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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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With new chips being (hopefully) released in the "holiday season", it is a long shot for October in 2014l Possible, but fading probability.
With fan-less chips coming, I wouldn't be surprised if the mini gets a complete redesign, all components soldered down, in 2015 or 2016.
I hope not all soldered down or even glued down. I like the way with the mini you can buy a basic machine and add more memory hd ssd etc quite easily using an as you go budget. If that goes out the window and the cost is not down the lower end I don't see the point. I still cannot see why they can't or won't release a Haswell mini. It can't be because they believe a two year old processor/graphics combination still cuts it. Especially in the light of the big A being seen as a leader in terms of product.
I think all of this is contingent on what Apple is going to do with the server market.
It will have to be serviceable as a server.
It will have to be serviceable as a server.
and that answers the (simple) question. I was curious if you were basing your date on something or just picking it out of the air.
Certainly a new mini could drop at any time. Or it may not. It was reasonable for folks on the fence to wait for WWDC, though now we're past that event there's no clear milestone until Sept/Oct when Apple may be any more or less likely to release an update.
Well the 2012 still sells okay on amazon.
the tv market is not flooded with 4k tvs.
most of us don't need a better mini.
the 2012 quad is a bit short on graphics.
Apple will make us wait.
Frankly they should drop the 27 inch imac. its time has come.
sell the 24 inch imac as its lowend desktop
and sell a Max Mini or mini Mac Pro
so the line up would be iMac - big mini - mac pro
my post above is all a pipe dream
He would be left with all the necessary componets.
You can build a custom case on your own and install the componets in it.
Even though it has a proprietary you can connect your own screen via the ports on the back!
Never saw something like that, but I image it would be awesome, great idea Yvan256
Because the current iMac parts are so small, it would make a very small htpc machine.
Using a third-party cooler would also dramatically improve temperatures and silence-factor of the mac!
p.s: your links shows the 2009 model, the current is much more elegant to take apart because it has less parts: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac+Intel+27-Inch+EMC+2639+Teardown/17828
I was wondering how long until someone pointed out my photo was the 2009 iMac...point being, the parts are in the display and I didn't really care. I think your project would be very cool but I'm not willing to toy around with the guts of a $2000 machine...WAY too expensive for me to fumble around with. OTOH, you can build a fantastic mini-ITX Hackintosh for $1400 that would CRUSH your iMac and put it all in a nice small case.
OSX is too good to leave, but the PC hardware is so cheap...hmmm.
@philma - the only iMac I'd consider is the 27 and if they dropped the Mini it would probably be my choice, so I wouldn't want them to drop it. They could do a mini Mac Pro for similar money as top end Mac Mini and make the new cheap iMac the entry level device. Given that choice I'd go for the mini Mac Pro rather than an iMac
Yes your right,
But it would make sense to mod a 21.5" entry level iMac and hook it up to a bigger screen. You can find them cheap at the refurb store. (about 1k right now)
Hardware of the entry level one is fine for my needs , (quad i5 and iris pro!) but the small screen holds me back.
Still a bit risky, if you don't have the skills and equipment to do this.
Would be really cool OWC provides such a service like they do for other modifications.
Yes your right,
But it would make sense to mod a 21.5" entry level iMac and hook it up to a bigger screen. You can find them cheap at the refurb store. (about 1k right now)
Hardware of the entry level one is fine for my needs , (quad i5 and iris pro!) but the small screen holds me back.
Still a bit risky, if you don't have the skills and equipment to do this.
Would be really cool OWC provides such a service like they do for other modifications.
No need to do so. A 21.5 imac will allow you to use a larger screen as the main screen and use the 21.5 screen as a secondary screen. A dual screen setup with the imac screen as the secondary. You can have the main screen right in front of you and have to imac 21.5 off to the side as a secondary.
You will be losing nothing and gaining a secondary screen for dual screen mode.
No need to do so. A 21.5 imac will allow you to use a larger screen as the main screen and use the 21.5 screen as a secondary screen. A dual screen setup with the imac screen as the secondary. You can have the main screen right in front of you and have to imac 21.5 off to the side as a secondary.
You will be losing nothing and gaining a secondary screen for dual screen mode.
thanks for that info.
Sounds great!
I can't waste any more time whining and ebaying and scheming. I went ahead and ordered one of the i7 mini refurbs that just popped up at Apple. This means that Apple will absolutely release a new mini in exactly 15 days.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
Lol. Someone a few pages back suggested that people are selling these trying to get rid of them for dirt cheap in anticipation of the new ones. They were right. I may get a 2012 now b/c 1. who knows when apple will actually release another and 2. I'm seeing Minis still under initial apple care warranty come with keyboard, mouse, TB hd, and i7 processors being sold for $500 on my local CL. That's hard to pass up-even with a new one coming one day.
Your Craigslist is better than ours. Should have had you get one for me! I figure, I kept this G4 laptop for what, almost ten years now, and I'm typing on it now. I wouldn't change even now if I could update my software. What does it matter if I get this year's model or two year old one if I hold onto it for a decade?
I meant "rip out the LCD panel". Happy?
My life is complete now that you posted that...think I self-actualized just a second ago.
We could also argue that the iMac is not simply a display but the whole computer, so "ripping out the display" doesn't describe ripping out the whole computer.
In any case, where's our new Mac mini? Are we waiting for Broadwell?
I'm afraid the Mac mini will disappear and be replaced by the Mac nano/Mac Air.
Unless they go with the C64-style of having the computer merged with the keyboard? However I don't think Apple will go this way just because of how it will look with all the wires coming out of the keyboard and laying everywhere on the desk. It wouldn't result in a clean-looking desktop.
All roads lead to October.
Historically, the mid-2010 Mac Mini was released the week after WWDC, and the mid-2011 Mac Mini was released a month after WWDC. The late 2012 Mac Mini came much later, in the end of October.
The other Apple line that hasn't been updated since 2012 is the MacBook Pro. It, too, is widely expected to based on and waiting for Intel Broadwell. More than one rumor site makes a strong case for the MacBook Pro being released in October.
Intel's CEO recently promised that Broadwell would be out at the beginning of the holiday season this year.
While there is no chatter at all about the Mac Mini in the rumor mill, this is probably because it is being made at Apple's new US plant. Other Apple hardware is made in China and rumors leak out months in advance there, but the Mac Pro was made at the US plant and no rumors at all preceded it.
I'm posting this on a 2006 Core Duo Mac Mini that I promised myself I'd run into the ground, and I sure have delivered on that promise. I should have bought the late 2012 Mini but other things were going on then and I couldn't think about buying until now - and I just can't make myself pay these prices for a two-year-old computer. So I shall wait for October; if there's no new Mac Mini in October, Apple has let the line die and I'll buy something else.
Historically, the mid-2010 Mac Mini was released the week after WWDC, and the mid-2011 Mac Mini was released a month after WWDC. The late 2012 Mac Mini came much later, in the end of October.
The other Apple line that hasn't been updated since 2012 is the MacBook Pro. It, too, is widely expected to based on and waiting for Intel Broadwell. More than one rumor site makes a strong case for the MacBook Pro being released in October.
Intel's CEO recently promised that Broadwell would be out at the beginning of the holiday season this year.
While there is no chatter at all about the Mac Mini in the rumor mill, this is probably because it is being made at Apple's new US plant. Other Apple hardware is made in China and rumors leak out months in advance there, but the Mac Pro was made at the US plant and no rumors at all preceded it.
I'm posting this on a 2006 Core Duo Mac Mini that I promised myself I'd run into the ground, and I sure have delivered on that promise. I should have bought the late 2012 Mini but other things were going on then and I couldn't think about buying until now - and I just can't make myself pay these prices for a two-year-old computer. So I shall wait for October; if there's no new Mac Mini in October, Apple has let the line die and I'll buy something else.
IMO
Broadwell for the Mini, if the Mini survives, realistically may not happen until next year.
IMacs and MacBook Pro + MBA will get it first.
At long last, a voice af reason. After all this, "They're going to do this and that to make the Mini great , **** the Apple enthusiasts. It is pretty clear what Apple's intention is, folks. It's IOS devices. Commupters, whether desktop or mobile, no. That is so pre-Beats. If you don't think that Tim Cook is not an evolutionary sell-out, think again. Embrace the new Apple. It is not pretty.