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Much Smaller Mac Mini Coming?
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Taking what seems to be the present norm for the mini we're more likely to see it house Penryn / Santa Rosa as opposed to Penryn / Montevina even if its release overlaps the release of Montevina. To my recollection the mini seems to run a generation behind the Macbook and with hints to a quick move to Montevina (new iMacs getting Montevina-ish chipsets) it would appear that time-wise it seems feasible to see the Mini running what the Macbook does now while the rest of the line moves onwards and upwards. I think it also makes financial sense for Apple to use the Mini as sort of a scrapyard for last gen parts where applicable.
All just my opinions and ones I hope I am wrong about. I find it very interesting that Intel offered a unique chipset to Apple for use in the new iMacs and that, at least to me, throws some unpredictability in our speculating of future hardware. It makes it much more exciting too...
Mac Nano? with battery
I am one who wishes there was a third party battery that could fit under the mini, plugged into the mini's power port, and then the cord plugged into the battery pack, so i could move it from my room to the bigger screen in the family room and show downloaded movies.
I know, I know.. that's the whole point of Apple TV...
But I have a mac mini
I guess once Apple TV is 1080P i'll be getting one.
I am one who wishes there was a third party battery that could fit under the mini, plugged into the mini's power port, and then the cord plugged into the battery pack, so i could move it from my room to the bigger screen in the family room and show downloaded movies.
I know, I know.. that's the whole point of Apple TV...
But I have a mac mini
I guess once Apple TV is 1080P i'll be getting one.
I am one who wishes there was a third party battery that could fit under the mini, plugged into the mini's power port, and then the cord plugged into the battery pack, so i could move it from my room to the bigger screen in the family room and show downloaded movies.
I know, I know.. that's the whole point of Apple TV...
But I have a mac mini
I guess once Apple TV is 1080P i'll be getting one.
There's no plug in your living room by the TV? What's the TV plugged into?
Someone modded a Mac Mini a few years back by replacing the optical drive with a thin Li-Ion battery to make it a portable.
There's no plug in your living room by the TV? What's the TV plugged into?
VGA maybe
We were talking about for power. Pigumon wants a battery for the Mini, but I was questioning the value of being able to have the Mini battery-powered for hooking it up to a TV in a living room, since there's power available there and you'd presumably be leaving it hooked up for extended periods while watching a download movie, for instance.
How About some LIGHT
How about some Light? After all that heat in March, I have not been able to dig up one single scrap about the impending resurgence or impending demise of the Mini. But, then, I live on the rusty old East coast. The only information I can get from my Beltway Bandit patients are things related to national security and secret new radar systems. How boring.
Why haven't any of you dumpster diving Palo Alto "Scoopsters" been able to dig up so much as a single shred of information to help the rest of us plan our computer lives? I mean, the dearth of information is profound. Isn't there a hardware shortage in somebody's supply chain, a sale in the Herzegovina branch of CDW, a new motherboard ramp up in Taiwan, a mysterious part number appearing in the Best Buy system, anything? Even a photo on Flicker would be encouraging.
I have caught myself a number of times late at night, putting together custom configurations of Mac Pros on Apple's on-line store. When I pull myself back to my senses I am sweating profusely. I even found myself last Saturday sending emails to MacPro sellers in Craigs List. Oh my God.
I refuse to believe, given the fact that Apple farms out its fab to factories all over the world that there is not a single snitch who could be bribed to say something to bring this torture to an end. Wasn't mother-boarding banned by the Geneva Convention?
How about some Light? After all that heat in March, I have not been able to dig up one single scrap about the impending resurgence or impending demise of the Mini. But, then, I live on the rusty old East coast. The only information I can get from my Beltway Bandit patients are things related to national security and secret new radar systems. How boring.
Why haven't any of you dumpster diving Palo Alto "Scoopsters" been able to dig up so much as a single shred of information to help the rest of us plan our computer lives? I mean, the dearth of information is profound. Isn't there a hardware shortage in somebody's supply chain, a sale in the Herzegovina branch of CDW, a new motherboard ramp up in Taiwan, a mysterious part number appearing in the Best Buy system, anything? Even a photo on Flicker would be encouraging.
I have caught myself a number of times late at night, putting together custom configurations of Mac Pros on Apple's on-line store. When I pull myself back to my senses I am sweating profusely. I even found myself last Saturday sending emails to MacPro sellers in Craigs List. Oh my God.
I refuse to believe, given the fact that Apple farms out its fab to factories all over the world that there is not a single snitch who could be bribed to say something to bring this torture to an end. Wasn't mother-boarding banned by the Geneva Convention?
How 'bout admin close this thread?
let's put a lot of people out of their misery and close this discussion
it's not going anywhere
it's only torturing people who wish the mini to become something 'desirable' (it ain't)
frankly it's confusing when it shows up on the front page as 'active' (it ain't)
we don't even know if Apple's filled the job on the Mini redesign team, so
holding breath will not make anything happen any time soon
Apple knows what we want and sometimes that only get you the opposite (how hard can it be to build support into Front Row for EyeTV, seriously? ain't gonna happen, because the mini is meant to be a half-arsed-solution, just like the TV)
it's like the 3G iPhone, "a watched pot never boils", all you're doing now is contributing to Apple's (in this case) undeserved, customer generated hype and anticipation - don't give-em the pleasure
admins please, kill it now
hope I haven't inadvertently started a fanboy backlash
let's put a lot of people out of their misery and close this discussion
it's not going anywhere
it's only torturing people who wish the mini to become something 'desirable' (it ain't)
frankly it's confusing when it shows up on the front page as 'active' (it ain't)
we don't even know if Apple's filled the job on the Mini redesign team, so
holding breath will not make anything happen any time soon
Apple knows what we want and sometimes that only get you the opposite (how hard can it be to build support into Front Row for EyeTV, seriously? ain't gonna happen, because the mini is meant to be a half-arsed-solution, just like the TV)
it's like the 3G iPhone, "a watched pot never boils", all you're doing now is contributing to Apple's (in this case) undeserved, customer generated hype and anticipation - don't give-em the pleasure
admins please, kill it now
hope I haven't inadvertently started a fanboy backlash
Actually I'd like to see it kept alive, if only because there has been some quality discussion in here amongst the frivolity and if something does indeed surface in June, then I'd like to be able to continue the conversation with some of the posters on this thread, rather than have any chance at conversation lost amongst the myriad of posters on a new product thread.
How's that for a run-on sentence?!
Due to the lack of real news on the topic, I have one tidbit of information that points either way on the death or ressurection of the mini. Coinciding with the launch of the new iMacs, the Norwegian Apple Store dropped the prices on both models of the mini by kroner 600, roughly $120. Both minis are now sporting the "New Price" sticker on their product photos. Does this mean clearing of inventory for a replacement or simply making a rather ridiculous price (still $850 for the combodrive one) seem less out of touch? Probably the latter, imo, given the overall silence. To give you an idea why people wait for Apple to get their act together around here: the deafult store config of the Mac Pro is $4000. If you have a Cinema Display and are looking to get with the lacklustre hardware update program, it's a mini from yesteryear or adjusting your diet. Personally, I find all this secrecy and the oh-and-ah keynotes to stroke the Jobsian ego a mild insult to loyal Apple users over many years. Not everyone buys computers based on the sole selling point of girth, even if Apple thinks they should. If that's what it takes to keep your Mac credentials these days, something is amiss.
I LOLed reading your post. Seriously
The anticipation is unsettling, I do agree. But as a collective force, we must endeavor to endure until WWDC! Almost there...Almost there.....Don't switch off your targeting computer just yet....
No.. You are missing the point
Remember, it is steve jobs we are talking about. Maybe a Mac mini 1 inch thin with everything you guys wanted:
AND PLEASE keep this forum running. High Quality
Remember, it is steve jobs we are talking about. Maybe a Mac mini 1 inch thin with everything you guys wanted:
- 10.6 Thundercat
- 2.6 Ghz Montevina Processor
- 2GB frontbus
- 4GB RAM
- Omni Optical drive, you put the disc on top of it and it reads it without moving it. So no size problems.
- all 1 inch thin
- A Mac mini micro that can fit in the human body with the current specifications.
AND PLEASE keep this forum running. High Quality
Very well said, granny. Is the Mac Pro really that much more expensive in Norway? Is the default configuration the 2x2.8GHz for you as well?
The Apple displays are a joke. How can they charge so much money for a display with just a single input and no HDCP support? An HD monitor with no HDCP support?!
The Apple displays are a joke. How can they charge so much money for a display with just a single input and no HDCP support? An HD monitor with no HDCP support?!
If they can put in a desktop hard drive and make the computer 1" tall, then I'll buy one.
Sadly, yes. Prices are generally higher, of course, but a Mac Pro is not exactly change for anyone. You can drop one processor to get it for about $3250.
Jobs should really see someone about his anorexia nevrosa when it comes to design. If he insist on putting anything in an envelope at the next keynote I'll nominate him for a star appearance on The Biggest Loser. Meanwhile, we can only wait for the spring or fall or whatever collection from the haute couture of computing.
I know how you feel. Seems like there's nothing happening any time soon, so perhaps those who speculate on an August release (with June belonging to the iPhone) will be right after all.
A few weeks ago I would have bet almost anything on updated Minis coming before June, but not now. But considering we'll probably get nothing more than a piddling X3100 & the usual spec bumps, I suggest people might consider putting themselves out of their misery & just buying what you need now. Looks like I'll be doing just that via eBay.
The Cinema Displays predate that DRM idiocy. It's not surprising that they don't have it. There is also no need, as OS X doesn't support the playback of HD movies from movie companies due to a lack of HDCP support in the software.
This is most likely because physical media is dead for all uses other than data backup.