There you go. I hope it isn't true though, but if you do read closely it says the overnights will be smaller meaning it could be the mini!
http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/15/apple-store-overnights-happening-july-24-mountain-lion-launch-the-next-day/
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Cuz there was no official announcement from apple. And I read somewhere it was saying that macrumors was saying the mini is end of life. But anyhow there was no official announcement and no other proof that it needs to be refreshed any time soon or that it ever will.
I was replying to where this was posted, pro's and mini's:
I know the laptops sell for more and they sell more of them, but I guarantee they sell a LOT more mini's than mac pro's and it's profit that matters not which sells for the highest price. That's what I was talking about. I don't think anyone in their right mind would claim the mini's outsell the laptops or imac's.
Everything you read on Macrumors is true.
I have this bridge to sell you. You've read it here first.
Since you didn't quote the post about the pro, and this is the mini forum, not the pro forum, it was reasonable of me to assume you were talking about the mini.
I understand that professionals are getting the message from Apple and are moving on to other hardware vendors. I was told that H-P hardware is becoming popular with graphic design types.I am so sick of Apple's PR machine games. I work for a media company and we need to order some Macs soon. I have to tell them that Apple might be releasing new macs soon, or might not. Nobody knows.
This kind of childish hype generation is getting old. It makes it impossible to plan corporate IT effectively. We literally had budgeted for 4x17 MBPs as filed FCP machines. But now we have to go with 15" MBPs and game the BTO configs so they hit almost the same price point. Yes corporate budgets are silly as hell!
Every other computer company has well known release dates for new iterations. Though I garner from Apples lack of updates on the Mac Pro and deep sixing of the Xserve and xsan that they dont really care about the corporate clients.
Too bad. I wouldnt mind converting 3/4ths of the systems here to Macs.
My budget for next year would have no problem with it. But I can't even say for certain that the models I budget for this year will be available next year. Nor can I count on them to be current tech next year.
I understand that professionals are getting the message from Apple and are moving on to other hardware vendors. I was told that H-P hardware is becoming popular with graphic design types.
Last year my office bought an HP workstation to run MATLAB. Even then, its specs exceeded the best Mac Pro. It appears to me that Apple is ceding that market and doesn't want our money.It's like the IOS device money has them thinking they only need to focus on consumers, not corporate clients.
Kind of a bad strategy. My budget for new IT is about $200k next year. Half of that could be Apples if they took corporate IT more seriously.
I'd say next week, but who knows. Might be in October with the iMac launch if it isn't next week. I'd want one with an quad core i7 standard, so I can go into stores and pick it up launch day.
Do you think is possible that Apple would release the Mac mini this week, and the iMac in October.
Nope. It seems they want doing it this way:
Q1: iPad
Q2: Mobile Macs
Q3: Desktop Macs
Q4: iPhone / iPods
Even when ignoring this quarter based analyze of their recent releases, it simply wouldn't make sense releasing the iMac at a different point in time than the Mini.
I need a Mac mini badly but I don't want to buy one and the next day new one comes out!!
Do you think is possible that Apple would release the Mac mini this week, and the iMac in October.
Someone on twitter wrote:
new iMac/Mac Mini should be out by August-end, and will be available in India by Sept 15th. He said it was a pretty sure guess