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Mac Mini to be Discontinued?

TheDPR said:
Refurbs are up again, for the first time in a long time. Looks like they're really trying to clear out old stock. Something new is coming...I can feel it.
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I can feel it too .

I imagine your in America / Canada or somewhere because we never see refurb Mini's on the UK store ! , usually ,....... but there is one on right now , 'm stunned ....and excited ,

Not long now :D
 
Sulley Muntari said:
How many times has the Mini been declared dead but yet it's still here.
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wtb said:
I think with the new MacBook models out, they will use this design in the mini. I suspect the new mini won't have firewire.
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I agree totally Sulley - for how long was the previous thread that had come out with rumors of the Mini's imminent demise? And wtb, I am hoping that you are right on the one hand (using the design) and wrong on the other - not so much for myself, but because of the number of complaints about losing FW on the MB. Sadly I think you may be right on both. :(
 
marbles said:
I can feel it too .

I imagine your in America / Canada or somewhere because we never see refurb Mini's on the UK store ! , usually ,....... but there is one on right now , 'm stunned ....and excited ,

Not long now :D
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Ditto for Singapore. At the moment there is the old MBA (both of them), 17" MBP and the white MB. Seems we don't have any iMac's or Mini's at the moment... Maybe it's a sign? :D
 
k2spitfire88 said:
while what you are saying is correct, the person he quoted claimed that this sounded an awful lot like the strategy in the 90's, which he just disproved.
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true that, i did miss a portion of the earlier discussion. i stand corrected.
 
Maybe it's the re-design we've been waiting for since March when it was reported "people familiar with the matter tell AppleInsider there's new life in the Mac mini department, where a small team of engineers have recently been tasked with gutting the diminutive desktop and applying fresh internals."
 
TheDPR said:
Refurbs are up again, for the first time in a long time. Looks like they're really trying to clear out old stock. Something new is coming...I can feel it.
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And the refurbs are still too expensive for what you get! But I'm hoping something new comes out too. My G4 mini is struggling
 
So if it really is being killed off, not to be replaced (speculation i know), then that would mean if you want to get a Mac without a screen, you either get an 8-core xeon workstation the size of half an apartment block with a price to match or... No, actually that's your choice. Why don't they just go all the way and weld a screen on the side of that too - hey presto iMac Pro!

Then just remove the firewire from all existing product lines, and everyone's happy.

But hey, they're making lots of money so who cares.
 
gkarris said:
No Firewire in the MacBook - go buy a MacBook Pro...:eek:
No more Mini - go buy an iMac...:eek:
iPhone? T-Mobile is too resonable, go pay $90/month for AT&T... :eek:

Gas and food are overrated anyways... :eek:

Like my question all along, "Apple Getting Snobbish?"

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=6469637
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Apple have always been snobbish. The Steve doesn't pander to budget buyers, which is why Macs have always had a high buy-in point and the Mini has always been the red-headed stepchild.
 
Ted13 said:
Yet not a single PC manufacturer ever released a competitive machine at a lower price.
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Uh, sure they did. What do you think the other 99% of people buying low-end computers chose ?

Sony had some similar form factor models priced in the $2-3K range. Or there were the no brand stuff with LOUD fans that didn't have Core 2 Duo processors, Firewire, DVI or even a Windows install. I know Dell came out with a Mini clone recently but IIRC they too didn't compete.
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"Competitor" != "identical". For most people, the case a computer comes in is not a significant factor in its purchase (and firewire even less so). There have been PCs that are cheaper and better than the Mini for years.
 
bstreiff said:
Not quite. To replicate Target Disk Mote, you'd have to add support for TCP/IP, DHCP, probably Bonjour, oh, and some sort of filesharing protocol into EFI. (Some of this is already present in the MacBook Air.)

But wait, there's more! Target Disk Mode makes the entire drive accessible to the host machine; that is, it appears as an HFS+ block device. You can reformat it, repartition it, whatever; you're directly accessing the hard drive.

For a theoretical Ethernet Disk Mode to work and to be as fully-featured, you'd need to have a special network block device driver of some sort; sharing over AFP/SMB wouldn't cut it. Oh, and the concurrency issues of having multiple people connected would be fun, too.
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iSCSI.

Conveniently, there are already a couple of excellent open-sourced implementations of an iSCSI target.
 
it should be discontinued. it leaves too many options and issues for consumers dealing with third party keyboards, mice, and monitors.
 
Please discontinue this piece of crap and release an actual computer, Apple.
 
iDave said:
Oh yeah, right. So we can really see all of the fingerprints. :rolleyes:

Steve Jobs pronounced recently that touch screen Macs "haven't made a lot of sense to us." They don't make any sense to me either. My shoulders hurt just thinking about it.

Sorry, back on topic now...
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Why else do it? Makes no sense from an ergonomics/useability point of view without touchscreen... Chief:rolleyes:
 
toke lahti said:
This is the funniest part; there is of course a plastic display panel behind the glass, so how does it get greener when you add glass in front of it?
Useless bulk to recycle, when macbooks could be lighter and non-glaring without it. Surely the ingenius unibody would be strong enough without glass?
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Good point, and how much carbon dioxide is given off in the glass making process? Let alone recycling the stuff you need to heat to high temperatures for a few hours although somewhere I used to work do some really nice recycled glass tiles made from TV screens but they don't come cheap - around $800 per square metre if I remember correctly...
 
RyanR. said:
I was just thinking if they put a faster 2.5+ghz in a mini I would buy one.
Well, that sucks! I hate it when a plan falls apart.
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I put a 2.33GHz CPU in mine, with more memory and a 320 GB HD. I think it works quite well. I'd like to have a second one.

XBench score was 140.
 
WHAT are the ODDS that the "Mac Mini End Of Life?" thread would get killed at the exact post that I thought it would?!

If you go to post 2,500 in that thread, you'll see my prediction. Pretty good, eh?

Now I say that it will be updated when THIS thread gets to 2,742. :D
 
Tallest Skil said:
WHAT are the ODDS that the "Mac Mini End Of Life?" thread would get killed at the exact post that I thought it would?!

If you go to post 2,500 in that thread, you'll see my prediction. Pretty good, eh?

Now I say that it will be updated when THIS thread gets to 2,742. :D
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Wow, you prophet! Now tell us who will win the election. What stock should I pick? Lotto numbers?

I fear you're correct that this will become the new "MacMini EOL" never-ending thread. So do we basically add 2742 to the post-count when complaining about the lack of a MacMini update?

-Clive
 
Mac Mini to be discontinued?

I've read a lot of postings here, and they almost all make the same assumption: that discontinuing shipments means the product is about to be cancelled.

You know what making assumptions means, so why do you persist in doing so?

Consider instead what it might mean; that a significant upgrade is on the way which may either take the same form factor or maybe even a new one. Many, many people want a headless mid-sized unit with the capabilities of an iMac but the serviceability of a Mac Pro. An upgraded Mac Mini in a slightly larger case not dissimilar to the Japanese hack linked by someone else earlier is not out of the question; but we just don't know.

My personal guess is that the Mini is getting a significant upgrade while trying to stay in the "entry-level" price range. If Apple is stopping shipments of the current model, that would most likely mean they are pre-manufacturing the next release model; just as they have done with previous iPods, iMacs, MacBooks, etc. Instead of bewailing the loss of an existing product, you should be looking forward to what is ahead.
 
Vulpinemac said:
You know what making assumptions means, so why do you persist in doing so?

Consider instead what it might mean; that a significant upgrade is on the way which may either take the same form factor or maybe even a new one. Many, many people want a headless mid-sized unit with the capabilities of an iMac but the serviceability of a Mac Pro. An upgraded Mac Mini in a slightly larger case not dissimilar to the Japanese hack linked by someone else earlier is not out of the question; but we just don't know.

My personal guess is that the Mini is getting a significant upgrade while trying to stay in the "entry-level" price range. If Apple is stopping shipments of the current model, that would most likely mean they are pre-manufacturing the next release model; just as they have done with previous iPods, iMacs, MacBooks, etc. Instead of bewailing the loss of an existing product, you should be looking forward to what is ahead.
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It's not an assumption, it's an educated guess. We've all learned by now that Steve is more concerned with style than functionality. We also know he's not afraid to cut optical drives. These two things in tandem will kill the MacMini as we know it. It will be replaced with an even smaller (and more irrelevant) box of circuits.

For you to ASSUME that Jobs cares about the prosumer anymore is foolish. A lot of people WANT a mid-tower Mac, but Jobs doesn't care. The sooner you learn this the better.

I don't mean to sound harsh. It's just the truth. I thought exactly like you for a very long time. Six months ago, I finally stopped wasting my time and visited this site. If you're looking for a mid-tower running OS X, it's your only hope.

Regards,

-Clive
 
^^^^

Anyone know what the status is so far? I haven't heard about any discontinuing the Mini from Apple.

Shuttle is going small PC-crazy. Here's their latest, $399 for Linux.

Maybe Apple doesn't want to cater to the budget-minded under $800 for a computer anymore. :mad:

http://us.shuttle.com/ConfigurePackage.aspx?package=SLX2700#
 

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Melodic said:
And the refurbs are still too expensive for what you get! But I'm hoping something new comes out too. My G4 mini is struggling
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Not when you buy them using 25-30%off M$ Cashback (US only) on ebay, then low $400s is acceptable for what you get with 1 y warranty
 
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