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New Mac Mini Announced! [MERGED]
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Who cares what operating system you're running if you're going to spend all your time in a set-top box interface program? Not running OSX would actually improve the usability of it since then you could actually play BluRays on it,
and those video file formats Apple likes to pretend nobody uses.That being said I wouldn't run Windows on it, built-in TV tuner and small size seems perfect for a small MythTV setup, though.
beuatiful new mac mini but dont worth the price, why? :
$700 mac mini + $140 keyb n mouse + $350 Dell Monitor = $1190... so is better a IMAC $1200 !!!!
If you need all those other things, then yes, go for an iMac. If you already have accessories and a display or a HDTV, Mac Mini could be a better route.
Do you guys think the Superdrive is really necessary ? I was thinking about that the other day ... I haven't used my superdrive in ages. And I got the feeling most people don't use it either. Maybe Apple should just drop it and make an external drive (optional) for the ones who need it. Apple was the first company to abandon the 3½-inch disk drive, maybe it's time to do the same with DVD-drive.
I burn and read CDs all the time. I wouldn't want an external optical drive - I bought the mini to save space
Supporting 1080p + Audio would require 1.3a. So I imagine that. 1.4 has only shown up with 3D applications.What version of HDMI new Mac mini have:1.2 or 1.3 or maybe 1.4?
I say ditch it. I mean look at your choices. You can have a sucky 5200 RPM SLOW drive with a "super drive" (yeah it's really SUPER; you can get one twice as fast for around $50) or you can get the server edition with a faster CPU and DUAL 500GB 7200 RPM drives (imagine that; a Mac that actually comes with a built-in backup drive and/or a dual TB setup) and the server edition of OSX. This is not even a choice. The regular version is a crap (buy a Macbook instead since that's all it is).
The only sad thing is that if Steve were not OBSESSED with "thin" they could have had BOTH (or real 3.5" drives) with a taller form factor. I'm sorry, but overall, the thing is a total waste of time. It's a notebook without the monitor either way. A "desktop" should be a DESKTOP and have REAL drives an REAL CPUs and REAL GPUs, not TOY ones. And sadly, that's what Apple has offered for $700-1000. A TOY. You might as well buy an iPhone. In a few years, that's all they will sell anyway so I guess it doesn't really matter. Apple stopped selling real computers a few years ago (about the time the iPhone came out). Sadly, Apple is passing on their current cachet and single-handedly destroying the Mac all on their own. If they have no interest in real computing, Steve should pass the division off to someone that actually CARES about real computers instead of just gadgets, IMO because anyone who is not a fanatic (i.e. fan-boy, fan-girl) understands what I'm saying. The only REAL "desktop" computer Apple offers is the Mac Pro and it hasn't seen a lousy update (not even a hard drive increase or a price reduction) in over a year.
This is why Apple ditched the "computer" part of Apple Computer. They don't care about computers anymore. If you don't believe me, just look at the main MacRumors page today. A half dozen "iPhone" articles and not one thing on the Mac computer. "Mac Rumors" ? We might as well go ahead and change it to "iPhone Rumors" or "iOS Rumors" since that's all this year will be about and it's sad. Imagine going to Microsoft's website and seeing nothing but "Zune" articles all day long. It sucks for real computer enthusiasts that don't give a crap about phones and other gadget toys. Sadly, I'm afraid that's all Apple will be. The worst part is that Google's Android is catching up FAST and if iOS is all Apple has to talk about, it will soon be back where it was in 1998. I guess they never learn. 1984...Mac was AWESOME. 1998...Mac sucks due to short-sighted greed on Apple's part back in the late '80s. 2008...iPhone RULES. 2012, iPhone is old news. What else does Apple have to offer? Oh yeah, they ditched their computer division for a Toys-R-Us make-over. But fads don't last forever. Sorry Apple. Game Over. Yeah, my post looks stupid now. Wait a couple of years and see how stupid it looks then.
Sure it does. He's saying that behavior is the domain of fanboys (i.e. that type of argument is a "fanboy" argument/behavior).
I agree with you 100% on all points, check out the post I wrote a few days back. The funniest part was that I actually had a few questions about the Mini and none of the sale associates had the time to help me. They were all to busy at the iphone and ipad tables so my daughter and I just left.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/943988/
Out of curiosity, what questions did you have that weren't covered by http://www.apple.com/macmini/? All you were likely to be told would be on that site.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Samsung-Creates-32GB-DDR3-Module-145632.shtml
i hope they will include in future this one inside mac pros or maybe minis?
i hope they will include in future this one inside mac pros or maybe minis?
Why can't Apple see that there is a whole market they have thrown away? Yes I rant and rave and get discouraged. I want to use a Mac. I don't want to switch. But I want a desktop spec computer. Apple has laptop spec and workstation spec and nothing in between.
It's like having to choose between watching high school sports or pro sports when you really want to be watching college sports. It's not that high school or pro is bad, but it just isn't college.
The shareholders don't want to see it, but STEVE is 100% the problem at this point. They don't want to see it or believe it because Apple is making gobs of money selling phones and now tablets. It's hard to argue that someone is no longer fit for the job when the company is making tons of money. But the problem is that it's short-sighted and that market is somewhat fickle and possibly a fad to some degree.
The point is that their computer line is starting to stagnate instead of innovate and that stuffing a computer into the back of a monitor is no longer innovation. There's a reason those things don't sell in the Windows world and it's not because manufacturers haven't tried. It's because they are not popular. They only sell well in the Mac world because there are ZERO alternatives in that price bracket. The Mac Pro is priced into the stratosphere (and yet doesn't make professionals happy these days either and COST isn't the problem there; it's a machines that would make a consumer happy, but it's priced completely out of their price range). I maintain that if Apple produced a consumer priced tower Mac (say a Mac Pro with a regular quad i7, normal memory and the rest of the standard specs and priced it around $1800, the thing would outsell ALL iMac models combined. The 27" monitor they have available would work well with it even despite them dropping the 24" and 30" models.
The problem is they won't even try it to see what happens. People say it would cannibalize Mac Pro sales, but that wouldn't be true if the Mac Pro were a TRUE "Pro" model with the features that Pros want. A consumer version wouldn't overlap or cannibalize those sales. That only makes sense if you figure that consumers are being forced to buy a workstation class machine right now. I'm sure a few are that can afford it, but the rest either due without or build a Hackintosh for around $1200 that has more features. It WOULD cannibalize iMac sales, but Apple gets the money either way so I find the rationalization behind that fear a bit overblow to begin with. Besides, I think it would prove it's the iMac line that needs to go (or at least reduce the number of models), not the other way around.
What is really needed is to split the company into two divisions (instead Apple seems hell bent on destroying the computer side) and let someone else run the computer division that actually cares about the Mac. Steve can then run his fantasy gadget/toy company while Apple itself maintains its true blood lines of being a computer company and people still have an alternative choice to just Windows. I don't think Linux will EVER be that alternative because they simply refuse to set STANDARDS on that operating system to make one distribution binary packages possible. They have too many competing standards and that ruins the whole situation except for those that enjoy the OS more than they do actually getting something done on it. OSX already is what Linux ought to be, but it needs some things like OpenGL and video drivers kept up-to-date along with the latest hardware, not coming late to market and being a follower or making a "pro" machine that has Pro CPUs in it, but consumer everything else and is priced for pros but don't meet pro needs. The "computer" part of Apple has lost its way and it's purely because Steve doesn't give a crap about it anymore. Let someone who DOES care run that part of Apple!
The gadgets are what all the giggling is about at these i___ events. The new mini just shows up online the next day! Thanks for the boost, Stevo!