According to several imaginary reliable news sources, the new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming after the iPhone 9, or is the iPhone 9
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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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I'll be blunt and go old school in this joint, I wish Apple would hash out whether they're going to update the Mini, and weed out the narcs that just don't want to s(pli)ff up the Mini and oil the skids a bit. My 2012 Minis are chronic(ly) getting old - I want a new Mini that will smoke my 2012 quad-core.
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That's what happens when a company can't be bothered to update a computer in four years, then makes an abysmal update with CPUs that are three generations behind (or is it four now?) and on top of that increases the price of said computer. It's like they want the Mac mini to fail.
No one is buying the MacPro either which says the core market is AIO and mobility devices. It might be wise for them to consolidate both ends of the product-line and build on a "tried and true" topology and ergonomics that fits with the stoic community of headless desktop users (us) - make a killer machine that will keep us quiet for the next 7-10 years.
I can only imagine what you would have said if you wanted a MacPro ....
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Well I went to school back in the 60's but evidently that school wasn't old enough, because I have no idea what you were trying to say.
I had three Mac minis so far: the 2007, 2010, and 2014 models. I still use the 2014 one every day. Yesterday Apple sent me a survey, asking me several questions about my experience with the Mac mini and what I wanted on a new model. This is what I told them I wanted:
Make it a little smaller while keeping all its ports
Upgrade all USB and Thunderbolt ports to USB 3.1 gen 2 ports, maybe add a few more
Keep the Ethernet, headphone, and SD card ports
Use only SSD for storage
Hopefully Apple will implement the changes I suggested and a new Mac mini is almost certainly coming.
Make it a little smaller while keeping all its ports
Upgrade all USB and Thunderbolt ports to USB 3.1 gen 2 ports, maybe add a few more
Keep the Ethernet, headphone, and SD card ports
Use only SSD for storage
Hopefully Apple will implement the changes I suggested and a new Mac mini is almost certainly coming.
I got a new mini in 2013 and another in 2016 (plus a used 2012 quad). Have not gotten a survey, but the fact that they are asking does seem to offer a faint ray of hope.
Please ... will one of the Mini gurus compose a form letter that includes all the technical jargon about chips, graphics, ports and buses that we can only dream of and submit it to the forum so we can all chime-in when our surveys arrive. Call me a doubter but it seems a little too naive for Apple not to know what we want or not to have a vision for what a cutting-edge headless desktop computer should be in 2017.
Great, now we are waiting for the new Mini and the survey. They are almost certainly coming.
The problem is the phone is @70% of apples profit, where as the mini is a small % of the mac which is @9%
From a business point of view you have to see the reality without the emotion of an owner. It's all about the stock price.
Apple are no doubt happy to receive any and all contribution - hell look at the MBA, but investment is going where the money is.
From a business point of view you have to see the reality without the emotion of an owner. It's all about the stock price.
Apple are no doubt happy to receive any and all contribution - hell look at the MBA, but investment is going where the money is.
Well the only options now are the Mini is EOL'd when either the CPUs/chipsets are no longer available or it will receive a complete overhaul (which would most likely then be launched with the new Mac Pro and displays in 2018).
If they were going to keep the existing chassis with a CPU/chipset update, that would have happened at WWDC.
If they were going to keep the existing chassis with a CPU/chipset update, that would have happened at WWDC.
I need (want) a headless mac. What options do I have? Good ones?
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So, can you post that link, which is in that blue button?
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Well, mini is always one gen behind in tech, so if they deliver new Mini after hdmi2.1 is on the shelf, Mini would have 2.0. Which is a good thing.Better they held off. We're going to want HDMI 2.1 support.
Here is that link from the email.
https://research.applesurveys.com/SE/?Q_DL=b78LzT0RFCiQ7VH_8979O2Y7ZAeMriJ_MLRP_ezB572pWcH3ixAp
Parsed the URL as "https://research.applesurveys.com" logged in and got an "unhandled exception" on the execution.
So unless they send that survey we aint gettin counted.
So unless they send that survey we aint gettin counted.
Anybody else get a sneaky suspicion that Apple is saving the next Mini to headline the next Apple event?
That suggests that the next Mac Mini is almost certainly coming.
That suggests that the next Mac Mini is almost certainly coming.
Headline? No.
But I could see a new form factor Mac Mini being part of the next Mac Pro and Display keynote.