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What to Expect From an Apple Event in October: iPad Mini 7, Redesigned Mac Mini, and More

It's weird. I have two iPad Mini 6's. Both are 256 GB. When I looked at trade-in values 10-14 days ago:

Space Gray Cellular (Verizon)
$235.00 Apple Trade-In
$185.00 Best Buy Trade-In

Starlight Wifi Only
$235.00 Apple Trade-In
$350.00 Best Buy Trade-In

I have no idea why the Starlight was worth so much more at BB given its wifi only. Is the color more rare? Anyway, I traded in the Starlight one b/c of the value. Hope the mini 7 rumors are true!
 
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Bring on the Mac mini! I wonder if we'll see keyboard and monitor updates as well??? Hardly any rumors on those accessories.
 
Bezel thickness, and display resolution. The iPad mini was cool at first, but when I bought the iPad mini 6 with cellular and more than that base storage, I was pretty disappointed after it was delivered, and it’s become just a single-use device for viewing Ring cameras from my front door.

To the people who have said that they hoped that the iPad mini could be $150 cheaper, I totally hear you and can see a spot for a small iPad that’s even cheaper than a regular iPad. The way that I’m using the iPad mini 6 is effectively as an overpriced low end iPad that literally has a single app that I use on it. But that is not the iPad mini that I want or am happy to pay for.

I’d like an iPad mini that is a smaller version of the iPad Pro, and has a normal/cheap camera. I think I paid $759 for the mini 6, and that seems like a pretty reasonable price for an 8 inch device with really good resolution and thin or average bezels.
 
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quietstormSD said:
If it's just a bump in chips and slight changes in hardware, I don't see why Apple would make an event out of it.
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Because it gets more visibility.
I mean, if it was just one product, they wouldn't bother. But since it's gonna be many, then an event makes sense.
 
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Le0M said:
Because it gets more visibility.
I mean, if it was just one product, they wouldn't bother. But since it's gonna be many, then an event makes sense.
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Exactly...

Between it being the first time the M4 generation is in Macs; plus a new hardware chassis for the Mac mini, why not make a video to live stream it?
 
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Jamie0003 said:
For the mini, I’m happy with an all USB C design, as long as it can be powered via a hub.

The other thing I want to be able to do is use it with my iPad Pro as the main display, using sidecar. Not sure if this is possible now but would be sweet if it does happen
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If the mini has USB-C power, and if the new Mac Virtual Display on the Vision Pro is really like two 4K displays, then together they could be a candidate to replace my MacBook Pro.
 
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iPad mini is my bed device, the current generation is doing fine but I don't mind looking for an excuse to buy the new generation.

What we need is JIT compilations to emulate Windows 10 and 11 in our M4 iPads.
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no you dont...

imagine what battery life would be like on a tablet... you only have to see what Surface devices are like running Windows on battery. if you want to run Windows, buy a cheap Windows laptop.

Windows Touch is also pretty ordinary. very very few times does a finger on screen work better than a mouse. hitting a button is about it. anything more is just an exercise in frustration. Hence Apple made iOS to be touch first and MacOS to be mouse first.
 
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I doubt the mini will have front facing ports. They had from 2012 to do so (when optical went away).
 
btrach144 said:
Bring on the Mac mini! I wonder if we'll see keyboard and monitor updates as well??? Hardly any rumors on those accessories.
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No leaks or rumors on Magic Keyboard, Mouse or Trackpad because Apple has to put out new ones with USB-C if it wants to keep selling them in the EU in 2025 and beyond.

However, seeing what Apple just did with AirPods Max, and just switched the ports and did some new colors, I can’t imagine Apple is going to do anymore than just switched the ports from Lightning to USB-C and call it a day.

Apple’s big update to Magic Keyboard was the recent addition of Touch-ID that they introduced with the M1 iMac.

Apple won’t redesign any of its Magic accessories but just switch the ports to USB-C.

At best, it’s USB-C and then there’s a new selection of iMac colors that are different from the hues we got with the M1 and M3 iMacs.
 
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Yvan256 said:
Can we please stop using that fake Mac mini redesign concept? The radius of the rounded corners are way oversized versus the size of the Mac mini and would remove even more room at the back for ports.

And that logo is way too big and looks out of place, it should be much smaller. Look at previous Mac minis and also at the previous Apple TV models for reference. The logo is always kept at around a certain size versus the top surface area.
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I’ll guess the proportions will echo the Mac Studio, and not be a “fat” tv. That concept image (ignoring the disproportionate logo) is the latter.

Basically, instead of shrinking the current Mini chassis, they will shrink the current Studio chassis.
 
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What do you think?
8GB or 16GB as standard on the base model?

Given AI and how l-o-n-g it's been since the M1 came out with only 8GB.
I'm sure they would dare not put just 8GB into this thing.

Your guesses?
 
We should get more rumors regarding macs as we are approaching October, maybe tomorrow in Gurman's newsletter we'll have some to talk about
 
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