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Mac Mini End Of Life?

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dwl017 said:
I still stand behind it, shut up and buy something else! oh my bad his holiness lord Jobs has not given his flock any other choices. "Mini - iMac - Pro" he sure is looking out for you Cave Man. One low end model, one all in one and one over priced feels a bit like the old Soviet Union.
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Apple/Jobs is not required to provide all or even any of the choices that you or I may want. They are merely required to make a profit for the shareholders of the company. They have decided that with the resources available, and in these market conditions, a new headless Mac is a poor choice at this time.

I have a post here...
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/6002223/
.... that explains my reasoning why I believe we won't see a mid-tower.

If you don't like Apple's decision, don't buy a Mac. Or, buy some Apple shares and go to a shareholder meeting, where - as a shareholder - you are allowed to tell Jobs and the board what you think. Not actually very USSR at all. Now, if you'll excuse me I have a Beatles album to find and play. One of the best opening chords ever.

ps I've never linked to post like this before, if this is the wrong way to do it will someone let me know? Thanks.
 
I agree that there is a hole in the Mac lineup. My need is for a tower that I can get inside easily like my older Macs. A Mac Pro is overkill for me, so I built a Hackintosh like Cave Man and others. It works very well for me. Even my older Macs work quite well yet.
 
Is it just me, or does this Dell Studio Hybrid look a little like a giant iPod laying sideways???

Also, based on the specs of this thing, Apple need not rush to update the Mini any time soon. Maybe by next June?
 
snberk103 said:
Apple/Jobs is not required to provide all or even any of the choices that you or I may want. They are merely required to make a profit for the shareholders of the company.
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While that is true as far as written laws go, any company that wants to do business has a higher level obligation to please the customer. The shareholder would not exist if the customer did not already exist.

The obvious retort is that Apple is doing pretty damn well these days, so it would seem that they must be satisfying a lot of customers. 100% true. But they can do better.

To me, the most obvious opportunity to do better is to deliver what is truly "the computer for the rest of us". I don't care if it is along the lines of the mini, macbook, imac or something new, but I don't feel like any of the current products quite fit that bill. The only thing that keeps a redesigned mini or a newly introduced xmac from being the best candidate for that role is Apple's focus on portable devices.

I want to buy a redesigned mini or an xmac, but I suspect I will wake up one day, read Macrumors and discover that Apple has announced a new, portable device that could be the next Macbook and decide to throw my money that way instead of waiting for a new desktop model. I give up -- Steve, you win.
 
andyr2120 said:
I want to buy a redesigned mini or an xmac, but I suspect I will wake up one day, read Macrumors and discover that Apple has announced a new, portable device that could be the next Macbook and decide to throw my money that way instead of waiting for a new desktop model. I give up -- Steve, you win.
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I was almost there, because I had decided to buy a Mac Pro instead of waiting for a mid tower. Then I decided to build a Hackintosh, more for the challenge, but it turned out so well, that it fullfills my need for a mid tower.
 
I'll wait. I can wait. I have to wait. I need to wait. Oh, wait, how long I have to wait for an update?

Till 5th september, i have to wait only 11 days. That's not that much, or what do you think?
 
zioxide said:
where the **** are you going to fit anything?

you couldn't fit a hard drive, memory, or a processor in that thing.

only an optical drive.


THE MINI CAN'T GET ANY SMALLER.
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Yea, and noone will ever need more than 640 Kb of Ram...
 
opeter said:
I'll wait. I can wait. I have to wait. I need to wait. Oh, wait, how long I have to wait for an update?

Till 5th september, i have to wait only 11 days. That's not that much, or what do you think?
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By mid November, after all MacBooks have been updated. Guaranteed. ;)
 
Cave Man said:
Well, lookie here. That T5750 in the Dell Studio Hybrid scores a 2268 at best, while the T7200 Mac Mini scores a 2591 on average. Go ahead, buy that Dell. It'll suit you well.
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Do you know which CPU model/number is in my 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo Mac mini? I did order the Dell Studio Hybrid with that T5750, thinking I'd swap CPUs with the "slower one" in my Mac mini. Did I make a mistake, should have I kept the even slower T2390 in the Dell? :confused:
 
Yvan256 said:
Do you know which CPU model/number is in my 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo Mac mini? I did order the Dell Studio Hybrid with that T5750, thinking I'd swap CPUs with the "slower one" in my Mac mini. Did I make a mistake, should have I kept the even slower T2390 in the Dell? :confused:
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The C2D 1.83Ghz chip is a T5600. It is not pin compatible with the T5750.
 
Cave Man said:
Besides, if you have an xgrid-aware app, you could connect hundreds of Minis by firewire or ethernet and do distributed computing inside OS X. Can Windows Anything (Tm) do that?
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There is an java XGrid client around that you could use over Ethernet, or install Linux and then compile & install the Linux version. :p ;) :D
 
bombjack said:
Yea, and noone will ever need more than 640 Kb of Ram...
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Continuing the historical regression:

"All of the calculations that will ever be needed in this country can be done on the three digital computers now being built - one in Cambridge, one in Teddington, and one in Manchester. No one else will ever need machines of their own or will be able to afford to buy them."
- Cambridge mathematician Douglas Hartree, circa 1951 (a similar quote is often mis-attributed to Thomas Watson, 1st president of IBM)

"What use could this company make of an electric toy?"
-William Orton, President of Western Union, when offered the telephone for $100,000 in 1876.

"An interesting novelty, but the telephone has no commercial application."
-J. Pierpont Morgan, around the same time.
 
Eric S. said:
Continuing the historical regression:
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the coin:

"Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within 10 years." -- Alex Lewyt, quoted in the New York Times, 1955.

In the 1950s, the Ford Motor Company performed a feasibility study and concluded that both the technology and market supported a flying car.
 
Yvan256 said:
So.... new Mac mini or Mac nano replacement on september 9th? :D
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September 2nd - bump prior to the 9th? or after? More likely to do a refresh not on the same day as a iPod refresh? Can't get the full historic dates to hand yet.
 
There was a March rumor entry saying an insider related how the mini is being completely re-engineered and will be re-released sometime with upped specs.

If the up doesn't come in September it will come in January.
 
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