https://www.anandtech.com/show/14173/ready-for-intels-r0-coffee-lake-cpus
I just ordered mine... so I'm thinking they probably will! Buuuuut curious what everyone else thinks! Speed bumping isn't something that Apple has been too good at over the past few years.
Who knows, and does it really matter? If you need a new computer now, and something in the current Mac Mini range fits your needs, get one now. I you can wait, then wait.
I was in need of a portable to tote to work most days last year, so I got a MacBook Air just a couple of months before the new model was released. I needed it then, at the start of a new term (I'm a teacher), so I got it then, and have no regrets. The new model offers some benefits, but none of great functional significance from my point of view.
Meanwhile, my early 2009 Mac mini soldiers on, doing what I expected of it when I bought it, some of it a bit better than originally, thanks mainly to OS and App updates. Although it is now regarded officially obsolete, thus unsupported by Apple, and stuck on El Capitan, it is still my mainstay for personal day to day needs, and seems likely to remain so for a while.
A Mac is more about the OS and ecosystem rather than the latest hardware. Many Mac OS users keep hardware much longer than Windows users.
Do you have any data to support this?
No data, but my observation is that people do indeed keep Macs longer than other computers. In the time I have had my Mac mini, all the desktop computers at work have been replaced (and the office geek has Hackintoshed a couple!). A lot of people I know use Mac laptops approaching 10 or more years old. Many of my colleagues seem to replace their Windows laptops within four or five years.
Here is a poll I started on the age Mac Minis in use....... Just opened it again, now with change of vote allowed.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ou-had-and-used-your-oldest-mac-mini.1909082/
I'd say we would be lucky if they ever update the mini. Took them 4 years last time and many people had already given up hope for an update. Unless the mini becomes wildly popular, this could very well be the last model.
I think there is a strong market for the mini so I don't see Apple discontinuing it. Obviously it's not as popular as the MacBook or iMac but it still sells. It is popular as a server and a low price entry into the Mac. Look how long it's been since the Mac Pro has been updated and it's not discontinued. The mini and Pro aren't marketed like phones where you get one every two years. Perhaps Apple could do something similar where people do a two year finance agreement like the iPhone then once it's paid off trade it for the new one. I'm not sure if that would work though.
The current, 2018 Mac Mini seems to have won the approval of pundits, professionals, wannabes and the like, but it now comes with specs and a price that are beyond what many an average Joe or Jill really needs, or may be inclined to pay. For that reason it risks becoming a niche machine rather than one with popular appeal.
