Video of 'Leaked' Next-Gen Mac Mini?

[Cravendale]

Looks terrible.

Fake.

 

[GeekLawyer]

Replace the DVI port with an HDMI port and it would become real.

Real as in real? Or real as in I'll-go-along-with-it-wishful-thinking real?

 

[sam10685]

It's unbelievable how excited some people get about something that basically already exists.

 

[Peace]

HDMI port on a Mac? How can this be?

What the guy has is a development model. The reason it has dvi and mini-display port is to test the graphics on older displays that use DVI and new ones that use display port.

I'm sure there are other models in development that have hdmi to test on HD TV's.

just an opinion mind you.

 

[motulist]

If this guy posts a video of the Mac Mini booting up, would that convince you sceptics?

It might help, but it certainly wouldn't convince me in a definitive way. I would be MUCH more convinced if he popped it open and showed us the internals. That would be much MUCH more difficult to fake in a believable way.

 

[jackjason]

This is a prototype.
if we see this in July, then we can be angry @ apple.

2 years? no redesign? still puting the same product and sell it to us?

 

[trip1ex]

OK if not fake then it is a prototype or old Mini with a new back panel.

 

[kabunaru]

I'm sure there are other models in development that have hdmi to test on HD TV's.

Apple might be making a TV as well.
As for the Mac Mini, it's good that it will have HDMI. I wonder when all the Macs will have HDMI though.

 

[MacGeekDC]

I thought it was fake but a video makes me think twice. Seeing it running and plugged into a display would make me believe.

 

[motulist]

Why would it make it seem more fake than a photo?

Because if he has such easy access to it that he can take a full video instead of just snapping a quick spy picture, then why wouldn't he show us a million times more than he's already showed us? The only reason to post something like this if you have early access to it is to get props and attention, and the more evidence he'd post then the more props and attention he would get. So if he has total access to this machine, why would he just post a very short video of him simply spinning the outside case around? The answer is, he probably wouldn't, which is why this video makes me more inclined to think it's fake.

 

[The Samurai]

How could this be fake, looks authentic/genuine to me.

 

[cmichaelb]

Some won't be satisfied until they can put their fingers through the USB port holes.

Wait.

What?

Post of the year

 

[marbles]

my guess , it'll released this `coming Tuesday or the next at the latest .

I am a believer now .

low end macbooks and new mini will stay white , cool

 

[kabunaru]

Because if he has such easy access to it that he can take a full video instead of just snapping a quick spy picture, then why wouldn't he show us a million times more than he's already showed us? The only reason to post something like this if you have early access to it is to get props and attention, and the more evidence he'd post then the more props and attention he would get. So if he has total access to this machine, why would he just post a very short video of him simply spinning the outside case around? The answer is, he probably wouldn't, which is why this video makes me more inclined to think it's fake.

Very logical thinking but I still think this is a prototype Mac Mini.

 

[sanity]

Too bad that there isn't a centralized place to go to find information on this worldwide connection of computers.

Yeah, someone really needs to come up with something like that. If there was, I'd name it ogle or goo-gone or gongle... or similar.

 

[preservative]

Does it have built in gps?

 

[Tallest Skil]

Very logical thinking but I still think this is a prototype Mac Mini.

This is good logic.

Okay, here's how I see it.

It has been three days since he originally posted the first picture.

If Apple legal hasn't gone after all of us sites that even HAVE the pictures, then Apple doesn't care.

Because it isn't what they're doing anymore.

 

[Peace]

This is good logic.

Okay, here's how I see it.

It has been three days since he originally posted the first picture.

If Apple legal hasn't gone after all of us sites that even HAVE the pictures, then Apple doesn't care.

Because it isn't what they're doing anymore.

BINGO!! Give the man a prize!

 

[APPLENEWBIE]

Fake, me thinks

The device in the video looks to have very little mass, the way it moves. The mini is one densely packed little box.

Also... no Apple lawyers = no real mini...

 

[termite]

Today in fakey fake

Nice threedee mockup.

I note that the mini-displayport appears to be missing the center part of the connector. Coincidentally, a mini-displayport is the only part that is really expensive to obtain -- you have to sacrifice a unibody MacBook to get one.

 

[kabunaru]

This is good logic.

Okay, here's how I see it.

It has been three days since he originally posted the first picture.

If Apple legal hasn't gone after all of us sites that even HAVE the pictures, then Apple doesn't care.

Because it isn't what they're doing anymore.

Or Apple doesn't want to take it down because people will know it's real or 98%-99% close to real (since being a prototype).

 

[dubhe]

It might be an expired prototype or a recent pipedream. Either way, it isn't real.

 

[iPie]

If it's real, why doesn't he pick it up? Rotating it awkwardly on a wooden table seems a bit odd. He doesn't want us to see the base...

If it's a fake, why doesn't he pick it up? Rotating it awkwardly on a wooden table seems a bit odd. He doesn't want us to see the base...

So it must be real then, right?

 

[marbles]

The device in the video looks to have very little mass, the way it moves. The mini is one densely packed little box.

Also... no Apple lawyers = no real mini...

Yes , but it could also mean that it is the Apple marketing department 'leaking' images (again)

 

[cmichaelb]

Just a theory...

Could this be just some companies viral marketing to sell modded mac minis?