The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming

[q64ceo]

How is a 12 year old thread about potential new Mac Minis in 2013 still going?

 

[eRondeau]

There’s always going to be something newer & shinier just around the corner. If you’re forever holding-off for the next model you’re never going to be happy. I have a slightly-above-base M4 Mac Mini with an older 2TB Thunderbolt drive for external storage and it’s perfect. I didn’t “overspec” it for my needs. Buy the M4 tomorrow, you won’t regret it.

 

[Populus]

Of course s/he doesn’t have any reliable info on this.

Anyhow, even if there are functional M5 prototypes currently in the lab, there is no guarantee such a beast will be released. My personal belief is that the Mac mini will skip the M5 generation. M4 was a pretty significant upgrade and is good enough for a couple of years. I'm not convinced there is much of a need to update the base model Mac mini to Thunderbolt 5 and DP 2.1 anytime soon. The M4 Pro Mac mini already fills that niche.

Will the next Apple Display support Thunderbolt 5? Maybe. Will it require Thunderbolt 5 to function? Probably not. And even if it does, the M4 Pro Mac mini already exists.

In fact, in certain countries, you would have been better off buying that M4 Mac mini last fall. Apple increased the upgrade option pricing on the Mac mini in some countries. For example, here in Canada, I paid CA$1281.50 edu for a 24/512 GB M4 Mac mini with 10 GbE. Now, the exact same configuration is CA$1404 edu, which represents a 10% price increase. The base model pricing is still the same in Canada, but they raised prices for the RAM, storage, and Ethernet upgrades.

Yeah, they did just the same here in Europe. The final price with the edu discount didn’t change much, tbh, but they raised the price of the upgrades from 230€ to 250€ each step. Then, with the edu discount, you get a 10% off from each upgrade step, which leaves it again at 225€ per step.

But yeah, with all the tariffs and stuff, maybe in a few months they raise prices again…

 

[DesertSurfer]

There is no guarantee that there will be an m5 mini. I would buy an m4 now, all things considered.

 

[Altis]

How is a 12 year old thread about potential new Mac Minis in 2013 still going?

I first posted in this thread in September of 2014, speculating a replacement to my 2007 PC.

Countless posts in this thread and a now very aged 2015 PC later, I finally got the M4 Mini two months ago. The new Mac Mini was coming all along! It was looking grim for a while, though.

I kind of think the current Mini is pretty end-game and don't think it'll change much for years, while being the best value and performance it's ever been.

 

[Michael Scrip]

How is a 12 year old thread about potential new Mac Minis in 2013 still going?

Simple answer... forum notifications.

WE. MUST. CLICK.

 

[Boil]

I clicked...! ;^p

 

[richpjr]

Simple answer... forum notifications.

WE. MUST. CLICK.

LOL - that is very true.

 

[Populus]

Yeah, especially for legendary threads like this one.

 

[bice]

How is a 12 year old thread about potential new Mac Minis in 2013 still going?

Best.thread.ever!


Or think of it like this. The thread will keep going until one day when we know that a new mac mini certainly isn't coming. That'll be a sad day.

 

[Micky Do]

How is a 12 year old thread about potential new Mac Minis in 2013 still going?

Eternally relevant because new Mac Minis continue coming.

Thanks to @GabrieleR, who has posted on MacRumours only a dozen times, but created this thread.

 

[Micky Do]

There is no guarantee that there will be an m5 mini. I would buy an m4 now, all things considered.

I see pundits already speculating that the M5 Mac Mini is almost certainly coming.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

I see pundits already speculating that the M5 Mac Mini is almost certainly coming.

Initial rumours suggest it will be a 1 inch cube, with zero ports. All connections will be via bluetooth and wi-fi.

 

[Boil]

Initial rumours suggest it will be a 1 inch cube, with zero ports. All connections will be via bluetooth and wi-fi.

Too small, gonna be 3.14" cubed, gotta cool the Mn Pro as well...! ;^p

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

My M4 Pro mini is awesome. Time to think about its upgrade. Are there any rumors so far regarding the M10 Mac mini???

 

[colinsky]

My M4 Pro mini is awesome. Time to think about its upgrade. Are there any rumors so far regarding the M10 Mac mini???

I'm waiting for the M16 Mini which is available in a fully automatic version.

 

[DesertSurfer]

Too small, gonna be 3.14" cubed, gotta cool the Mn Pro as well...! ;^p

It might be a function of 3.14, but smaller, probably 1.77".

 

[Boyd01]

Why have any size at all? It could be a virtual Mini that you subscribe to!

 

[McScooby]

There is no guarantee that there will be an m5 mini. I would buy an m4 now, all things considered.

I'm guessing Wi-Fi 7 will make an appearance on an designed chip before the end of the year.

 

[Daydog]

or🍏or wait for it da da🍍....🤣😆😂

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

or🍏or wait for it da da🍍....🤣😆😂

Some of us are old enough to remember that soon after Apple appeared, so did computers called Orange, Apricot, Acorn, Tangerine, Peach and Olive(etti*)...


* Sorry, that's a pun I stole from somebody else

 

[McScooby]

Some of us are old enough to remember that soon after Apple appeared, so did computers called Orange, Apricot, Acorn, Tangerine, Peach and Olive(etti*)...


* Sorry, that's a pun I stole from somebody else

History has shown us that they were all lemons.

 

[polyphenol]

Too small, gonna be 3.14" cubed, gotta cool the Mn Pro as well...! ;^p

Should be 3.14159265 cubed.

Apple Pi.

 

[Zest28]

I am a Senior Hardware Engineer at Apple. Trust me when I say this, Apple will launch a M5 Mac Mini in the future.

Wait, there is more. Based on a top secret meeting with Tim himself, I can confirm that we will have a M6 Mac Mini after the M5 Mac Mini.

 

[Neodym]

History has shown us that they were all lemons.

Without the Acorn Archimedes we wouldn’t have iPhones or Mx Macs nowadays. The Acorn RISC Machine is the basis for many of the nice devices we can buy from Apple today.