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I am hoping it's a new line of Pro ACDs with 30 bit panels. With 24" and 30" prices starting at $1,999.
We can all dream.
How about this one?
Hell, I'd buy that!
In the first image they forgot to remove the LCD when they photoshopped it
Could just be the lid to make accessing the innards more easy because we know Apple loves to make it easy for users to fix.
mini sizing;
"Why not buy the Mac Book and have the best of both worlds?"
But it's not the best of both worlds. Laptops have inferior keyboards, inferior pointing devices, inferior displays, and vastly, hugely inferior hard drives, a weakness the mini shares. And you have to pay for an unneeded battery to boot.
There is an existing mini hard hack to bring the internal Sata port out to an external drive. If I was actually using mine outside the stereo cabinet I probably would do it. I'm not CPU bound, which is why I still have my dual processor Quicksilver 2002 as my main machine.
The mini (as a desktop) could expand to 7.7" by 7.7" by 7.7" (cube II?) and fit very well, as well as matching the Time Capsule. (Time Capsule is about 1.5", so you could even arrange for the stack to could come out to 7.7".) In fact, put an Esata port on both and you have a great home server system. Even Firewire 800 would be fast enough for most current hard drives.
Buy the way; some of you are driving me crazy;
Shinny
another term for shin : : he loved to shinny up that tree.
Shiny
reflecting light, typically because very clean or polished
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"Why not buy the Mac Book and have the best of both worlds?"
But it's not the best of both worlds. Laptops have inferior keyboards, inferior pointing devices, inferior displays, and vastly, hugely inferior hard drives, a weakness the mini shares. And you have to pay for an unneeded battery to boot.
There is an existing mini hard hack to bring the internal Sata port out to an external drive. If I was actually using mine outside the stereo cabinet I probably would do it. I'm not CPU bound, which is why I still have my dual processor Quicksilver 2002 as my main machine.
The mini (as a desktop) could expand to 7.7" by 7.7" by 7.7" (cube II?) and fit very well, as well as matching the Time Capsule. (Time Capsule is about 1.5", so you could even arrange for the stack to could come out to 7.7".) In fact, put an Esata port on both and you have a great home server system. Even Firewire 800 would be fast enough for most current hard drives.
Buy the way; some of you are driving me crazy;
Shinny
another term for shin : : he loved to shinny up that tree.
Shiny
reflecting light, typically because very clean or polished
Definitions available from Applications/Dictionary.
You forgot to take out the Firewire and Ethernet Ports....
He... didn't forget to take out FireWire.
Same here.
You forgot to take out the Firewire and Ethernet Ports....
(*runs and hides....*)
As well as the magsafe power adaptor, and the rubber feet at the bottom.
LOL...
Leave it up to an average "Joe" like me to try to plug in a Firewire drive and wonder - WHERE DO YOU PLUG THE HDMI CABLE IN?
Curious - has anyone ever considered the fact that Apple could keep the *same* form factor for the Mac mini, and just upgrade the internals and ports on the back?
Not that I think that's what Apple would do, but I find the current design better than most of the mockups floating around here...
Not that I think that's what Apple would do, but I find the current design better than most of the mockups floating around here...
No, I agree with that, I'm guessing we'll see a colour change (white top to black glass/glossy top), bumped specs, but that's about it. I can't see apple spending alot of money on R&D for the Mac Mini...
I love how they think people will believe this because it's taken from the Apple website. It's just a scrunched pic of the new MB.
If you go to the gallery you can tell it's the side view pic.
I agree that with the new one (assuming there is one) there will be a color change to the black.
If you go to the gallery you can tell it's the side view pic.
I agree that with the new one (assuming there is one) there will be a color change to the black.
Yes!
It could look like the Beige G3 for all I care but it would be nice to have a mini tower that isn't made from laptop parts, with actual quad core processors and such.
What Apple should do is obviously upgade the internals of the mini and keep them at their $599 and $799 price points. Then offer a low end Mac Pro at $1299. That would satisify those mid-tower complaints and fill that void.
Neither machine needs any real physical changes besides perhaps some black and glass changes to make them fall in line with the other macs.
Neither machine needs any real physical changes besides perhaps some black and glass changes to make them fall in line with the other macs.
I disagree. I think the Mac Pro is much too large. It was designed for very hot G5 processors. A nice, mid Mac could be made that doesn't take up half of your apartment like the Mac Pro, but would allow for a couple of hard drives, a PCI slot or two and the normal stuff you'd expect to see in a computer.
I love the look of the beige G3. I agree on the components. I would like to see a modernized Pro style tower but with lets say the top 6 inches cut off and desktop class processors. That would be ideal.
Use your noodles people, the majority of the new Mac minis will be sold with Snow Leopard. Apple are massively invested in the new OpenCL technology, so it would be a regressive step to use an integrated (crap) graphics chipset that wouldn't be able to massively take advantage of that new technology.
It would make sense especially for the Mac mini to have the 9400M (or better) chipset to add to the processing power that is weaker than the iMac in order to bolster it's performance.
Yes, the mini is an 'entry-level' Mac, but remember, Apple don't do 'budget' products. I don't think there is any reason to expect anything less than an nVidia graphics chipset on the new minis (if they're coming, don't want to jinx it - I'd love a new mini!!!)
It would make sense especially for the Mac mini to have the 9400M (or better) chipset to add to the processing power that is weaker than the iMac in order to bolster it's performance.
Yes, the mini is an 'entry-level' Mac, but remember, Apple don't do 'budget' products. I don't think there is any reason to expect anything less than an nVidia graphics chipset on the new minis (if they're coming, don't want to jinx it - I'd love a new mini!!!)
How about this one?
I think you mixed up your spy shots
Thats theTV
TV Tech specs
I don't see an optical drive in there... do you?
No really - what I'd love to see is a Mac Mini (or any other small Mac for that matter) with a tiny medium-resolution screen, say 7-10". I'd use this solely for playing music through external speakers using iTunes' great interface. The only way to play music today is with a MacBook or iMac (expensive and over-spec'd) or an iPod (tiny screen and no iTunes interface).
Give me a weak 9" iMac @ say $300 and I'll buy two!
PS: My first post here - Weeee!
Give me a weak 9" iMac @ say $300 and I'll buy two!
PS: My first post here - Weeee!
It reminded me of the "Sega" TreamCast.
Imagine how crazy that would be.... a Mac Mini with little pop-up LCD display. It could be Apple's answer to the NetBook crowd haha..