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Unreleased 'Mid 2014' Mac Mini Referenced on Apple Support Page
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They probably did this on purpose because the couldn't wait any longer with people speculating.
I suspect it might be just a CPU upgrade to haswell. Hoping it's actually a bigger redesign.
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Or they could just continue bumping the current designs with spec bumps .
FYI we just got a new Mac Pro , maybe in two - three years time we might see a new design.
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Or they could just continue bumping the current designs with spec bumps .
FYI we just got a new Mac Pro , maybe in two - three years time we might see a new design.
Please no,
Redesign would mean soldered ram and ssd.
They would just use their supply from the Macbook Air or low-end iMac.
I really hope for a minor speed bump with the old design
I agree. I have a mini, I bought it solely as a media center desktop. And it works great for that. But, then it doesnt need to be state of the art.
I believe apple will keep the mini, but it will have slow updates in the future too, if it updates this year.
the iMac on the other hand I would like a refresh soon.
What worries me with these leaks. is that both the iMac and the mac mini says "Mid Year" (!!) while we are all ready passing mid year. So it might as well just be a mess up from some apple employee which have noe clue what they have in their inventory.
Woo hoo ! Fingers crossed, toes crossed. The Mini lives. My 2009 Mini is great and still going strong but a refresh would be very cool. Will wait to see the specs as I am planning an iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2 so not sure I'll have the funds for a Mini too but let's see.
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What I don't have is a laptop, I don't need one and when I got my iPad I gave my MacBook to my daughter. Different people have different needs and a new Mini is eagerly awaited, mine is 2009 and whilst it runs nicely (with ram and disk upgrades) a new one would be nice.
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My portable machine is my iPad (v1 and still used every day) and my Mini is my desktop/semi portable machine. It has enough power for me, is the home computer for my other Apple devices and my media library. It's used as a desktop for work and is connected to my TV for media and/or streams to tApple TV.
What I don't have is a laptop, I don't need one and when I got my iPad I gave my MacBook to my daughter. Different people have different needs and a new Mini is eagerly awaited, mine is 2009 and whilst it runs nicely (with ram and disk upgrades) a new one would be nice.
Didn't anyone noticed that there was no macmini server in the list. This means probably the macmini will get a redesign. Probably this was still an old list, put up in error. Therefore I think we'll still need to wait till next year for the release of the Broadwell cpu's. But I still hope we do get some refreshes/ speedbumps of all models with Haswell cpu's.
If anything, it'll probably contain an Intel Iris chip, which are actually reasonably good.
Sure, for the price, I'd like a better card, but I'd be happy if it had an Iris Pro. The Iris Pro 5200 is only about 15% behind the Nvidia 650M and 750M cards.
my expectations for this mid 2014 base model mini;
- Haswell processor
- 128 GB PCIe SSD
- 8 GB RAM
- usb 3.0
- intel iris iGPU
- Haswell processor
- 128 GB PCIe SSD
- 8 GB RAM
- usb 3.0
- intel iris iGPU
And 802.11ac Wi-Fi.
I'm not so sure a SSD will be standard. I think it could still be optional.
I don't think they will.Next will be Thinner not inflated^^.
Personally don't like the donuts design and i don't see a real need for that ,secondly i see the broadwell and then iris 6000 and some ssd within the path Apple could step in and honestly
a Broadwell-Skylake Mini would be gorgeous machine for me so ^^ last,if TB3 lands in with Skylake or even better ( even if rumors are not talking about this chance ) with Broadwell ,perhaps this time and external Gpus could realistically have a place beside it even if prefer my PSX4 to play for^^.
Sorry but a new Mac mini while very welcome would not move the share price because it represents such a small percentage of Apple's business.
I'm not convinced they will but if they do update the Mac mini I hope it's a complete re-design rather than a simple spec bump after all this time. A smaller version of the new Mac Pro in a range of colours would be nice.
I really hope that a mid 2014 update is true, as I'm otherwise going to have to pull the trigger on a hackintosh sometime in September (once I've finished some ongoing projects so I'll have time).
However, I really don't want to have to contend with drive issues, boot loaders etc., so if Apple releases even a modest Mac Mini update then I would jump at the chance.
Personally I expect they'll keep the same form factor for a Haswell update, with only minor changes (swap Firewire for Thunderbolt), as a case redesign would probably limit them to the 35W and 45W chips if they wanted to keep it quiet; anyone that's used a Brix Pro knows it's a pretty miserable machine thanks to the trade-offs of stuffing Iris Pro graphics into a too-small case. If the Mac Mini stays its current size then Iris Pro should be a mostly drop-in replacement, perhaps using the larger foot-print of the case for some passive cooling to avoid overburdening the fan.
I'm not sure how much I'd expect PCIe flash storage though; I guess it's possible if they want to free up the second 2.5" bay to make room for a bigger fan or something, otherwise I'm not sure how big a priority it would be for what would likely be an interim update.
I expect Apple had planned to put out a redesigned mini with Broadwell processors, but thanks to the delays they're forced to do a more modest update. Desktop Broadwell processors are likely stuck till July next year, and I wouldn't really expect the Mac Mini to be first to get them anyway, so an update now would make sense, with a Broadwell model released in a year or so.
I'm going to be annoyed if this doesn't pan out though, the wait has become torturous, as I wouldn't even been considering a hackintosh otherwise.
To a degree - - they would need to do the production line changeover and then they would want to clear down the onhand inventory levels of the current version (i.e., by selling them).
Possibly. Of course that would then also entail holding that new production inventory in a status where its drive can be flashed with the newer OS, or some other trick to compress WIP (Work in Process) inventory levels.
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Maybe the Mid 2014 Mac Mini might have a design parallel to the Mid 2014 iMac: save 16% from the base model price while getting half the cores, half the speed, and half the disk. Plus a soldered CPU and soldered memory, just for spite.
Unfortunately for Apple, they are losing their overall computer market share, their desktop market share, and their primary education market share. Failure to update the Mac Mini for nearly two years certainly hasn't helped.
Primary education buyers don't want to pay US$600 for a small form computer if they can get a US$200 small form computer which can do everything a Mini can do that's needed by the students. And that's why Chrome machines are making huge gains in the education market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebox
Includes mouse and keyboard; also dual video output HDMI/DisplayPort:
http://liliputing.com/2014/07/hp-chromebox-bundle-keyboard-mouse-now-available-199.html
Unfortunately for Apple, they are losing their overall computer market share, their desktop market share, and their primary education market share. Failure to update the Mac Mini for nearly two years certainly hasn't helped.
Primary education buyers don't want to pay US$600 for a small form computer if they can get a US$200 small form computer which can do everything a Mini can do that's needed by the students. And that's why Chrome machines are making huge gains in the education market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebox
Includes mouse and keyboard; also dual video output HDMI/DisplayPort:
http://liliputing.com/2014/07/hp-chromebox-bundle-keyboard-mouse-now-available-199.html
Apple may announce an Yosemite event and at this launch the new mini and the new iMac 27 (4K?), hopes at least mini internals upgraded to Haswell, including Iris/Iris pro plus pcie ssd. And a new iMac with 4K display (a 4K tb display too of course) and upgraded cpu/gpu at least.
Why would you hope for a redesign if you don't want one anyway?
I'm sure if it's some glued together 9mm thick PCIe-flash, soldered RAM form-before-function toy it will annoy absolutely everybody apart from the can't bear to buy an Apple TV crowd who can't conceive of any other use than Plex/XBMC.
I don't know, but apple seems hellbent on making their desktop devices smaller and more streamlined. The iMac for one could have stayed as it was but it was thinned out for design reasons. The Mac Pro was redesigned in an odd yet purposeful manner. I can see the Mac Mini losing the Ethernet adapter and many of the USB ports to make it cheaper and thinner. This will push people toward the iMac and rejuvenate the mac mini as a viable low end system as it originally was. I seem to recall it starting at $499. But it has since moved up to $599.
Can you imagine it coming out in a completely solid state format like the iPad and being $299, $399, $499?
I expect this update to be on par with the low end imac basically Air internals minus the ssd. I would hope that there are two versions including a slightly more powerful one. If after all this time and all the speculation, a low end imac based version is the best they can come up with though I won't complain too much, but gee whiz why take so long?
