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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Mac Mini Will Be 'Important Part' of Future Product Lineup

nutmac said:
Great!
Unusually long delay suggests Mac mini is getting a major redesign.
Perhaps Mac mini will be released alongside new Mac Pro.
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Yes, based on Apple's current design trend, I can imagine what the new Mac mini will look like -- "PRO" badge, half-inch thick, Xeon 1.4 GHz processor, 8gb RAM (not upgradable), 128gb SSD (not upgradable), two USB-C ports, case welded shut, and only $5,000.
 
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I love the Mac Mini! I have a 2014 mini under my desk as a server. It used to be my main machine. If a "better mini" existed, I would have bought that instead of this iMac 27".

Bare minimum my "main machine" needs a real gpu though. Not intel integrated.
 
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HJM.NL said:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...normous-amount-on-macs-of-the-future.1704705/

Seems like he’s lying because he said the same things 3 years ago. If a computer company with the resources of Apple can’t come up with something in 3 years, I doubt if it’s worth selling computers.

The whole computer line is the same design for how long?

See the link... he made that same statement about computers three years ago. How trustworthy :rolleyes:
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Great find. The fact is, he just doesn't have any credibility on this issue anymore. If he said "we're going to release x product at y time," I'd believe him. But "great pipeline," "important to us," "in our DNA," etc just don't mean anything. They aren't exactly "lies," but they have ambiguous meaning that promises nothing.
 
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Question... Maybe stupid one.
Can I hook up a Mac Mini unto my tv and use my tv as a monitor?
 
They've been waiting for the transition to ARM to start. It'll get an A11, be out next year and stomp all over the new ARM Windows notebooks in benchmarks. <reckless speculation on my part>
 
This is great. Unfortunately I need one yesterday as my xserve is running on fumes and I need time to get things configured and moved before the "cloud" service I use stops supporting the version of software I have to run on it. So unless there's a Halloween Surprise in store, I'm getting at least one more new old one (or old new one?). :mad:
 
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This is very exciting news!

Though I do wish Apple would lower prices of their Macs when they haven’t bothered to update their internals.
 
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I was just playing with the Apple configurator for the Mac Mini: with i7, 16 RAM and SSD. I know it's older generation intel but how bad would that Mac be? Sounds like it would be reasonably capable?
 
arkitect said:
Personally, I doubt the sincerity of his response.

If he had said, yeah, the Mini has been neglected and will be updated in the future, I might have swallowed it.

But all the Oh, we Luuurve the Mini too. The Corporate speak… Our customers have found so many creative and interesting uses for Mac Mini. What is that about? It's a bloody computer. Of course we find creative uses for it.

Then playing coy with the While it is not time to share any details, we do plan…
Of course now is not the time. Because there is no damn update in the pipeline.

The whole response smacks of insincerity.

I'll believe it when I see the Mac Mini updated…
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Lol! No details because you have secret knowledge that Tim’s lying about the pipeline, not because Apple doesn’t do detailed product reveals to a random customer’s desperate email. Lmao!
redheeler said:
After two years a subpar update with soldered RAM and no quad-core processors is delivered, then three years go by with none at all, so I am skeptical of the usual corporate jargon. Actions speak louder than words, and Apple has not treated the Mac mini like a product with importance since 2012.
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Let’s make a date to return here in 4Q2018. I’m betting on the Mac.
 
How hard can it be to just reconfigure things and reuse the trashcan Mac Pro for the new mini - since it doesn't need to be as up-gradable as the Pro - and introduce a completely new design for the Mac Pro.

Love my 2012 mini. Still going strong, but converting mkvs to HEVC takes a lot longer than I'd like.
 
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Marco Klobas said:
Good news.

Let we see what does Apple have up its sleeve for the 2018.

Nice to see Tim Cook replying to an Apple user. I remember that another user wrote to Tim for the same reason just a few days ago in this Mac Mini related thread:
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Yes, definitely. Hundreds or thousands of users writing to Cook (or using feedback@apple.com) are infinitely more productive and effective than just bitching on a forum.

The group contacting Apple directly is more generally representative of the actual population. The loudest-mouthed forum whiners sometimes don’t even own the product in question, they’re just Apple bashers in general.

They’re more interested in getting a reaction out of Apple fans here at MR than improving the product. Those screaming about how crappy and “non-pro” MacBook Pro are because they only support 16 GB of RAM—while gushing and heaping praise on the latest surface book—neatly fit this description.
 
It's fine if they create a higher-end Mini, but they MUST keep an updated model at $499. It would be a shame if they handle the Mini pricing the same way they have handled the MBP and iPhone segment pricing.
 
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Sasparilla said:
They've been waiting for the transition to ARM to start. It'll get an A11, be out next year and stomp all over the new ARM Windows notebooks in benchmarks. <reckless speculation on my part>
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Ermm no, because ARM Windows notebooks will run Windows (AKA win32) programs via an Intel x86 emulation layer. An A11 device (be it an iPhone, iPad or "gasp" Mac Mini) will not even run macOS programs let alone Windows apps so please enlighten me how they are going to "stomp all over the new ARM Windows notebooks"?
 
Given how little the Intel Chips have changed, save for graphics, there hasn't been a need to update. Hopefully, the fall refresh will be the impetus for an updated mini, with USB-C/Thunderbolt3, but without removing the HDMI port, to make thing easy for the BYODKM machine.
 
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bitfactory said:
It's fine if they create a higher-end Mini, but they MUST keep an updated model at $499. It would be a shame if they handle the Mini pricing the same way they have handled the MBP and iPhone segment pricing.
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They must? If you want to run OSX, where else are you going to go if they don't. This is what happens when you become locked into one vendor. You are at their mercy completely.

There are a number of people in this thread that said, "this is great news, I wanted to buy a mini but ended up getting an iMac". So do you think Apple has incentive to upgrade the Mini? IF, they ever upgrade it, I predict they will cripple it to the point that a lot of people using them today won't be happy.

This is one of the many reasons why I've vacated the Apple ecosystem. A new Mini is one product that I might actually buy IF they upgrade it and its a real upgrade at the current price. Would be nice to keep a toe in there.
 
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