What do you think, I live in the dark ages? I am only 3 generations behind on my OS. Nothing wrong with Grandpa Mavericks.

Just make sure you keep that fancy modern interactive talking-machine witchcraft away from me. That'd be the devil's own sirens at work. If you don't watch out, next thing you know they will electrophillicly-incorporate you into racing Tron at light speed for the hand of Siri. It can only end in tears.

 

[addictive]

I realise no-one can answer this because my guess is as good as everyone else but would forum members expect HDMI to be one of the ports on the next iteration of the Mac Mini?

Given the alleged chassis of the next Retina Macbook Pro which has only four USB-C ports and a headphone socket I'm wondering if Apple would do similar on the Mac Mini and give it four USB-C port removing HDMI, SD Card, Ethernet and all else.

I suppose Apple would be making it the Mac Mini much smaller if it did this.

What do people think?

 

[Mac 128]

I realise no-one can answer this because my guess is as good as everyone else but would forum members expect HDMI to be one of the ports on the next iteration of the Mac Mini?

Given the alleged chassis of the next Retina Macbook Pro which has only four USB-C ports and a headphone socket I'm wondering if Apple would do similar on the Mac Mini and give it four USB-C port removing HDMI, SD Card, Ethernet and all else.

I suppose Apple would be making it the Mac Mini much smaller if it did this.

What do people think?

No. HDMI is not a native spec output by USB-C. That means, a USB-C to HDMI cable is all that's needed. I would expect new TVs and Displays to start coming with USB-C as well.