Is the Mac mini dead?

[Ice_Dragon]

Do you think a new one will be out this year, next year, or is it being killed off? Thoughts?

 

[TheStu]

The Mini has always been on a slow release schedule, but seriously, you should ask the question about the Mac Pro. Thought Apple has said that they are going ot update that early next year.

 

[Ice_Dragon]

I can't afford a Mac Pro and even if I could, I have no use for it. I do want it to continue because I think there is a market for it. I am sick of all the iDevices. I realize they're profitable but Apple to me has and always will be a computer company first.

 

[Kaido]

I don't think the Mini will go away. Apple still needs a transition device. Most Apple owners I know are either iMac or Macbook Pro, however. For the price of a Mini, you can build a pretty nice Hackintosh if you don't mind tinkering.

 

[Ice_Dragon]

I suppose I'll wait it out and see what happens because I don't think I want to tinker.

 

[dclive]

I always found tinkering to be soooo annoying. Yes, it installs easily now (well, easily for a Hackintosh; compared to a Mac, like netbooting and walking away, it's a pain, but it's better than it was) but upgrades are still sooooo risky, and I just don't see the point. I have an iMac with 6970M graphics now, and a 27" screen, and I never looked back. With the advent of cheaper Macs (Mac mini is $599, $500 on a good deal at Amazon Warehouse; Macbook Air is $749 for a decent superthin 2GB/64GB 13" model for the luddite in you, or $900 (MacMall) for the latest-gen 11" 4GB/128GB)...at those prices, I just didn't see the point of fiddling forever with a PC that was essentially guaranteed at some point to horribly fail.

My time became worth something to me, I guess....

 

[Ice_Dragon]

And I'm not in a rush for the IB Mini but I would like to see it get updated just to see the available parts in the package.

 

[Wonderful Pork]

I hope its not discontinued - I want a next gen one for an HTPC. I hope they do something with the design to make it draw less power, that would be fantastic!

I have a first gen AppleTV (with HDD) which I run Boxee on, but you can't jailbreak the 3rd gen yet, and I don't want to stream everything to it, I want a self contained unit. Doesn't even have to be Apple!

 

[Kadarin]

Mac Mini is great for hooking up to a tv, and nice if you're looking for a very small form factor for basic or always on home server type use.

 

[Tegeril]

I'm excited for an update, as long as it appears after Monday (when one of my older ones sells on eBay)

 

[dagamer34]

None of the desktop Macs have been updated this year. All signs point to October, otherwise they will have pretty much skipped 2012.

 

[mmntech]

Mac has sort of gotten pushed to the back burner lately. Apple is focusing all their efforts on developing the iPhone and iPad. A quad core and SSD option would make it a nice little video editing rig.

 

[runawayprisoner]

The 2011 Mac Mini did have a quad-core option.

Anyway, if Apple wants to have an event to announce stuffs, then we should see indications of it by now... or at the latest, end of next week.

Looks to me like they'll just quietly do a specs-bump on iMac...

 

[Ice_Dragon]

Yeah I am hoping we see something in October because frankly this is getting ridiculous. You would think we would at least hear some Digitimes rumors by now.

 

[runawayprisoner]

This would also effectively rule out that iPad Mini that people have been raving about so much.

But we'll see... still one week to go.

 

[Rottie]

I hope so for new Mac Mini..if not I might go with iMac anyway

 

[rugby]

It won't be discontinued, it's their server platform.

 

[cheez]

Mac has sort of gotten pushed to the back burner lately. Apple is focusing all their efforts on developing the iPhone and iPad. A quad core and SSD option would make it a nice little video editing rig.

The 2011 Mac Mini did have a quad-core option.

Anyway, if Apple wants to have an event to announce stuffs, then we should see indications of it by now... or at the latest, end of next week.

Looks to me like they'll just quietly do a specs-bump on iMac...

Ha ha mmntech got corrected for good!

hilarious

 

[mmntech]

The 2011 Mac Mini did have a quad-core option.

Anyway, if Apple wants to have an event to announce stuffs, then we should see indications of it by now... or at the latest, end of next week.

Looks to me like they'll just quietly do a specs-bump on iMac...

Just on the server model though. 1TB of storage is nice but I think I'd rather have the HD 6630 for GPGPU work. Especially stuff like After Effects.

 

[quackagator]

Coming out next week.
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/10/18...-current-pricing-add-8-gb-ram-module-options/

 

[runawayprisoner]

And... a "quiet" specs bump for Mac Mini as well, it seems.

I hope we'll see a redesign, though. Make the Mac Mini more like the Apple TV (2nd gen) and I'll seriously drop a grand on the thing. It's a perfect HTPC, if nothing else.

 

[Ice_Dragon]

Well thankfully I was wrong and I am happy with a quad-core processor on the $799 model. What does surprise me is them not using the 35W option.