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New Mac Mini Coming by End of February According to Belgian Retailer

metalbodyart said:
Not sure what it means but Amazon ran out of stock of all configurations of the mac mini a couple of days ago and their website listed it as "usually ships in 1 to 2 months" and now it just says "Temporarily out of stock" Hmm
Hoping this is a sign that the new mini is on the way. Would love to see it assembled in the USA like the MacPro, wondering if that is part of the hang up? Also wishing for them to drop FW and add an extra TB2 port in its place to go along with a new TB2 display. In black please!!
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It's hard to say one way or the other as the Mac Mini is one of Amazon's best sellers. I recently purchased a Mini from Amazon and would love for that to be true. I'd buy an updated Mini in a heartbeat.

Also Amazon typically post 1-2 month arrival for many of the products they have no estimated time of arrival. I have ordered stuff from them with that same message and the item restocks several weeks out.
 
I see the Apple store is currently down and offline. It's TUESDAY too (products are usually announced on Tuesdays).... Hmmm
 
Wild-Bill said:
You mean, like a soda can-sized cylinder ? LOL
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Not sure if you are trying to troll but every review I've read so far point out to the thermal core (and hence the entire Mac Pro design) being non plus ultra. One fan cooling all these powerful components all the while staying extremely quiet?
 
Mac Mini's are back in stock at Amazon. They have a limited supply and say more are on the way.
 
Galatian said:
Not sure if you are trying to troll but every review I've read so far point out to the thermal core (and hence the entire Mac Pro design) being non plus ultra. One fan cooling all these powerful components all the while staying extremely quiet?
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No, I think you missed the point entirely.:D
 
wow - this beligium article sure resulted in some legs on this forum!

I'm a long time PC user, and looking forward to potentially migrating to MAC world.

A mini (which to me means headless mac) that is a bit more comparable to the power you see in the laptops and integrated units is what I'd need to jump to the mac side...

I'd also need user replaceable parts (mainly ability to pop some more ram into it in a few yeas, and upgrade my own hard-drives) as that's what I've been used to doing for thirty some years.

I don't really care about it's small, or how it looks.
 
Santabean2000 said:
Ummm, no. I'm not a gamer at all in the sense you are describing, but I am looking for better graphics.

I'm probably an 'average user' for the most part, but I do dable in FCP X/Motion (non-pro) projects and I am looking toward a new 4K display too. So yes, a decent GPU option please. [And no, I can't afford a MP, and no I don't want my machine to be locked/glued into a screen iMac style.]

Now if you Sir, could take your old school thinking elsewhere we'd be much the happier for it.
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I understand your thought process here; but the iMac is the role you are looking for.

The Mac Mini is supposed to be a low-cost, entry level machine. If you are hoping to run a 4K display off of one - I'm not sure what you would want to achieve? It neither has the compute, let alone graphical grunt to power that sort of resolution.

If Apple were to release a dedicated GPU Mac Mini - like they have before - it will bite into the iMac sales too much.
 
Sy7ygy said:
It neither has the compute, let alone graphical grunt to power that sort of resolution.
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4k support is coming to mobile chipsets, it's totally something a machine like this could do if they wanted to. And I don't buy the argument that Apple needs to cripple the mini to avoid cutting into iMac sales.

While the 4k video format isn't going to be mainstream for a while (who knows if it ever will really catch on?), 4k support isn't really that crazy an idea for computing considering that Apple is already pushing "retina" in some machines already.
 
A few hours left...

Still hopeful Apple will release it in February... Chances... Running... Out...
 
parish said:
I can't help feeling that a major redesign is on it's way - perhaps the Mini Mac Pro others have touted.

Think about it, if it was just a spec bump to Haswell and TB2 they would have been released the same time as the other Haswell upgrades.

Just my £0.02/$0.02/€0.02
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if a re-design I bet it will even be harder to do DIY modifications.
 
parish said:
I can't help feeling that a major redesign is on it's way - perhaps the Mini Mac Pro others have touted.

Think about it, if it was just a spec bump to Haswell and TB2 they would have been released the same time as the other Haswell upgrades.

Just my £0.02/$0.02/€0.02
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Given that Tim Cook is a supply chain guy, I'm guessing they're using the Mac mini pricepoint to run down stock of Ivy Bridge processors. Or that Intel is practically giving away NOS of Ivy Bridge processors to Apple.

FWIW, they're now talking about the Haswell refresh (second generation speed bump releases), which makes having the minis stuck on Ivy Bridge even more aggravating.
 
nVidia GTX 750M

Given that the new Maxwell GPU from nVidia only requires 60 watts for the GTX 750TI desktop version, does anyone think there's a chance we'll get a GTX 750M inside the next Mac mini?

If they replace the HDD with a Flash drive "stick" like in the new Macs, they would have room for a bigger heatsink and fan.

Also, this is a photo of someone claiming they saw this from Apple's own website, for a brief moment.

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It looks like the same form factor to me, probably to help the Mac mini servers hosting companies.
 
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Yvan256 said:
Given that the new Maxwell GPU from nVidia only requires 60 watts for the desktop version, does anyone think there's a chance we'll get a GTX 750M inside the next Mac mini?

If they replace the HDD with a Flash drive "stick" like in the new Macs, they would have room for a bigger heatsink and fan.
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if this happens, I will be buying one as an HTPC / Steam Game streaming box for my TV instantly.

Don't think it's happening though.
 
Yvan256 said:
Given that the new Maxwell GPU from nVidia only requires 60 watts for the GTX 750TI desktop version, does anyone think there's a chance we'll get a GTX 750M inside the next Mac mini?

If they replace the HDD with a Flash drive "stick" like in the new Macs, they would have room for a bigger heatsink and fan.

Also, this is a photo of someone claiming they saw this from Apple's own website, for a brief moment.

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It looks like the same form factor to me, probably to help the Mac mini servers hosting companies.
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I dont think it will look like that. For two reasons:

1. the picture looks like fake,

2. the proposed design has no similarities to any other mac. It looks more like an iphone.

:)

Personally, I think an updated version of the mac mini will be released together with a new thunderbolt display. So, probably in september.
 
Thares said:
I dont think it will look like that. For two reasons:

1. the picture looks like fake,

2. the proposed design has no similarities to any other mac. It looks more like an iphone.

:)

Personally, I think an updated version of the mac mini will be released together with a new thunderbolt display. So, probably in september.
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I can't debate point 1. (something like that could be whipped together pretty easily), but assuming it's real, point 2 is kinda moot. Apple could redesign the Mini to anything they want. And considering it's no longer the smallest form factor PC around anymore (NUCs are currently beating it), they could decide to go with an entirely new design for an entirely new Mini.

As for the new Maxwell Geforces being in there, I kinda doubt that'll happen, nice though it'd be. Apple will probably opt for an integrated chip to make it as small as possible.
 
Of course, they can design it as they want. But I think, if they'd want to approach into a new design direction for the whole Mac setup, they would have started with the Mac Pro. So in this context I rather think that a new Mac Mini will look more like the current version.

Well, maybe I'm wrong. We're all just speculating. I hope they release something soon!
 
Yvan256 said:
Also, this is a photo of someone claiming they saw this from Apple's own website, for a brief moment.
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Rule of thumb: if someone takes a photo of his own monitor instead of making a screenshot, purporting to have stumbled over some unannounced product, it's fake.
 
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