I'm in the market for a Mini - nothing else here is needed. Come on Mac Mini!!!!
Intel NUC running Linux.
Apple has moved outside the area my wallet is willing to pay.
Apple has also deprecated, dumped a lot of things I found useful (OSX server is loosing features so fast it will probably be gone soon), Airport base stations, Time capsules , etc.
Apples hardware is now considered unrepairable, their new "Green" credentials are "buy a new one", want a RAM upgrade, buy a new Mac, want a bigger SSD, buy a new Mac, keyboard failing buy a new Mac.
And even while Apple went from ADB to USB to Firewire to FW800 to Thunderbolt, etc etc Ethernet was still there as was USB-A, now you are forced to buy adaptors/hubs.
The USB-C cable that come with the laptop is a power only cable, it would have cost Apple only a couple of bucks to make it a power/data cable. Buy a new power supply, you don't even get a cable, thats an additional cost over and above Apples already high profit margin.
You can NOT buy a Mac without a mouse/keyboard. We need wired keyboards (less likely to be stolen), so we have to buy a 3rd party keyboard.
Through work I get MS Office for home for free, it also comes with 1TB of cloud storage.
Siri does not work on the ATV4s in New Zealand, it does on the iPhone, iPad, OSX, just not the ATV4....why ???
We get no "TV" in iTunes, so we are subscribers to Netflix/Amazon, Apple has lost that market here, and I will NOT subscribe to Apple Music, I have a radio that gives me music for free.
USB-C adaptors (including Apples) are unreliable, I have had 2 new laptops the adaptor will only work in one of them.
Sorry, but Apple has lost its way (again...).