The point that you can carry away is that the mini is still alive. If the earlier rumors of a $799 price point for an entry level MacBook had been true then I would not have been surprised to see the mini disappear.
The fact that the mini is still there means that at a later date there will be either a bump of the specs or it will be dropped for some other form factor such as the rumored hybrid between the mini and the apple TV.
A spec bump for the mini is an easy & cheap thing for Apple. So possibly that will be an update that shows up one of these Tuesdays.
Having said that I can understand your pain in waiting. I hung out waiting for something like that for the mini for months until I gave up and bought an iMac.