This is hardware support - Apple won't service it if something fails. OS / software support is different and can continue after hardware support is dropped.
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Apple Classifies 2011 Mac Mini as Obsolete
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I wonder if Apple would ever take the motherboard from the retina MacBook, take off the screen & keyboard, and sell it as a Mac Nano? Not saying that I'm for or against. Just honestly wondering.
Apple's entire product line is obsolete
indeed. the late 2012 i7 quad-core is still a very capable machine. I'm using one (with 16 gigs of ram and ssd) as my main computer and I never feel the need for a newer mac. it's a fantastic little machine.
If Apple makes a Mac Mini on par with the 2012, I will finally move away from iMacs. I may not like Apple’s brass and other things lately, but the Mini is the Mac that would probably keep me around (especially if I can continue to use the iMac as a display.)
It is disappointing to see the repairable machines becoming obsolete.
I was on the same boat and recently realized 2013 Mac Pro is the best alternative. BH have them on sale for 1899
2013 Mac Pro as well.
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Apple doesn't care. Vote with your wallet and don't buy their products. Hit them where it hurts.
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Gee paul, I have one too, I guess I need to get the sledgehammer out and destroy it today because Apple says is obsolete....I guess same goes for my car that is over 5 years old....sledghammer for my Camaro too.
So did many forum members creativity in posting. Get over it.
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Courage...
This announcement, and everything else related to the Mac mini. It's simply no longer being viewed as a priority for Apple, and has been that way since 2013.
It’s very hard to take Tim Cook seriously again after those comments. He takes speaking empty rhetoric to levels not seen or heard before. I don’t think he realises how unattractive that kind of language is.
The Mac Mini should’ve been one of the easiest to upgrade. Apple and especially Tim Cook’s Apple simply don’t want a value budget headless Mac.
The Mac Mini should’ve been one of the easiest to upgrade. Apple and especially Tim Cook’s Apple simply don’t want a value budget headless Mac.
True. But on the other hand, Apple should have delayed the 2011 Mini's "obsolete" status until they had released a current (2017-2018) replacement product in place. That would have been the decent thing to do, no?
You take this machine, you update the internals, you make it space gray to make it more “stylish” and you sell it as the desktop computer for 95% of use case scenarios. With improvements to efficiency of internals you could also make it much smaller. This is not rocket science folks.
According to Apple if your computer is over 5 years old, It's really sad, it really is.
That was the moment I started to truly hate Schiller. That smugness and arrogance. Especially, considering the pathetic/neglected state Mac was in at the time (and since then it has gotten only worse).
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I think the Mini and the Mac Pro are going to be discontinued eventually. They are "specialized" products that are sold in numbers that, given Apple's massive production quantities, are essentially rounding errors. Not trying to be flippant here because I know people love these products, but to me, that's the reality.
As for the iMac, that got updated in June, and the new iMac Pro will be coming out in a few weeks. IMHO, the new iMac Pro will be the replacement for the Mac Pro.
As for displays, Apple is out of that game, just like they are now out of the router business and the printer business (the latter dates me because I fondly remember the Apple LaserWriter series
). Third parties can make these peripherals with excellent quality, so Apple doesn't really need to anymore.
I think the Mini and the Mac Pro are going to be discontinued eventually. They are "specialized" products that are sold in numbers that, given Apple's production numbers, are essentially rounding errors. Not trying to be flippant here because I know people love these products, but to me, that's the reality.
As for the iMac, that got updated in June, and the new iMac Pro will be coming out in a few weeks. IMHO, the new iMac Pro will be the replacement for the Mac Pro.
As for displays, Apple is out of that game, just like they are now out of the router business and the printer business (the latter dates me because I fondly remember the Apple LaserWriter series
One of the reasons I refuse to get rid of my now obsolete Mac Pro is that there is no Mac model where you can put in your own DVD collection that you purchased and make a digital copy of it, which is totally legal. They've just made it technically impossible by removing the media drives from everything. I guess the Mac Mini was just too ideal for this.
Why should I have to rebuy all my movies with digital copies from Apple in sometimes lower quality?
No one has ever quite explained this to me to make any sense. I refuse to comply. It reminds me of the infamous Apple 1984 commercial about Macintosh.
When you put up restrictions, you just induce and help pirating.
I would love to see a Mac Mini with a Blu-Ray player, but that'll never happen. Too much "Bag O' Hurt" as Steve Jobs famously said. So I'll just find another way.
Apple is slowly driving me away. I can't lie.
Did someone at Apple drag into the trash the master files for production of the whole Mac line up?
Updates are slower and less substantial each year.
Apple is on the go slow, and it's a disgrace.
New Macs now that make us go
Updates are slower and less substantial each year.
Apple is on the go slow, and it's a disgrace.
New Macs now that make us go
i have the late 2012 version which has both quad core and usb3. And certainly don't agree with the comment about the quad core. I guess mine still has support not that I have ever needed it.
Interesting how this "Obsolete" Mac Mini 2011 beats a 2016 Macbook in single thread performance:
Don't be fooled guys, Apple loves to make fun of 5-year old machines even though they may be perfectly fine, it's a shame.
Don't be fooled guys, Apple loves to make fun of 5-year old machines even though they may be perfectly fine, it's a shame.