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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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I've suggested something similar on the forums in the past. A sort of modern day Commodore 64. I think it would work well for many, but not for those that use it as a server or media centre. But whatever the Mac Mini becomes, it will not serve everybody. I would like to see 3 Macs fill the Mini space:
- A Mac Keys as you suggest
- An expandable Mac Mini with replaceable components and a full compliment of ports
- A pocketable Mac Nano with HDMI and a couple of USB-C ports.
You mean the one I couldn't remember? No. It was named like o2 or X2 or something like that.This?
Considering that the iMac makes the computer disappear behind the screen, a Mini could make the entire computer disappear within the keyboard. Even with 2 USB-C Thunderbolt ports there's enough spare PCIe lanes left over for a couple of USB-A ports and a HDMI port. They could conceivably do away with the fan by making it a 5w machine with Macbook and some SSD onboard to keep the cooling requirements minimal - that would put the cat amongst the pigeons though.
Apple should merge the AIO concept with the modular concept. Several years ago I first saw a Windows rig wherein a small-FF computer was mounted on the back of the monitor (I think it was in a doctor's office). Use all that Apple design power (you know, the folks churning out the watchbands?) to come up with the follow-on iMac (the modMac?) which embraces this idea - a clean/thin monitor with the non-monitor parts in a mini-like box mounted on the back. Make each part available separately so people who need a headless unit can just buy the guts. Pares things down to one product line (OK, two if you consider monitor and box as two separate lines) and provides for a wide range of mix-and-match.
Sadly, Nokia was already rotting from the inside out before Microsoft bought it out. While it had awesome engineering resources producing its enormous lineup of products, and a superb manufacturing pipeline, I don't think its management ever really came to grips with running such an enormous business once it became a global powerhouse.
There were a lot of different projects going on in parallel, without clear central guidance to control everything. For example, the classic OS Nokia used on its most popular smartphones was Symbian; but, this OS really didn't scale up very well, and the research department decided to look for alternatives. They came up with Maemo in 2005; this OS was, in effect, a full-blown desktop Linux OS, with a UI designed for portable devices. Note that they released the first Maemo device years before the iPhone came out.
However, management couldn't decide whether to stick with the OS that was their bread and butter (Symbian) or push hard for the new OS (Maemo). So, they just punted and tried to support both at the same time.
Then, the iPhone came out, and blew everyone away. Including Nokia's management. They quickly decided that they needed to compete with the iPhone, and ordered their research department to stop what it was doing with Maemo and create an iPhone-like device. Which they did; they changed Maemo until it looked very much like iOS (removing many of the features that made it unique), placed it onto a phone that looked like an iPhone (removing many of the features unique to Maemo phones), and finally released a device that was similar, but in every aspect inferior, to an iPhone.
But even that didn't matter. The management was ripping itself apart by now, and so they brought in a new CEO, Stephen Elop. Who had previously been an executive at Microsoft. And he had a plan -- he would axe the entire software development staff at Nokia, and switch all their devices over to using Microsoft Phone for their OS. The entire Maemo development team was being shown the door before the first Nokia iPhone clone was sold.
And, of course, Elop ran Nokia straight into the ground. Windows Phone was not ready for prime time, the remaining Nokia staff couldn't maintain their other operating systems, the company hemorrhaged cash, and finally Microsoft was able to swoop in and buy it for a song...
Anyway, tl;dr: Microsoft did not destroy Nokia. Nokia committed suicide.
Well, as I and many others have said in the past, the Mac mini has been confirmed by Tim Cook to be updated in the future! It should be expected to arrive in 2018 along with a load of new Macs that will excite the customer base again (although I guess most things would after the new MacBooks and the direction they’re implying).
Tim Cook says a new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming:
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/19/tim-cook-mac-mini-important-product/
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/19/tim-cook-mac-mini-important-product/
Tim Cook just wants to troll us and keep this thread going for another 430 pages....
I simply do not believe it. I call BS. Apple just has way too much money not to just go ahead and make this happen like yesterday, if they so desired. A flimsy statement like this does zero for me. "not ready for any actual information at this time" or whatever the exact quote was. Um, not buying it Tim. Exactly WHEN THE HELL would be a good time? 2020?
I am getting one of these. After years of "The new Commodore 64 is almost certainly coming.", and it happened before the Mac Mini update.
This is where it is probably going as we would all hate it:
A really modular mini stick with an A12 processor similar to an Intel Compute Stick. An optional docking station type case with lots of ports. Then a simple case for the mini stick if used in a server farm. A keyboard with touchID that could be used with the iMac Pro but also has a slot for the mini stick.
Hmm, that was 7710 from 2004, first and only "series90".
There is no o-line and x-line was from 2009, when iphone was already 3GS...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nokia_products
