If i could get an imac or a Mac mini, ACD, Keyboard, mouse for the same spec and price I would get the Mac mini.
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Mac Mini End Of Life?
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It would be stupid to discontinue the mini.
They must be making some kind of money on it unlike the apple tv.
I myself have the first model and yes it still has 256mb ram in it but it works flawlessly. I still remember that when I bought it my friends when they had their first glance on it their immediate thought was 'Wow what a sexy little machine'. One of them got one too not long afterwards.
Tomorrow there will be some new kind of rumour that the imac will be discontinued as most people nowadays buy laptops.
They must be making some kind of money on it unlike the apple tv.
I myself have the first model and yes it still has 256mb ram in it but it works flawlessly. I still remember that when I bought it my friends when they had their first glance on it their immediate thought was 'Wow what a sexy little machine'. One of them got one too not long afterwards.
Tomorrow there will be some new kind of rumour that the imac will be discontinued as most people nowadays buy laptops.
Six weeks, four hundred posts later...
...and the Mini lives on.
I think it's safe to say that the rumor was at best a bit premature. To take iCube's point a bit further, EVERYTHING in the computer world is EOL, and the statute of limitations on an EOL prediction can't be more than a couple weeks for it to be credible.
...and the Mini lives on.
I think it's safe to say that the rumor was at best a bit premature. To take iCube's point a bit further, EVERYTHING in the computer world is EOL, and the statute of limitations on an EOL prediction can't be more than a couple weeks for it to be credible.
LOL.Remember! You first read about it here!
Anyway, MacMini will NOT be discontinued because it is a (almost) silent media PC! Comes with remote, and everything integrated.
To get a quiet PC similar to Mac Mini usually cost DIY (do it yourself) people more, not only in term of parts, but in terms of their time, and they will not end up with something as elegant or as useful as a MacMini.
My mini will still be kickin long after this tired thread dies.
This thread will apparently never die.
I am absolutely amazed at how long this one has been going on. I keep getting notices, and figure it should eventually stop.
My mini will still be kickin long after this tired thread dies.
Mine too I hope. Just ordered ram from crucial.
But I still want this.
As someone who is exploring the possibility of buying a replacement desktop Mac for my present desktop iMac, I'd be very interested in a Mac mini. Sure, it would be nice if it had dedicated graphics, but for what I'll be using it, it only matters it has monitor-out and memory to handle video tasks in general. I don't game.
Wow, I've read a few pages of this thread and have come across a few folks who seem to think there's room for a computer between the current mini and the iMac. Let me ask you one thing: ARE YOU FREAKING CRAZY?!
The Mini tops out at 2GHz C2D, 1GB of RAM, dual-layer DVD-Burner, and an 120GB HDD. The low-end iMac adds a cheap video card, doubles the HDD and gives you a display.
If you were going to position a unit between the two, which features would you include and which ones would you not? The crappy video card? Not even worth it. That thing is scarcely better than no graphics card. Would you plop in a bigger HDD? You can BTO a Mini with a 160GB HDD, or for the adventurous, buy a 250 from NewEgg and add it yourself for a mere $150. Lastly, you could give the mini a display, which would just make it an iMac with a small HDD and without a GPU. (Or you could simply attach a cheap 22" display, spend half the upgrade price to an iMac, and call it a day.)
Neither of these three setups would work at all. There's just too little room between the iMac and Mac Mini, even if they overlap in specs.
I think what people are trying to ask for is a headless iMac. Well, we've been begging for a headless iMac since Day 1 and the Mini is what Apple came up with. The closest thing we might ever get to a headless iMac is a mid-range tower, which probably won't happen either, but there's such a huge performance gap between the iMac and the Mac Pro that I'm ashamed for Apple. It's so glaringly obvious that they think everyone is either a pros or a basic users and that "somewhere inbetween" doesn't exist.
I've come to terms with this fact and will probably concede to buying a Mini that will only do what I want it to for a couple years and then downgrade it into my home's Media Center, hoping that in that time Apple will realize the error of their ways and release a Mid-Tower... lest I be forced to build myself a hackintosh... Not that Apple gives a rat's ass about prosumers anymore anyway. WE USED TO BE YOUR ONLY CUSTOMER BASE, APPLE! WHY DON'T YOU LOVE US ANYMORE?!?!?! WE KEPT YOU ALIVE!!!
-Clive
The Mini tops out at 2GHz C2D, 1GB of RAM, dual-layer DVD-Burner, and an 120GB HDD. The low-end iMac adds a cheap video card, doubles the HDD and gives you a display.
If you were going to position a unit between the two, which features would you include and which ones would you not? The crappy video card? Not even worth it. That thing is scarcely better than no graphics card. Would you plop in a bigger HDD? You can BTO a Mini with a 160GB HDD, or for the adventurous, buy a 250 from NewEgg and add it yourself for a mere $150. Lastly, you could give the mini a display, which would just make it an iMac with a small HDD and without a GPU. (Or you could simply attach a cheap 22" display, spend half the upgrade price to an iMac, and call it a day.)
Neither of these three setups would work at all. There's just too little room between the iMac and Mac Mini, even if they overlap in specs.
I think what people are trying to ask for is a headless iMac. Well, we've been begging for a headless iMac since Day 1 and the Mini is what Apple came up with. The closest thing we might ever get to a headless iMac is a mid-range tower, which probably won't happen either, but there's such a huge performance gap between the iMac and the Mac Pro that I'm ashamed for Apple. It's so glaringly obvious that they think everyone is either a pros or a basic users and that "somewhere inbetween" doesn't exist.
I've come to terms with this fact and will probably concede to buying a Mini that will only do what I want it to for a couple years and then downgrade it into my home's Media Center, hoping that in that time Apple will realize the error of their ways and release a Mid-Tower... lest I be forced to build myself a hackintosh... Not that Apple gives a rat's ass about prosumers anymore anyway. WE USED TO BE YOUR ONLY CUSTOMER BASE, APPLE! WHY DON'T YOU LOVE US ANYMORE?!?!?! WE KEPT YOU ALIVE!!!
-Clive
I think what you were seeing is indeed in your conclusion, not what you set out with. ie, people are looking for something under the Mac Pro, that has at least the performance of the iMac, preferably better. Slightly larger, full height drives, and a good (even optionally, great) GPU. I believe many would be willing to spend an additional $500 for something like that. That would still be half the Mac Pro cost, without the expandability and other high end features, but could outperform the iMac for those who want/need that.
I would buy that, but, if no improvements are announced to the Mini in January, I guess I will be buying another Mini, as is.
Need "Mac" sans "Pro"
Yeah, I'm not sure what it would be called, but the primary problem is size. I have a G5 Mac and it is great, but it is really big. I would love to get a mini, but want better performance without having to shell out for Apple's LCD offering in the iMac. So something that is similar to the cube in size or something that is maybe like a mac mini except two or three times as tall, with the two processors (not necessarily XEONs like in the Pro) and a dedicated GPU with at least 256MB on board would do nicely. Also, at least capable of 4GB of RAM (and preferably 8GB). I would pay $1299 for something like that. Maybe $1499 for an upgraded model. Otherwise I'll just get a MacBook Pro and hook up an external monitor and keyboard and take it on the road when I need it to. It just isn't as good a value as any of the other Mac options.
Yeah, I'm not sure what it would be called, but the primary problem is size. I have a G5 Mac and it is great, but it is really big. I would love to get a mini, but want better performance without having to shell out for Apple's LCD offering in the iMac. So something that is similar to the cube in size or something that is maybe like a mac mini except two or three times as tall, with the two processors (not necessarily XEONs like in the Pro) and a dedicated GPU with at least 256MB on board would do nicely. Also, at least capable of 4GB of RAM (and preferably 8GB). I would pay $1299 for something like that. Maybe $1499 for an upgraded model. Otherwise I'll just get a MacBook Pro and hook up an external monitor and keyboard and take it on the road when I need it to. It just isn't as good a value as any of the other Mac options.
Apple could at least update the Mini to the Santa Rosa platform
There's something less than that too they must absolutely do.
The first model they came out with had 80gb hard disk (the $599 one).
Now almost 3 years later it still has 80gb on it (the $599 one).
I mean the price for the hard disk hasn't dropped a dime since then.
Yeah, the Mini's current stats make it an embarrassing use of $600... which is part of the reason I'm reluctant to get one. Let's hope MWSF has something to say about it...
-Clive
Yeah, the Cube was really an awesome idea except for the part about costing just as much as a PowerMac and being less expandable.
I would be content with a slightly reduced-in-size Mac Pro. Cut off a couple PCIe slots, a couple HDD bays, one of the CPUs, and shrink the chassis by 50% and you'd have a solid "Cube 2.0"
-Clive
WHY? Did I stumble across this form
That toook awhile to read, my eyeballs hurt.
I just made my parents switch to mac(wasn't easy) They had a 13 year old compaq running XP! I think that mini fits into a ton of demographics here especially, older gens. My parents aren't old, but making the switch and BYODKM made it seem like a reasonable purchase.
I had my mom @ widgets. Older people love weather! It seems to be that the OS is too simple for them. I get calls on things like how do I burn a CD! I was happy to get the mini to them and have them make the switch. They think its amazing how tiny it is! I am just thinking that it most likely won't make the 14 year life-span like their pc did, but who knows!
That toook awhile to read, my eyeballs hurt.
I just made my parents switch to mac(wasn't easy) They had a 13 year old compaq running XP! I think that mini fits into a ton of demographics here especially, older gens. My parents aren't old, but making the switch and BYODKM made it seem like a reasonable purchase.
I had my mom @ widgets. Older people love weather! It seems to be that the OS is too simple for them. I get calls on things like how do I burn a CD! I was happy to get the mini to them and have them make the switch. They think its amazing how tiny it is! I am just thinking that it most likely won't make the 14 year life-span like their pc did, but who knows!
The Cube was a failure, because it was priced too high. I like your idea. A Mac Pro case, but reduced in size by 50%. An Intel Core2Duo 2.4 using desktop chips and a desktop hard drive. It could be priced at $999, and it would have a higher profit margin that the iMac. That would bring a lot of Windows users to the Mac. Then just watch the market share explode and the Apple stock to soar to $250+.
A little choice wouldn't hurt
Apple seems to be struggling a bit with consistency WRT colors. They should standardize on white, black and aluminum for all their case designs. No need to go nuts like Dell does with some of their stuff but a little choice would go a long way... then again a little choice in case size would be nice too... where the hell is the standard headless Mac /w mid/mini tower, desktop motherboard/ram/cpu/video that everyone's looking for?
Then I remember who's driving this bus. Stevo's gonna tell you what you want, what you're gonna pay and you're gonna like it. Seems to be working so far... gotta give the bstrd credit.
Apple seems to be struggling a bit with consistency WRT colors. They should standardize on white, black and aluminum for all their case designs. No need to go nuts like Dell does with some of their stuff but a little choice would go a long way... then again a little choice in case size would be nice too... where the hell is the standard headless Mac /w mid/mini tower, desktop motherboard/ram/cpu/video that everyone's looking for?
Then I remember who's driving this bus. Stevo's gonna tell you what you want, what you're gonna pay and you're gonna like it. Seems to be working so far... gotta give the bstrd credit.
How the hell did they manage to get XP running on a 486 with 8MB of RAM ?
Maybe they did this...
http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm
Everything can get smaller. The first computer took up an entire first floor; look where we are now.
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