Will there be new Mac Mini?

Will there be new Mac Mini?

Will there be new Mac Mini for 2018? I want to buy the latest one (2014 version) but very hard to find in my country Indonesia. Is it available in Singapore or Sydney? I may have upcoming trip to those cities.

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[Edited] There's quotation marks now.

Where do you see any quotation marks?

We here will know nothing about any new products before Apple announces a launch date. So that would apply also to where any new product may be launched. As you may have guessed, new items are not launched universally,

The often quoted, "The Mini is still an important part of or

product lineup" in some form or another is the only Apple

executive response when questioned by media about a new

Mac Mini.

This is all we know as users here as well.

> Speculation about the release of Apples products is against the Terms of Use for members of this forum.

Hmmm, quoting official apple statements is speculation? So in how far can we trust what apple tells us?

greetings from germany

Chris

[Edited] There's quotation marks now.

It would have been better to reference an Apple document since we don't know who exactly was being quoted.

[Edit 2] Apparently the source of the quote seems to be a reported email from Tim Cook to a blogger, so it isn't a truly verifiable declaration.

Lanny wrote:

I'm talking about the OP's response to my response, woodmeister50's quote is not related.

Am I missing something? As far as I can see the OP has not made a single post after the initial one.

The first and only real quotation made was woodmeisters's. It lacked attribution but seemed to be quoting an Apple source. I then searched online for the quote and found a dozen hits, but all from bloggers talking about a reputed email from Time Cook. So what appeared initially to be an authoritative quote still isn't an official release statement.

Craig Federighi has also in a form or another stated the same

"company line" in various interviews over the last year.

It doesn't mean there will be a new Mini nor does it mean the Mini

is dead. The statement actually says nothing at all in my opinion.

I was just stating the only information that was available about a new Mini

which is basically nothing. So we are still all in the dark.

Rudegar wrote:

also both statements

1

a new mac mini will be out soon

or

2

there will never be more mac minis

would hurt any sales of the current product

That could be true but not the approach they are taking with the Mac Pro which they

have said they are doing a redesign/rethink of the product.

Not arguing but just some observations.

I hope (because it's a lovely machine) and i don't (because it'll have just USB-C's ports). Also, I'm still awaiting for the introduction of ARM processors on Macs (sounds Apple has MacMini's with ARM inside in testing labs) but I'm begining to believe it will never be done for many reasons (not related to performance).

I would give it up for a "Mac Mini Pro" as long as it didn't resemble a coffee can. 😮

My vision has the same basic foot-print, only perhaps a little thicker or longer. It would have 4-8 core options, 4GB VRAM graphics, a user accessible PCIe slot and SSD bay, 4 user accessible RAM slots, plus retain some USB 3.0, Thunderbolt and HDMI ports, so that people do not have to daisy chain adapters to plug in external devices.

😝

@den.thed ... in your requirement listing (oops, right word?) you have forgotten:

- second drive bay for second hard disk. The ability to do internal disk mirroring is essential for "pro computers".

- not essential, but nice feature would be internal blueray burner with 4k ability.

- cores, cores, cores... much much more than 4-8 cores. For my software cores are more important than raw speed.

Ahem, some apple official rumoured about a new modular mac pro this year. Hmmm, maybe he talked about such a "modular mac mini pro" (Just kidding. Hope and dreams die at last)

greetings from germany

Chris

Opp's your right, I left out the s's after PCIe slots and SSD bays

Ideally it does not have to compete with or compare in power to the Mac Pro or new iMac Pro. It just needs to be where it belongs, which is somewhere in-between the current base model Mac Mini and the older Mac Pro's.

Come on please, it can not be that hard to design something in the middle of the road with empty slots and bays. Then only install a small PCIe and minimal RAM to save on hardware cost and let the user upgrade the Mac Mini from that point.

den.thed wrote:

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Come on please, it can not be that hard to design something in the middle of the road with empty slots and bays. Then only install a small PCIe and minimal RAM to save on hardware cost and let the user upgrade the Mac Mini from that point.

That's because all the effort is being put into

"disposable" gadgets that people will upgrade

every year or two.

How many people upgrade desktops every year or two?

> "disposable" gadgets that people will upgrade every year or two.

Disposable gadget? Oh no, please noooooo!

My desktop is a 8 year old machine (mac pro 2010 / 5.1), my webserver is a mac mini 2.1 from 2007. Both rock solid and in perfect working condition.

And i still have a power mac g4, the gray tower with 350 mhz. Running 10.3.9, my wife used this machine till 2016 as email machine. The case is lightly damaged, but still working perfectly.

Dispose them? Throw away perfect workhorses? NEVER NEVER NEVER.

The only thing i had to dispose has been the optical drive of the mini. It died in the first year. Replaced by warranty, no problems since.

Hmmm, the modern apple laptops are disposable, due to the fact that all components are glued welded riveted together to a monolithic block even gods cannot disassemble.

greetings from germany

Chris