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2016 Mini landing date

slayerizer said:
everyone says there are no mini leaks but there was something that came out about the mini early 2016.. I think it was in the videos that toured Apple's 'semi-secret labs'. I think there were some new mac mini boards being tested in that location.
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Apple try harder to keep Mini updates a secret than any other of their computer. That's why nothing slips out.
 
Crosscreek said:
I do remember they were running special Minis to test something but I can't remember either.

I've given up hope for any meaningful update but it would be nice if Apple would take care to provide one. Sure wish they never soldered Ram and eliminated the server edition. My hack is my favorite new toy but I would like to have a shiny new server from Apple.

I do agree that the A series will be the choice of Apple for future lower tier products.

They are so IOS any more I losing faith with the future of Apple macOS computers.
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I had hack's and did one a few months agon on my current desktop, but I removed it. I was considering a dual xeon (with cheap QS on ebay) but I get tired of finding work around. Windows 10 is nice. I'm dual booting Linux/Windows but find that I'm often on Windows for Steam & game performance. Now that the Affinity suite is coming to Windows, I think I will stick to that and be done. I'm on the edge of ordering a gtx1080 + gtx1070. No more waiting for Apple to sell me something overpriced. I may still order my dual xeon setup (Linux & kvm or Windows/HyperV). I have a few machines for my homelab.

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slayerizer said:
I had hack's and did one a few months agon on my current desktop, but I removed it. I was considering a dual xeon (with cheap QS on ebay) but I get tired of finding work around. Windows 10 is nice. I'm dual booting Linux/Windows but find that I'm often on Windows for Steam & game performance. Now that the Affinity suite is coming to Windows, I think I will stick to that and be done. I'm on the edge of ordering a gtx1080 + gtx1070. No more waiting for Apple to sell me something overpriced. I may still order my dual xeon setup (Linux & kvm or Windows/HyperV). I have a few machines for my homelab.

🙂
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I have everything working fine in OS X and it works as well ass any Mac I've owned but I do use the Windows 10 boot most of the day. When I get the graphics card when the stock gets replenished and the prices com down off their inflated prices, I will be spending most of my time their also. I really don't care about OS X except its better at a few apps but not much better. I have Linux mounted also and my original plan was a dual boot Linux/Windows machine but after I tried the hack of OS X it ran so well I decide to leave it on. I could easily get by without it.😉
 
Crosscreek said:
I have everything working fine in OS X and it works as well ass any Mac I've owned but I do use the Windows 10 boot most of the day. When I get the graphics card when the stock gets replenished and the prices com down off their inflated prices, I will be spending most of my time their also. I really don't care about OS X except its better at a few apps but not much better. I have Linux mounted also and my original plan was a dual boot Linux/Windows machine but after I tried the hack of OS X it ran so well I decide to leave it on. I could easily get by without it.😉
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mines were running well, just time consuming to setup, then repeat each time there is a new major upgrade. I'm just tired of doing this when I can just Windows and get optimal drivers performance. I'm really happy to have an Ubuntu stack within Windows (since anniversary edition). It works very well.
 
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slayerizer said:
mines were running well, just time consuming to setup, then repeat each time there is a new major upgrade. I'm just tired of doing this when I can just Windows and get optimal drivers performance. I'm really happy to have an Ubuntu stack within Windows (since anniversary edition). It works very well.
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For me the biggest annoyance was using a USB wireless connector which required its own horrible software to configure almost daily. It was just a hassle as I didn't want cables for ethernet but to use wifi only. That to me was the biggest drawback from way back in uh 2011? Is it really that long? LOL
 
dogslobber said:
For me the biggest annoyance was using a USB wireless connector which required its own horrible software to configure almost daily. It was just a hassle as I didn't want cables for ethernet but to use wifi only. That to me was the biggest drawback from way back in uh 2011? Is it really that long? LOL
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I use an Apple WIFI bluetooth card from a MacBook with full continuity and messaging. It took a while to figure out how to extract the drivers out of bootcamp for the Windows side but now booth OS X and Windows runs great off the card.

http://www.osxwifi.com/apple-broadc...-bluetooth-4-0-with-adapter-for-pc-hackintosh
 
Crosscreek said:
I use an Apple WIFI bluetooth card from a MacBook with full continuity and messaging. It took a while to figure out how to extract the drivers out of bootcamp for the Windows side but now booth OS X and Windows runs great off the card.

http://www.osxwifi.com/apple-broadc...-bluetooth-4-0-with-adapter-for-pc-hackintosh
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good find.. a few cheaper ones are also available on ebay (around 12-30$). I personally prefer to use the LAN but I don't have bluetooth, so that would have helped. My NIC was working out of the box and when you use a USB DAC, it's also working without drivers. I'm not sure if my USB3 were working.. I don't recall.

Now that I want to upgrade to a 1080/1070, that would be another hard stop, to redo a hack. I still have my rMBP 2013 for development and I have a MacOS vm under Windows (Vmware workstation) to test my software with older mac release.
 
slayerizer said:
good find.. a few cheaper ones are also available on ebay (around 12-30$). I personally prefer to use the LAN but I don't have bluetooth, so that would have helped. My NIC was working out of the box and when you use a USB DAC, it's also working without drivers. I'm not sure if my USB3 were working.. I don't recall.

Now that I want to upgrade to a 1080/1070, that would be another hard stop, to redo a hack. I still have my rMBP 2013 for development and I have a MacOS vm under Windows (Vmware workstation) to test my software with older mac release.
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USB 3 and my TypeC port on my mobo also work fine. Actually every thing works just like a regular iMac.

I'm also waiting on Nvidia to release web drivers for OS X for the 1060/1070 before I buy a card. So little supply right now and it will probably be a few months before the prices com down to MSRP.

I'm itchen like addict for the GPU. 🙂
 
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Crosscreek said:
USB 3 and my TypeC port on my mobo also work fine. Actually every thing works just like a regular iMac.

I'm also waiting on Nvidia to release web drivers for OS X for the 1060/1070 before I buy a card. So little supply right now and it will probably be a few months before the prices com down to MSRP.

I'm itchen like addict for the GPU. 🙂
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I think I will also wait. There are some big titles coming out this year.
 
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grcar said:
Then they buried Minnehaha;
In the snow a grave they made her
In the forest deep and darksome
Underneath the moaning hemlocks;
Clothed her in her richest garments
Wrapped her in her robes of ermine,
Covered her with snow, like ermine;
Thus they buried Minnehaha.
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Nice one - I think Minnehaha must be what they say at Apple when someone clicks Buy online. 😉
 
amegicfox said:
2012 mac mini: 4 cores, upgradable RAM and HD
2014 mac mini: 2 cores, soldered RAM, upgradable HD
2016 mac mini: 1 core soldered RAM, soldered HD

you go Timmy, show 'em how you make money !!!!
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They hard a Core Solo way back in 2006!
 
ActionableMango said:
Mac sales are up relative to the decline of WinPC sales and they are up for the quarter relative to last quarter's Mac sales.

Apparently we are a bunch of chumps that will buy anything, old model or not.
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Indeed, the 3 Mac Minis we run at home and in office are of 2007, 2010 and 2011 vintage.

The 2007 Mac Mini (which was recently upgraded to Windows 7 - thank you Microsoft for still supporting 10yr old Mac hardware with OS updates!) will eventually have be replaced. If you plan on using a system for 5+ years, you can very well justify to purchase a 2 year "old" model.

What has been important, though, for the longevity of "our" Mac Minis was the possibility to upgrade RAM and -- more recently -- replace the (slow) stock HD by SSD.
 
hawkeye_a said:
The scarcity of rumors regarding Mac hardware is telling. The only thing we have heard of lately is a new MBP(OLED, TouchID). Nothing about new/updated iMacs, MacPros or MacMinis.

The silence is troubling.
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When you put it that way… sounds sadly too similar to the way of the iPod.

Maybe the plan really is for the Mac line to be 'optimised' or 'rationalised' into one or maybe two products (perhaps not even lines, but maybe a desktop 'Mac' and - eventually - a laptop 'MacBook' where there are no models to choose from, and at some later point not even options or upgrades to select from).

…kind of like an endpoint being an inverse of the situation as it was when the iPhone was introduced / early on in the life of iPhone (i.e. then, there was only one iPhone and lots of Macs).

Has anyone actually emailed Tim or Phil to ask what's up with the Mac? I guess there's a chance they'll respond - there is precedent…
 
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@orbital~debris
It could very well be the waxing and waning of platforms over time. And It seems like the Mac could be heading down the path of the iPod at a slower pace.

iOS devices make u upwards of ~66% of Apple's revenue/profit (i can recall the exact numbers), and it has been growing over the past decade, which means that the portion earned by Macs has been relatively shrinking.

I remember back in the day when the iPod came out, Apple was trying to capitalize on the 'halo effect' and so kept their Macs up-to-date and competitive. (maybe cause the Mac was a much larger portion of their bottom line back then?). That doesnt seem to be part of their plan these days. (A missed business opportunity if you ask me)

The above is all just one big excuse for them to let the Mac line languish.

Quite frankly, at the very least, instead of major hardware design refreshes (MacPro), they could have instead retained form factors (unibody MBPs tower Mac Pro, etc) and just kept the CPU, GPU, RAM, SSD, prices up to date. Small iterative steps regularly. IMHO

I really wonder how much their negligence of Mac hardware is effecting their sales.
 
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