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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming

smithrh said:
You might try running it as an external for a while - my first EVO 1TB died after 10 days. PITA to remove it again and wait for the RMA replacement, then re-install it.
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Thanks.

I was going to do a clean install and data transfer with it in an external drive anyway, so I might leave it in there for a bit first.
 
As we near the end of March, I’m getting excited for the imminent release of the new Mac Mini. 😀

As the path of least resistance, I think the most likely refresh takes the form of new processors on a new motherboard in the same enclosure.

I'm looking forward to quad core again now that the 28W/GT3e parts are in evidence. June would be nice, and there’s good reason to expect socketed DDR4 with a 32 GB max 😉

I know many have given up, but I think the wait won’t be much longer... at least compared to the Mac Pro, which could be another year away. (But I think it will ship in 2018!)
 
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Apple to Host March 27 Event in Chicago: 'Creative New Ideas for Teachers and Students'

Could there be a new Mac Mini in the mix? Schools, teachers and students must surely be in the target market.
 
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Micky Do said:
Could there be a new Mac Mini in the mix? Schools, teachers and students must surely be in the target market.
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If a student wants a PC, they want a laptop, not a desktop. As such, we're likely to see a cheaper iPad and cheaper MacBook Air. Mac Mini is not relevant to this event or it's customers.
 
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Unfortunately that educational event already attracted all sorts of dreamers (not Dreamers) hoping for, like, new iPhone SE, because students could use it. That way of thinking suggests Apple could refresh all of their products and software at once, because students use everything. But. I think that there is a good chance to see a cheap iPad model with pencil support, announcement that the enormous trackpads in current Macbook Pros will now support the pencil...and that will be it.

Mac Mini is almost certainly coming in June. Or September. Or a PC company will finally accidentally produce a NUC using the parts that allow to run macOS without needing to replace anything. I think the latter is most likely 🙁
 
New Mini on the 27th?
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Micky Do said:
Apple to Host March 27 Event in Chicago: 'Creative New Ideas for Teachers and Students'

Could there be a new Mac Mini in the mix? Schools, teachers and students must surely be in the target market.
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Just seeing this. My gut tells me that an ARM based Mini is precisely what the education market is desperate for.
 
dogslobber said:
Just seeing this. My gut tells me that an ARM based Mini is precisely what the education market is desperate for.
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Exactly. Now make sure that its only port is a lightning port placed on the bottom.

Personally, I'm betting on Apple Pencil Socks.

I'm still waiting for the day when Jony's crew gets back to solving problems people actually have, like what would a Mac user, who already has a monitor, keyboard, and mouse that they prefer, use to run Mac OS? How hard is it to recognize and service that market segment? I fear that the next Mac mini, if it comes at all, comes with only 2 thunderbolt ports. One will be for power from the 5k Apple Monitor, which will act as the docking station for legacy port needs. The other will be the dongle access port.

This is what I want: an Intel nuc sized Mac mini with an 8650U CPU, 32GB RAM option, NVMe SSD, 4 USB 3.1 A ports, 2 Thunderbolt ports, audio jack with optical, SD card slot, external power brick with power delivered from USB C PD. I would buy this without hesitation.
 
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dogslobber said:
New Mini on the 27th?
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Just seeing this. My gut tells me that an ARM based Mini is precisely what the education market is desperate for.
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It's what YOU are desperate for, since you mention it all the time.
The rest of us? Meh to Meh minus on the whole ARM thingie
 
Count Blah said:
It's what YOU are desperate for, since you mention it all the time.
The rest of us? Meh to Meh minus on the whole ARM thingie
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Mmmh ...
  • Merger of iOS & Mac App Store incoming.
  • Full control (i.e. no 3rd party dependency) of Ax chips for Apple.
  • Significant price cuts for Macs expected (fits nicely to above).
  • Ax CPU already integrated in current Macs.
  • Current Ax CPU‘s already equaling raw power of Macs only a few years old (i.e. sufficient).
  • Win emulation (e.g. via VirtualPC) more than sufficient for most tasks.
  • Economies of scale improve with higher numbers.
I am not desperate for an Ax based Mac, but I do see a strong case for one! And increasingly less arguments against.

Could be e.g. both a revamped MBA and a revamped mini, sharing the same motherboard, with the mini allowing to be extended to a full-fledged MacPro with standard x86 CPU’s and other niceties.
 
PickUrPoison said:
As we near the end of March, I’m getting excited for the imminent release of the new Mac Mini. 😀

As the path of least resistance, I think the most likely refresh takes the form of new processors on a new motherboard in the same enclosure.

I'm looking forward to quad core again now that the 28W/GT3e parts are in evidence. June would be nice, and there’s good reason to expect socketed DDR4 with a 32 GB max 😉

I know many have given up, but I think the wait won’t be much longer... at least compared to the Mac Pro, which could be another year away. (But I think it will ship in 2018!)
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Apple has actually announced there will be a new Mac Pro; that is the main difference.

As for the Mini, all we have is the corporate double-speak of “It remains an important product in our lineup.”, which translates to “We’re going to continue to milk the rubes with the 2014 version for a while longer.”

If there was going to be a new Mini, Cook would have said so... bluntly. Instead he used corporate jive talk. The guy is a jive turkey, as far as I’m concerned.
 
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EightyTwenty said:
If there was going to be a new Mini, Cook would have said so... bluntly.
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Yes. Having already bought a Windows replacement for my Mini, Cook is going to have to work extra hard on an awesome machine, at a low price, to win back my business. Cook knows a lot of people are making this decision, yet continues to waffle. A waffle is something you eat, or have as a pattern on the bottom of your shoe, not something you run software on.
Mac Pro in 2019, maybe Mini in 2020? I went from 8mHz Macintish to 25mHz Mac IIci in less time than that. By 1990 top speed was at 40 mHz. -A quad core 13gHz Mini seems about right for 2020, for about $700.
 
CWallace said:
If a student wants a PC, they want a laptop, not a desktop. As such, we're likely to see a cheaper iPad and cheaper MacBook Air. Mac Mini is not relevant to this event or it's customers.
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Agreed that most students after a PC, want a laptop, and a cool one at that.

But still there are some students who may prefer a desktop for one reason or another........ For one, when the iPhone and iPad came out my students reckoned that to get the most out of them they needed to be complemented by a Mac computer. I guess that has not changed, and a cheap(ish) and cheerful Mac Mini would fit the bill.

As a teacher I prefer use a desktop with a decent sized monitor at home, to a pokey little screen on a laptop designed to be toted from home to office or campus, to cheeky cafe, day to day.

I seldom carry a phone (just own a 6 or 7 year-old $22 Nokia which lasts a week or two between charges.), and don't have a tablet. When I leave my desk I am off line, and I like it that way.

I occasionally take my Mac Mini to work, to use with an LCD projector in class, and am fine with that. Can be hooked up and booted in a couple or three minutes, and packed away in a minute or so. However, these days I am taking the Mini to work more than in the past, increasingly the textbooks I use are supplemented by downloadable material instead of CD/DVD. I can see the case for having laptop (such as a base model MacBook Air) to supplement the desktop, but not replace it.

As for schools which may want a large number of computers for a lab or classroom; the Mac Mini is a cost effective way to go, especially if they prefer go MacOS.

In short the Mac Mini is relevant to an event focused on teachers and students...... and the new Mac Mini is almost certainly coming...... sooner or later.
 
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