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New Mac Mini Finally Coming in October Alongside New iPads?
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4 out of 5.
Prepare to be pissed. Apple is done with spinners. With usb 3.0 and thunderbolt they don't see a need for a large, slow, unreliable internal drive anymore.
Ok, make it bigger, like my 2009 model. Still, no way for the quad core. Mac mini is not a PERFORMANCE machine. It's a tiny box you can bring wherever you go with you. It's an entry level mac. You can't possibly expect it to have true quad core processor and (like many people whine) a dedicated video card. Mac mini is apple tv on steroids. That's it.
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Yeah, cause external drives are reliable, tiny and fast.
dying market
This is a dying market. I hope Apple can revitalize it but that's a long shot. I guess the selling point is a spec upgrade and the best desktop OS (Yosemite) preloaded.
They should lower the price on it and move it even more entry-level. With Continuity in Yosemite + iOS 8 there's a good chance that cheaper Mac mini sales could spur iOS sales or vice versa, making it a win-win for Apple.
This is a dying market. I hope Apple can revitalize it but that's a long shot. I guess the selling point is a spec upgrade and the best desktop OS (Yosemite) preloaded.
They should lower the price on it and move it even more entry-level. With Continuity in Yosemite + iOS 8 there's a good chance that cheaper Mac mini sales could spur iOS sales or vice versa, making it a win-win for Apple.
It's not dying at all. Millions of people use it as media center. It's SO MUCH better than an apple tv. It's actually a perfect living room computer.
Apple doesn't really care about the reliability of the external drives. They just don't want them inside of the machine where they are apple's responsibility if they go bad.
And a good external drive is no slower than an internal one. The slow part is the disk access itself now, not the connection.
I reckon 1 mini to match the low-end imac and if we're lucky 1 slightly more powerful version.
Completely agree. With so many people switching to the iPhone, with continuity being such a great feature, with Windows 8 being such a mess, a mini, if advertised, would draw in a lot of folks who would settle for a windows machine. But Apple has to advertise the Mac at least a little bit. Its been a long time since I've seen a Mac commercial.
That, or build a mini with the ATV inside.
If they're one and the same at the same size as the Apple TV, I think it'll be good.
I agree with your agreement. This is a grand opportunity for Apple to expand their ecosystem and customer base.
Thunderbolt drives cost a fortune. Usb3 drives are nice, but .. well, meh. Having all the wires everywhere on the desk is not for me. I love macs, but for a little home server i bough a node 304, put inside 6 hard drives and it's serving 3 households powered by plex. And you can hide it so nobody sees 20 cables and wires and stuff. Funny but for the first time of my life Apple didn't have a computer that satisfied my needs.
Like many people here I want a new Mac mini. It will be time to replace my desktop soon and I will buy a Mac mini as the replacement because windows 8 is a mess that I cannot stand.
ARM processor
I just bought a new Mac Mini two days ago - I decided I didn't want to wait, and wasn't sure what the new one would bring - i.e. not being able to upgrade memory, hard dive, etc.
As far as the processors go, I have a feeling, like mentioned before, it will either have the same processors as the Macbook Pro(s) that were introduced a few months back, or they will have ARM processors.
I think if Apple was pick a product to make the move from Intel x86 to ARM, the Mac Mini would be the least risky way to test the waters - it would probably be a little too risky to do with the Macbook Air, Mackbook Pro, or the iMac.
For me, as long as it ran well, ran an ARM version of OS X, and major software publishers like Adobe quickly ported their software to the new processor, I would consider buying and using an ARM based Mac Mini.
I just bought a new Mac Mini two days ago - I decided I didn't want to wait, and wasn't sure what the new one would bring - i.e. not being able to upgrade memory, hard dive, etc.
As far as the processors go, I have a feeling, like mentioned before, it will either have the same processors as the Macbook Pro(s) that were introduced a few months back, or they will have ARM processors.
I think if Apple was pick a product to make the move from Intel x86 to ARM, the Mac Mini would be the least risky way to test the waters - it would probably be a little too risky to do with the Macbook Air, Mackbook Pro, or the iMac.
For me, as long as it ran well, ran an ARM version of OS X, and major software publishers like Adobe quickly ported their software to the new processor, I would consider buying and using an ARM based Mac Mini.
Yep, Apple doesn't even make hardware capable of running iCloud infrastructure anymore. Timmy's Apple is just a sick joke.
Oh, thank God.
I have a new MBP for my heavy lifting, so I've been desperately waiting for a refresh so I can consolidate my iMac and old-Mini server into one device to save electricity and space, and maybe put a 4K monitor on the thing.
Here's hoping Apple will offer a MBP-like option with a mobile-sized quad core and a dedicated GPU, but I won't freak out if it's similar to the current ones with an either/or proposition.
I have a new MBP for my heavy lifting, so I've been desperately waiting for a refresh so I can consolidate my iMac and old-Mini server into one device to save electricity and space, and maybe put a 4K monitor on the thing.
Here's hoping Apple will offer a MBP-like option with a mobile-sized quad core and a dedicated GPU, but I won't freak out if it's similar to the current ones with an either/or proposition.
mac pro mini
I'd like to see the mac mini be redesigned and look just like the mac pro but much smaller. if not that I'd like it to look just like the TV
I'd like to see the mac mini be redesigned and look just like the mac pro but much smaller. if not that I'd like it to look just like the TV
yep. after being a Windows user since 1991, i switched to OS X solely due to how horrendous Windows 8 and 8.1 have been