Haswell Q2. Btw, Apple makes 70% of their profit from those toys. If anything, Macs will disappear before those toys will.Difficult to say what Apple are doing with their actual non-portable devices - AKA, desktops.
FWIW, Apple have lost me as a customer for any Ivy Bridge related products, which means I'll keep going with my iMac 2011 i& 27in and 2010 Mac Mini until late 2013, when I hope Haswell will be powering their devices.
Given Ivy Bridge CPU's are now passé, I'm looking forward to Haswell launch in first quarter 2013 and purchasing Haswell powered iMac's and Mac Mini in the final quarter of 2013 - now if only Apple can stick to these timeframes I'm happy - but cannot now justify investing in technology that has been on the market since April.
Indeed, perhaps Apple could pay more attention to its desktops and OSX, rather than making everything a iOS device - if I want a toy I'll purchase a Fisher Price device - real computing requires a desktop and its time Apple remembers this.
If you need a computer now, get one. If you don't, and can wait, then wait. Simple really
The present [non-server] Minis run dual core I5 or I7 Sandy Bridge chips.
Have their Ivy Bridge analogues appeared on the scene yet? If not, when are they due? We might just be waiting for chips.
Haswell Q2.
A Haswell iMac/Mac Mini release next may? I'll wait anyways ... Just have to rent a Mac if they don't release one this year. ;(
Guys, I had dinner w/ an Apple employee who knows release dates. He told me to wait on a Mini purchase, which I took as sometime in October. I have waited diligently since June, needing a Thunderbolt machine to drive an TB Display, which I got a good deal on for $650.
But now, after waiting so long, and Ivy is already 6 mos old, I'm thinking of buying the Intel NUC, which will have an i3 with TB, and retail < $400. I'm not wedded to OSX, especially on the desktop, since I use it mainly for working on Excel, which is better under Win7 for business use. Apple may have lost a Mini sale by waiting so long to upgrade.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/216-intel-nuc-coming-potentially-smallest-customac-yet.html
Question is: will this drive a TB Display?
Guys, I had dinner w/ an Apple employee who knows release dates.
If you need a computer now, get one. If you don't, and can wait, then wait. Simple really