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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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The 8c/16t one is 95watts, but there is going to be a full product stack with lower powered CPUs and APUs.
This year the new kaby lake mini is coming, if not, the mini will be dead
Or a Skylake mini.Unless there's a new broadwell mini
Let's face it, Apple waited 16 months to give the Mac mini Haswell chips (June 2013 for the Air and October 2014 for the mini), so imagine if we only get a Skylake mini until October 2017...
Soon we will have a Pentium 2 CPU in our beloved mini! Oh how sweet that will be! If we are really lucky, maybe a 486. SX. Oh the power!
Foregoing dual boot will do wonders for overall sales
But seeing as how the Mac side is the red-headed step child at Apple, I wouldn't be surprised.
I would buy an ARM mac mini tomorrow for any amount of money for no other reason than:
"holy crap this thing is cool"
I'd get a rMB for exactly this reason. I'd love a non-Intel toy just because. I meant computer. Not toy.
Cool running dual A10s and an AMD 480m?
Native emulation of iOS devices would be good for us developers.
Yup, something like that. Rosetta II will have to be pretty damn good though unless they find a way to make all current devs recompile their code and convince users that they will never need to use software that is no longer in development.
I'd still buy it, because it sounds, on paper, much more exciting than "7% increase in CPU speed and 0.4 mm thinner".
I love this Thread, I wish this thread would get some press outside of the Mac forums. It is amazing that Timmy & Jony continue ignore so many loyal users, that are begging for the simplest and easiest Mac solution to implement. This thread has over 9,000 replies and millions of views. This thread is based on a false rumour, but has turned into a collection of hopes, wishes, disappointments, discussions and critiques. This thread is a community inside these macrumors forums which is like a city full of Apple loyalists. It is common to hear people state: "Steve Jobs would never have done...." this or that Apple decision. But I am 100% positive that Steve Jobs would never have let a popular and loved product like the Mac mini be downgraded (2014) and likely killed in 2017. I cannot tell you how frustrating (as a business owner and huge Mac and apple user) the past 4 years have been. The Mac Pro is an unnecessarily expensive design disaster, the Mac mini is brutally under powered yet not upgradable. Timmy the commie nazi supply chain guru will give us a new iMac this year and we can like it or leave. It will be thinner, glued together and $1000 more, feature usb C and be available in rose gold! Timmy will then merge Mac development with the iPad and go onto champion social justice and we in turn will learn Windows! Please Timmy say it is not so!!
It's not just here at MacRumors.
Nearly every business I know that has the Mac as a standard platform has been seriously re-evaluating that. All of them now have replacement plans in effect. All of them that I know of are looking to drop everything Apple (not just the Macs) if the Mac situation keeps going like it is.
I don't know of any more individuals (except for some on this board) that recommend the Mac anymore for anything. Many of them are no longer recommending the iPhone or iPad either. Most of them are really wondering what's going on with Apple. Many are worried. The more they know, the more it seems that they're getting ready to abandon Apple completely. With the most dedicated Apple fans that I know, some of them seem to be suffering from psychological trauma.
Apple has resisted the problems of the "Innovator's Dilemma" situation for a long time because of a ridiculously loyal fan base. That fan base is now being slowly and systematically decimated, piece by piece.
Nearly every business I know that has the Mac as a standard platform has been seriously re-evaluating that. All of them now have replacement plans in effect. All of them that I know of are looking to drop everything Apple (not just the Macs) if the Mac situation keeps going like it is.
I don't know of any more individuals (except for some on this board) that recommend the Mac anymore for anything. Many of them are no longer recommending the iPhone or iPad either. Most of them are really wondering what's going on with Apple. Many are worried. The more they know, the more it seems that they're getting ready to abandon Apple completely. With the most dedicated Apple fans that I know, some of them seem to be suffering from psychological trauma.
Apple has resisted the problems of the "Innovator's Dilemma" situation for a long time because of a ridiculously loyal fan base. That fan base is now being slowly and systematically decimated, piece by piece.
Windows does not suck.
Nor does Android.
To say nothing of Linux, which seems to be improving by leaps and bounds, monthly.
If, as it seems, Apple is getting ready to kick us all in the tuchus, there is absolutely no reason not to kick back, hard.
I can live without Apple, The question remains, can Apple live without its customers?
That situation has proven to be a challenge for many companies throughout history.
I upgraded macOS through the App Store last night and all is well with the hack. First visit back in 3 weeks. I've been spending all my time in Linux for regular and secure sessions and playing games in Windows 10. I finding less and less reason for macOS any longer.
I'm running Mint 18.1 with Wine installed for my 1Password password manager from macOS and Windows 10 cross platform use.
I can use it for all my video encoding cross platform also. If I could play all my games in it I would skip Windows and macOS altogether.
I can use it for all my video encoding cross platform also. If I could play all my games in it I would skip Windows and macOS altogether.
How effing hard is to upgrade the chipset, storage, I/O ports, etc, every year or so in your conventional computing devices, to at least keep up with the market, even if you don't develop new forms?
It is becoming very difficult to avoid the conclusion that Apple are slowly walking away from the conventional computer market.
It is becoming very difficult to avoid the conclusion that Apple are slowly walking away from the conventional computer market.
I am not surprised at all having read that article about engineers no longer being allocated to projects and lack of Mac division. It seems they pretty much work on Macs when they have a few hours off from iPhone.
That seems to be the downside of Apple's organization. They've long touted how they're organized like a start up and that worked well for them for a long time, but at this stage I think its hurting them more then helping. I truly believe we'd have some much better Macs if they employed a dedicated team to design and build Macs.
