Apple May Be Working on 8K Display and New High-End Mac Mini

[SteveW928]

I always said how the cylindrical Mac Pro could very well have been - instead - an ultra high-end Mac Mini.

Agreed. The ideal machine for me would be something along the lines of cylinder Mac Pro with the internals of a mid tier iMac. I don't need EEC or Xenon processors, but I do need reasonable GPU power (which I could now/soon get via TB3) and strong CPU performance in a quiet/silent package. A cylinder Mac with an i7 quad-core and mid-range desktop GPU equivalent would be perfect.

There just isn't anything on the market like that unless you're willing to have a single-use display with it (iMac) or have a pretty big budget (to over-kill on the machine).

 

[0924487]

What we need is a $500 Mac Mini that comes with an SSD.

Yes, running Intel Pentium M 0.9MHz with HD graphics 2000, support one monitor of 1280 by 800 resolution at 60fps, 2Gb of DDR2 RAM, 64Gb of NAND SATA2 SSD space.

 

[SteveW928]

Yes, running Intel Pentium M 0.9MHz with HD graphics 2000, support one monitor of 1280 by 800 resolution at 60fps, 2Gb of DDR2 RAM, 64Gb of NAND SATA2 SSD space.

Good idea. It should come in a 'server' build like you've outlined, as well as a mini, headless, mid-range machine for people who don't want the iMac screen.

But, even better, at least for me, would be putting iMac stuff in the cylinder design (assuming the next Mac Pro is going to be different than the cylinder, which it seems it well. No reason to let all that development go to waste!).

 

[webraider72]

"I can add that Apple told me it's out of standalone display biz." — Nilay Patel, The Verge

https://twitter.com/reckless/status/792069952916197376



Dell's 8K display has 2 x DisplayPort 1.4.

Regardless Apple has exited and re-entered markets before. They could have told you the truth for yesterday and this could be the truth for tomorrow...