“While this could signal an updated model coming in, they have been told by Apple to expect no more of it. Their impression is that—once again—the Mac mini may be dead dead DEAD for real, even while you can still order it at the Apple Store,” Diaz reports.
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Well that sucks major balls. I was looking for an updated unit to run Aperture…. nads!!!
http://tmsruge.com
Noooooooo 🙁
Let’s hope for a mac nano !!! Please.. love this little machine…
Yeah, because with the new Nvidia chips, everyone would get it instead of an iMac.
I doubt it personally. The mini was basically a macbook without the monitor/display, keyboard, and trackpad. So, it makes more sense to me to expect a revised mini (and perhaps iMac), which feature the new GPU’s and so forth.
R, they would? Sorry, I don’t see how an all-in-one competes with a system box. You get the system box and you have to get a monitor and all the other associated ‘stuff’ to make it usable. You have an iMac and you are not likely to have a monitor you can switch to your new system box, you have the system box and what are you going to do with your monitor when you switch to an iMac?
Please, PLEASE, let them grow the mini up to be the midi I’ve been hoping for.
with a display port
NO DOUBT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RIP mini.
Noooooooooo… from me also.
We’ll, at least now we know what questions will be asked to ‘ol Pete today…maybe he can talk about the mini burial instead of next quarters guidance. Would be a good distraction.
The timing of this article is impeccable. Hmmmm.
That’s crap. They wouldn’t. I’m not saying they can’t. But they wouldn’t.
I mean it, though saying “everyone” is an overstatement. Everyone that I’ve known to switch to an iMac from their Windows box has talked about the huge power leap the iMac was for them. These are the folks who don’t really care about specs. And like it or not, that’s the majority of computer buyers– the ones who allow companies like Dell to exist on razor thin margins off of huge sale numbers.
With a powerful mini, there’s no need for an iMac, particularly because the Nvidia graphics are leaps and bounds above the current mini.
I’d like to be wrong (I want a new one for my first HDtv), but if this does happen, it makes sense to me from this angle.
The Mac Mini is a great switcher’s machine. Most people running Windows boxes don’t like the idea of scrapping their “perfectly good” monitor & keyboard. They prefer baby steps.
I would have switched to a Mac desktop about a year and a half later if the Mini wasn’t available at that time (late 2005).
Nooooooooooooooo! from SPAIN
See? Not content to just remove firewire, they’re now killing off whole product lines that have it!
Mark my words, firewire is being intentionally and systematically killed by Apple. First the iPod, then the portables, then the cinema display (did anyone even notice in the hubbub over the portables?) now the mini.
WHO’S NEXT!!?
I’ll bet this is to make room for the big a$$ table!!
Just a rumor…
Apple shouldn´t do that because without Mac Mini or in other product they can´t have more switchers,they should in other case low the production of every mac they discontinued and continue to retail them as an option to the user.I HATE when Apple discontinues a product that i was going/preparing to buy,its doesn´t make sense,and they are to replace the Mac Mini with what? if they haven´t prepare another product to replace it?I will wait the answer…
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO…
I have a 24″ monitor and a new Apple keyboard already, I don’t need an iMac and a Mac Pro is overkill! Please please replace it with something… like a Mac nano!
Say it isn’t so. I think the Mac Mini is a great entry point for those who are either new to computers or new to Apple computers. (The people that I know who are new to computers know someone who can give them a spare (old) key, mouse, monitor. When my in-laws get back next week from a cruise, they want to be able to get online and they are planning on purchasing a Mac Mini with our help. My wife and I are giving them an old 19 inch flat panel monitor, keyboard and mouse.)
Peace.
Maybe they’re going to finally combine the apple TV and mac Mini into one new uber product.
if you really want one, contact me and i will sell you mine. i am planning to upgrade to 2 imacs for the fam. my g5 will be a server, and the mini needs a new home.
Apple needs to have a low-end Intel integrated graphics Mac Mini for PC switchers, non-gamers and those with very little money – those who know it is a little crippled but don’t care. Then they need a high end Mac Mini for those with media centre needs.
My plan 2 years ago was to only buy Mac Mini’s but the cost was too high and the product was crippled. The MacBook/24″ monitor combination is good but you can’t run the MacBook with the lid closed. The Mac Mini is still a good combo but needs a more capable version and a cheaper version, scrapping the middle ground.
What f _ _ king shame!
Mac Nano. Now with display port, FireWire 800, SuperDrive and built-in AirPort Server as standard. From £349/$789.
If the above was true then I wouldn’t wait.
You know, I don’t think the Mac Mini could have possibly had ‘bad’ sales. My own family has three, in addition to several apple laptops, a powermac and a couple imacs.. (big family) I think the original g4 one was a bit weak, but the couple intel ones we have are great. We use one as a media center because the AppleTV is crippled and doesn’t have a DVD player or Safari for watching online shows. So, I think this leaves a gaping hole in the under $1k market. I would like a combined mini/TV that could be used exclusively with a new version of front row, if desired, or as a regular mac when needed. Add a displayport with a displayport to hdmi/component connector and we’re golden.