Yeah... That sounds like Apple. Though I doubt they would throw in an HDMI port out of the goodness of their hearts. I bet they get the footprint down thanks to "fabulous engineering" (and the removal of nearly every port, and spinning drive).
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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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I suspect they are factoring-in the support costs:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/15...-help-desk-support-compared-to-40-of-pc-users
Pessimistic 'cause I'm predicting only two USB-C ports, one of which has to be used for power.
I do mean MagSafe. Instead of some RCA jack like DC power plug, Apple could use their MagSafe design.
Why not the USB-C, MagSafe is dead at this point.
Yep. All you need is a USB C to magsafe adaptor to go with your other adaptors. Magsafe would be great for those times when you need to grab your mini and hurl it at an intruder.
Yep, I don't doubt that (from my own experience), but they need to provide the numbers. They need to drill it down to what the average savings is per client. They really haven't shown those numbers yet.
Because USB-C needs active intelligence at both ends to turn the power up to 100W. If Apple can't make the system first start up in a low power mode, they may need an alternate power supply. At this time, MagSafe makes more sense then any sort of phono plug type connector.
Why would they want either of those options on a Mini? The AC line cord makes perfect sense for a Mini and takes very little room. I mean, my little AppleTV3 has the same kind of AC cord.
I wish Apple would sell this as a Mac Mini. I'd pay them $2,000 for it; no questions asked.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856173138
One thunderbolt port and I would buy this right now, been thinking about it for a while
[doublepost=1478990622][/doublepost]My dream scenario is they refresh the mini in march with a quad core intel HD580 that would work with a eGPU.
It would just be the perfect solution.
As far as the lack of update I wonder just how much of it is directly related to Apple's iPhone problem, they HAVE to release a new iPhone every year, it just makes disproportionately too much money compared to all their other products.
It has to ship in September and they probably move ressources from the macOS team and hardware team in order to make that happen.
All the people they moved to project titan probably did not help, they are just stretched too thin and let's face it the Mac mini is not a big money maker so just not a priority.
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awful lot of mac minis appearing in the refrub store lately, they sell and more are posted again. maybe they are clearing them out for the new ones to come in? or testing out how much demand is for refurb thus knowing the demand for the mini. I say that bc why buy a new one when you can buy a refurb one
Guys, when is the general consensus for these new Mac Minis being released, in terms of previous Apple releases, CPU availability etc?
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Honestly? Of late, Apple has scaled back on iMac updates, made one single underwhelming update of the Mini in the last four years, and practically stopped saying anything about the Pro.
It is very hard to say anything about the future of these particular product lines with Apple, other than that they are receiving far, far less development than the iPhone and iPads. In the past, there's usually been some sort of rumor any time Apple ramps up development for the next iteration of the Mini; but I haven't heard a peep in the usual sources. If there is going to ever be another Mini update, I doubt it will happen any time soon...
Not a single one in the Australian store in recent weeks, and almost none at all this whole year.
Mac Minis have previously been released in January, February, March, June, July, August, September and October, at intervals ranging from a few months to a couple of years or so. It could be that the new Mac Mini is released in November, December, April or May to fill the gaps.
There was at one stage a consensus that the day would be Thursday, but when the 2014 Mac mini came on a Tuesday, that idea was blown to shreds.
CPU availability is irrelevant, as is etc.
There are those who feel that it may never come. It's demise was predicted as far back as 2009, yet new Mac Minis have continued to come, from time to time.
I remain true the opinion that the new Mac Mini is indeed almost certainly coming……
All in all, among the guys here there is no general consensus. It may be different for gals.
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To give a less thourough, but more practical answer than the others. March is your best bet right now, as there will probably be a keynote event then. Other months are possible but then it wil most likely be a silent update. After March October is your best bet, although WWDC remains a possibility as wel.
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Apple currently have three desktop lines. It's their belief that laptops are where the profit centres are, and where the 'future' of modern computing is. Yet they have recently eliminated the 11" MBA and put the 13" MBA on life support - although we might see the 13" Air (and old model Pros which are still lingering) for the next 4 years. Going forward it would seem that the Macbook, and two sizes of Macbook Pro will be the future - three lines.
We have also seen the iPad Pro potentially eating into the low end Mac Mini areas in future - look at the speculation over a 10" iPad Pro which would appear to be replacing the iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro 9.7".
Even if you discount the possibility of any iPad being the cause of the Mac Mini's demise I have the growing feeling that Apple are running a macOS side project which will eventually culminate in the creation of a Mac Nano - for want of a better name - all SSD and ARM cpu in a tiny box which will run apps only from the Mac Nano App Store - because why wouldn't Apple want a cut of revenue this way? It worked for Sony and Microsoft for their games consoles.
Apple already acknowledge the fact that they take 'less profit' from the Mini to make it happen. Despite the fact that we can now predict the next Mini could be based off the 13" Macbook Pro many of the people in this forum seem to want Intel horsepower on the cheap whereas Apple are looking at less profit per unit and spending commensurately less on R&D.
If you take a look into the Mac Pro forum, we already see people moaning about the pejorative perception that the 'new' Mac Pro 6,1 is a Mac Mini Pro. Could we see a future where there's only a Retina iMac in two sizes, and a Mac Pro which has a lower base model using i7 and one GPU?
If the Mini was scrapped and instead we were offered a lower base model Mac Pro - in that case - but costing twice the price of the top end current Mini would that satisfy many of the people in this thread wanting more cores, more compute power and dedicated graphics? Is there a silent majority willing to pay for low-powered but quiet and efficient computer?
We have also seen the iPad Pro potentially eating into the low end Mac Mini areas in future - look at the speculation over a 10" iPad Pro which would appear to be replacing the iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro 9.7".
Even if you discount the possibility of any iPad being the cause of the Mac Mini's demise I have the growing feeling that Apple are running a macOS side project which will eventually culminate in the creation of a Mac Nano - for want of a better name - all SSD and ARM cpu in a tiny box which will run apps only from the Mac Nano App Store - because why wouldn't Apple want a cut of revenue this way? It worked for Sony and Microsoft for their games consoles.
Apple already acknowledge the fact that they take 'less profit' from the Mini to make it happen. Despite the fact that we can now predict the next Mini could be based off the 13" Macbook Pro many of the people in this forum seem to want Intel horsepower on the cheap whereas Apple are looking at less profit per unit and spending commensurately less on R&D.
If you take a look into the Mac Pro forum, we already see people moaning about the pejorative perception that the 'new' Mac Pro 6,1 is a Mac Mini Pro. Could we see a future where there's only a Retina iMac in two sizes, and a Mac Pro which has a lower base model using i7 and one GPU?
If the Mini was scrapped and instead we were offered a lower base model Mac Pro - in that case - but costing twice the price of the top end current Mini would that satisfy many of the people in this thread wanting more cores, more compute power and dedicated graphics? Is there a silent majority willing to pay for low-powered but quiet and efficient computer?
like that idea, scrap the mini and mac pro and just combine them together, could have 3 versions low power, mid power and extremely powerful ranging from $1000-$3000
Tim's Apple builds for the mass market and neither Mac Pro or Mini fit in that profile.
I fear we're probably talking about prices starting at $2k but it would be an advance on $3k for the Mac Pro at the moment. It's bad enough that Apple's Mac Pro is hated by the people who could afford it but decided to shop elsewhere, the people who might have forked out the cash can't afford that kind of money even if they wanted to have something - and there's the vocal community that don't think the cheaper Mac Mini or the iMac does the job either.
So go on Apple, fit a Xeon E3 v5 Skylake CPU on a C236 work station chipset inside the Mac Pro, use just one AMD GPU, 4 USB-C, 4 USB3 Gen 1, 1 Ethernet and the usual Bluetooth/Wifi etc and price it temptingly.
I'd also say that the iMac probably has to start cheaper to help fill the gap left behind by a discontinued Mini unless Apple decide to go all out for energy efficiency and create just one variant of Mac Mini going forward - the 15w model which would be a variation on the basic non-toolbar 13" Macbook Pro.
Has to have more USB ports. Unlike the MBP, a screen and keyboard +maybe a mouse needs to be connected.
Apple computers can just vanish from the earth as far as I am concerned, so long as they don't require XCode to run on Apple hardware. I just wish I hadn't given away (sold cheaply) my 2014 base Mac Mini in May of this year to family on the other side of the world - I felt certain that a new mini was coming. Oops. Can tell I am a noobie to Mac, thinking they follow some sort of regular schedule.
Hey, this is fairly new to all of us.
Apple was created as a desktop computer company, and at least up until recently, it continued to play that role. But it just doesn't seem interested in that market any more. nah, don't feel to bad, they normally follow a regular schedule, but they do not necessarily follow this schedule. There where however no mac mini rumours at all, which is often (not always) a sign that no new mac mini is coming anytime soon. It was more than logical that they would have updated the mac mini last month.