We don't have an answer for that, we just have vague info about desktops in general. Mini may still be dead. Dead to me!
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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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We don't have an answer for that, we just have vague info about desktops in general. Mini may still be dead. Dead to me!
Measured in decades.
Apple Speak: The next Mac Mini and Mac Pro will be so advanced it'll take our competition decades to match their specifications.
English Translation: The new Macs are planned to be released 50 years from now. They will be more advanced than any computer on the market today.
End User Translation: I pressed the power button and nothing happened.
I am still waiting, however "we have great new desktops in our road map" does not necessarily include mac mini's, and even then, will they be quad cores? They could simply release mac pro's and iMacs... I sure hope that there is a mac mini coming, but I have hoped that for a few years.
I agree and don't think this should give anyone much hope for a new Mini. The Techcrunch article that story was based on never mentions the Mini.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/19/a...o-the-mac-and-that-great-desktops-are-coming/
"So no matter how you feel about the state of the Mac at the moment, you have new machines to look forward to. No mention of whether that meant iMac or Mac Pro or both"
And Tim Cook rambles on about the beautiful iMac 5k display and all the innovation resulting from the Apple Watch. Sounds like the Mini is no longer on anybody's radar. And why should it be after the lame 2014 "update"?
meaningless without publishing the map ... which would, of course, reveal truth and lies - so we'll never see it ... if it's like their profit map we won't be able to refer to the new boxes as true desktops.
Interesting that as Apple's profit margin increases - long-term value for the end-user decreases - so the longer we adhere to this ecosystem the more apparent are our losses. At some point being "smart" says you have to jump ship and that time is fast approaching.
If the next refresh lacks a viable path over a 5-7 year span I'll let my setup advance to legacy and move over to .... I just can't say it yet.
Interesting that as Apple's profit margin increases - long-term value for the end-user decreases - so the longer we adhere to this ecosystem the more apparent are our losses. At some point being "smart" says you have to jump ship and that time is fast approaching.
If the next refresh lacks a viable path over a 5-7 year span I'll let my setup advance to legacy and move over to .... I just can't say it yet.
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There will be new desktops. I'm sure there will be new iMacs, but beyond that we are still in the dark. Still the new mac mini is almost certainly coming.
Hey, I had a few of those in my family and several more at work. They were actually very powerful boxes and reasonably priced… much like the Mini later became (pre-2014). I especially liked the Performa 475 and LC 475 "pizza box" machines that were the same as the Quadra 605 - a very respectable machine in its day. I used one as an AppleShare server at work. http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_performa/specs/mac_performa_475.html
The 6360 was another nice workhorse back then. I was running a version of unix on one of these for awhile (it actually ran under Mac OS System 9). It was our company's e-mail and webserver, using a blazing fast leased 64k line to PSINet!
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_performa/specs/mac_performa_6360_160.htmlI think a lot of us would be pretty happy today with a Mini that was positioned in the same niche that the LC and Performa series occupied "back in the day".
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Sounding more and more like the Mini is not on the map… https://www.macrumors.com/2016/12/20/usb-c-imac-touch-bar-magic-keyboard/
Apple is preparing modest updates to its Mac lineup for next year, including new iMac models with USB-C ports and new AMD graphics chips, and "minor bumps" in processing power for 12-inch MacBook and MacBook Promodels, according to Bloomberg.
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The fate of the Mac Pro and Mac mini is less clear.
Which will be used by the next macOS update to obsolete all Macs older than 2017.
Gave may hack a Christmas present today. Upgraded to AMD graphics and already had USB-C on the MB. Windows side has the rocking Nvidia GTX 1070 tho.
Nice to be able to beat Apple at their own game for a lot less money.
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I would be perfectly happy (ecstatic really) if the next mini was the 2016 Macbook without a screen. Just give me 8 GB of RAM and an SSD as standard options and I couldn't care less what CPU they use.
[doublepost=1482300483][/doublepost]And let's be honest with ourselves. We have been waiting for a new Mac Mini since October of 2012.
I use my 2015 like that a lot of the time. Only the price difference is a bit... noticeable.
The joke was in regards to future macOS features requiring BT 5 to function.
It's good. I thought I'd need a dock but I don't actually. I connect the charger (I have an extra one) + HDMI cable, laptop closed, done. HDMI transmits sound to the monitor, which is connected to a speaker system. I actually sometimes forget I am not on my Big Hac and I get confused about why I am missing certain files or programs
The only problem is that I use Microsoft Sculpt keyboard and that requires a tiny USB receiver. My other USB is occupied by a 128 GB tiny USB stick. So in order to use anything else with USB I need to disconnect the stick. My Time Machine backups are done to a microSD card (I want to move to wireless but need some spare money first). Also I have remapped some keys on Macbook keyboard which makes two Sculpt keys not function properly, which is solved easily by clicking on the Karabiner icon and switching layouts.
I am impressed by how easily MBP handles changing resolution from its native to 2560x1440. Full screen windows generally remain full screen. One exception is Chrome which requires a few clicks to adjust. And it's super comfortable to disconnect the rMBP from those two cables and move to the sofa and have everything exactly as it was a minute ago. I wish I came up with this idea earlier!
Here is where Apple is now days with Mac, nowhere.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/how-apple-alienated-mac-loyalists
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/how-apple-alienated-mac-loyalists
"The affordable and flexible Mac mini was last upgraded in 2014. And when a new machine does roll out, the results are sometimes underwhelming, if not infuriating, to devotees."
Dunno if this one has ben posted elsewhere, but The Verge has an article pretty much saying what everybody else is. I think this sentence sums it up:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/21/14037686/apple-macbook-macos-focus-mobile-features-ios
http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/21/14037686/apple-macbook-macos-focus-mobile-features-ios
It doesn't seem like a re-designed mini is in the cards anytime soon, or ever.
Well I don't really go along with that. In a way, I feel kind of the opposite… why do we need a new version of MacOS every year? Do they even have time to fix the bugs in each version? I just want a stable and fast operating system where all my expensive software doesn't become obsolete every couple years.
Looking back over recent years, the notification manager and iMessage are probably the only new features that I find useful. And it's funny that "legacy" has such a negative connotation when it comes to computers. In the real world, it is something valuable to be honored; something that others who are less fortunate would envy.