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The new Mac mini is almost certainly coming
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Hilarious! But please, do not let Apple see that! In their current state of being unable to mention that the emperor is naked, some committee might get a hold of that and decide to run with it
Isn't this a vacuum cleaner?
I hope it Mac Mini 2021 will have to be turned upside down so that it can be charged with a lightning cable.
A reasonable assumption, and that case probably wouldn't be useful for a 'Mac Mini Pro' by name either but there's room for a cheaper to manufacture micro tower for Apple. Such a format is at least a decent fit for wifi aerials and could be made big enough for a large heat sink for cooling purposes.
Apple can re-purpose the Mac Pro trashcan as the Apple Homepod Pro (tm). Rather than Siri, the voice assistant is Dopi (of seven height-disadvantaged-people fame).
... and I would love to get one for collector reasons, if only the price wouldn't be so high. On the other hand: Apple's only in a corner when you think of a true powerhouse a.k.a. MacPro. For a mini the cylinder would have lots of headroom, both size- and temperaturewise. You could even say it'd be total overkill for a Mac mini. For a decent headless desktop on the other hand ... ;-) *scnr*
Neither are the modern components you mentioned - they're just of lower height. And a modern mini "Sphere" could well have a small size of - say - 4" diameter or less.
As we talk about re-purposing housing: Why not re-purpose the housing of the last Airport Extreme? Nice looks (like it better than the current AppleTV), sufficient room inside for modern components, unobtrusive.
I have one of these (actually a time capsule), do you? It's a terrible design, it's too tall and the base is too small. Very easy to knock over, especially with four stiff ethernet cables and a power cord connected to it (which also spoil any "design aesthetics"). I put mine on a high bookshelf where there was no chance of accidentally bumping into it and fastened the ethernet cables down.
The lack of a new mini is just making you guys goofy.
I somehow hope the new Mac Pro will have plenty of BTO and start at a low price. So everyone can configure a system to their needs.
I'm also hoping for this weeks lottery numbers and for my doctor to recommend I eat more steak and chips for health reasons.
With the current Mac Pro starting at $3000, I don't see how we could expect to pay any less for the new version - especially considering the $5000 price of the entry level iMac Pro.
Even deducting the retail cost of the screen, considering the base model will have at least one Xeon CPU, a Xeon system board, at least 32GB of ECC RAM, paired high-speed M.2 SSDs and a Vega 56 GPU (or perhaps the Quadro equivalent of a GTX 1070) I would be shocked if it was less than $3999. And if can support dual Xeons, shed-loads of RAM and multiple high-end GPUs then $4999 or more would not be unreasonable to expect, IMO.
Maybe you could just buy an empty case and put a base 2014 mini inside? You might pull that off for $1000.
If a MP with dual FirePro GPUs costs $3000, then a single FirePro should lower the cost, and a single consumer GPU should lower the cost further.
Ôki, I can hope for a new Mac Mini instead with a decent CPU and GPU. I would like one with a 6 core coffee lake CPU. Thanks.
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Let us know what your doctor says...I can hope for that too. Btw - I just read an article saying that it is even more important that you don’t eat for 16 hours a day than what you eat and how many calories....
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Yeah - configurable. Maybe they need different motherboards for that. Not everyone needs the mother of all computers.
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I'm also hoping for this weeks lottery numbers and for my doctor to recommend I eat more steak and chips for health reasons.
Let us know what your doctor says...I can hope for that too. Btw - I just read an article saying that it is even more important that you don’t eat for 16 hours a day than what you eat and how many calories....
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Yeah - configurable. Maybe they need different motherboards for that. Not everyone needs the mother of all computers.
Even if they use "off-the shelf" 16x PCIe video cards, considering the iMac Pro has AMD Vegas, I would expect those would be what the Mac Pro offers at a minimum. If they also offer nVidia, we're probably talking Quadro versions of the 1070 and 1080 and Quadro cards are a fair bit more expensive than the consumer models.
A Xeon W CPU lists for $1000-2000 and while Apple will pay less, they won't be charging less.
And if they go Xeon SP...the top-end Platinum models are $10,000 or more. Looks more like this thread.
Quadros never came with base model Mac Pros, so I wouldn't consider that when discussing base model mMP. In fact, base model cMPs never came with Pro cards at all. (I'd also argue that the nMP also doesn't come with Pro cards, but that gets nMP people riled up).
In any case, we are getting off the topic of Mac Minis.