Of course the rumors are true...I mean, I did just get a new Mac mini on Monday, so it all makes sense, right?![]()
Will it be Iris or Iris Pro though...
I have always wondered why the Mac Mini isn't more popular.
People always complain that Mac's are too expensive yet you never hear anyone mention the Mac Mini. Isn't that the basic consumer Mac?
Don't give them ideas...The New Mac Mini, now in a Coke sized can.
Thanks for taking one for the team, klymr!![]()
I use my 2011 Mac mini as my main machine.Since I put an ssd in it it flies.There would have to be a big upgrade to get me to spend any money.Plus I have a pc tower which has Mavericks running fine if I need something a bit more powerful.
I'm interested by a new form factor, anything to get my MBA out from under my TV.
Long overdue too!
I really like the Mac Mini form factor, but price wise it just doesn't make sense. If they stuck a fusion drive starting in the base model then it starts to be competitive with the iMac.
Lets see a cylindrical mac mini with quad i5s and i7s, half as many ports and a dedicated gpu on higher end models.
First debuted in 2005, the bring-your-own-monitor Mac mini has always been Apples entry-level Mac desktop, but at an entry level price starting at $599, the Mac mini isnt exactly cheap compared to competing budget desktops out there.
Doubtlessly, Apple doesnt consider this a problem theyve never tried to compete in the race to the bottom but what if Apple did release a Mac mini that was cheaper? Over at Letemsvetemapplem.eu, theyve taken a crack at imagining what such a 2014 Mac mini would look like, and they think it would look a lot like a double-stuffed Apple TV, and start at just $399.
Go to an Apple retail store. The mini is lonely in a corner somewhere while the clerks sell newbies on the POWer of the iMac. Plus Apple doesn't really have a monitor that is budget priced for the mini so iMac does make more sense for Apple retail to push.
I use a mini as a jukebox along w/ the Remote app. Love it. If they offered a decent discrete graphics option again I'd bite in an instant as it's really the last hobbyist Mac left w/ the HD (SSD) and RAM easily upgradable.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned PCIe SSD, which most other macs have by now. I'd love to see them have two of those slots (you can do dual SSD on the current model) but they probably won't since that would be more than the nMP has (I guess they'd probably do one of those and one 2.5" HD so they can do fusion). TB2 will happen at some point, it would be nice if it was now.
I'd also like to see more ram slots and desktop CPU but neither of those is likely in the current form factor.
I have a 256gb ssd in mine, use usb storage for my media.Dont need to be opening up again.Plus right now i'm unable to safely since I just had a wrist and hand operation.For someone willing to go to the trouble of disassembling their mini, the Crucial m500 960GB SSD is a perfect match. We'll have to see how the storage options on the new minis will shake out. The recent $100 price drop on the 1TB Fusion Drive upgrade were a good sign.
I posted this a couple of weeks ago when rumors of this started to pop up as well. I'll throw it here again.
Shamelessly stolen from Cult of Mac:
If a new Mac Mini looked like that, heat issues aside, I'd be game. Keep in mind, this is just concept only; nothing concrete.
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Heat factors aside, I think this would be nice.. I don't know what they'd do for video though, unless it was integrated onto the CPU, though I would say that FirePro would be out of the question.
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Actually most of the Haswell variants would be better than the 320M but yeah they need an Iris Pro variant. I don't expect the Iris Pro in the base model either but that shouldn't surprise anybody. Beyond that OpenCL apps work very well on the new Intel GPUs.No Iris Pro, no business. Better keeping my 2010-Mini with its modest, but still pretty usable, 320m.
I use my 2011 Mac mini as my main machine.Since I put an ssd in it it flies.There would have to be a big upgrade to get me to spend any money.Plus I have a pc tower which has Mavericks running fine if I need something a bit more powerful.