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

I'm starting to think the new Mini will be pocket-sized, fan-less, and run on ARM. It's 'important' because it will be first to test market reaction to OS X on ARM.

That's also why there's been no update in going on 4 years. Make users desperate enough to give the ARM Mini a fair shot, and allow the A-series chips to become so much faster than the old Mini that the ARM model can boast a big performance advantage.
 
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DevNull0 said:
The thing is, a *lot* of people will consider mac dead at that point and reluctantly move on. Do you really think there will be enough people to justify an A12 mac ore are those the people who may as well just buy an iPP?

Personally, I have no use for a machine that can't run x64 binaries fast. But then I use my mac for a lot more than posting iPhone snapshots to instagram.
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Mac will be dead? Are you sure about that?
 
I would love to know what’s in Tim Cook's mind. First neglect the computers for years and seeing all the creative pro's migrating to powerfull HP workstations. Same with the MacBook Pro and Mac mini. Then you say that iPads are the future and suggest by your behavior that Apple is going out of computers...
Still charging full prices for years old technology and then you expect everybody will buy a Mac when there is finally getting something out that pipeline.

Tim Cook are you really thinking customers will put their money and trust ever in Apple Pro computers again? :eek:

You really think you make a home run after neglecting your customers for that long?

Maybe I’m to dumb to understand o_O
 
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The "new" Mac Mini will be refurbished iPhones with busted/missing screens.

I joke, but, they're fast enough to act as a Mac Mini Server replacement; even have enough flash storage if you use the 256G versions. Just need to remove iOS and put a port of macOS (or Linux) on it. And create a USB-Lightning hub for external storage/gigabyte ethernet.
 
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nt5672 said:
It has not been for the last 3 years. So why would we believe that now?
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Because the CEO said it... why wouldn’t you believe when the CEO declares it? You really think he’d lie? He’d be out of a job if he was found to be lying. Stock information fraud.
 
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Apple has fallen behind the development curve a lot when they are having to promote products that won't even be introduced for another year. Mac Pro and Mac Mini? Don't abandon us yet, great things are coming.

I understand focusing resources on the most profitable products, but I've got a feeling both the Pro and the Mini will go the way of the iPod. The iMac and the Apple TV will be eventually be "good enough" to supplant them and the niche product lines will just be discontinued.
 
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The cylindrical Mac Pro design seems like it would be suitable for the Mac mini if it had more powerful consumer-grade processors. Only thing is you have to be careful not to drop things into it.
 
MacMini is a home hub.

Question is what feature will it add, or will it combine with AppleTV / AirportExtreme / TimeCapsule?

For now revenue is good, competitors sell these similar devices separately, and Apple lacks any special-sauce feature to annouce a merger of these product lines.

I would expect something in 3 years, after debut of HomePod device, firming of Music platform, and better progress on HomeKit devices and platform. Just my two cents.
 
DevNull0 said:
Timmy and the stooges have been saying Mac Pro is an important part of their lineup for years. We're now coming up on the 4th anniversary of the mac trashcan edition which itself was a huge disappointment that the fanbois were insisting was just a beacon of what Apple had in store.

Can't innovate Phil Shiller's ass? I think we've got enough hindsight now to see how innovate Apple was on that mac pro line.
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Not to mention Phil proudly declaring something along the lines of ‘this is the design of the Mac Pro for the next decade’...
 
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The annoying thing is the Mac Mini would have been a lot better positioned if Apple had refreshed it with Broadwell in 2015. That would have been a minor update without requiring much development effort compared to Haswell, but Broadwell brings a much more modern IGP, in particular OpenCL 2.0 support (useful when the Metal compute equivalent takes advantage of it) and native 16-bit compute which is important for machine learning. A Broadwell Mac Mini would be slower compared to Skylake and Kaby Lake, but would be fairly feature complete so would have aged better than the current Haswell Mac Mini.
 
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Yay! Basically the same response he gives on anything. I doubt the mac pro is coming in 2018 ..maybe a brief announcement at the tail end of the year with a release date well into 2019. Maybe the mac mini will be available at the end of 2018 though.
 
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I wonder if at some point the current Mac mini won't support the current macOS. The latest mini is basically 2012 hardware, so it's already cutting it close.
 
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:

Dezlboy said:
I wrote Tim Cook two days ago requesting release of new Mac mini. (Honest) Stated my Early 2009 isn’t doing the job.

I’ll let you all know what he says in his reply. :cool:
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My guess is that the new Mac Mini will be released in December along with the iMac Pro, as high and low contrast points.
 
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