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frank777 said:

Agreed on the port situation. Apple should have found the "courage" to go all USB3/Thunderbolt.

If a future rev can go all USB-C, add SSD standard and a T2 chip, it would be pretty much perfection.

I couldn't disagree more. Keep some legacy ports. Add more USB-C, Thunderbolt 3, others as they mature. More ports of all types is good. I wish there were USB-C and USB-A 3.0 on the front. Instead, my iMac and Mini look like bowls of spaghetti with hubs, dongles and extensions sticking out all over just so I can have the number and types of ports I want and use. But at least the iMac and Mini looks smooth, sleek and unblemished in half shadow on the store website.

HDD is a better $/GB for us tightwads.  Good enough is sometimes good enough. 

Pylons said:

Oh please please Apple, give us a Pro-focused Mac mini with standard user-replaceable m.2 SSD and SO-DIMM DDR4. Having integrated non-upgradable SSD and RAM is ridiculous in anything but the thinnest ultrabook form factor.

Ryzen CPU + Vega GPU would be great, or the Intel i7-8809G (Vega graphics).

Or perhaps an Apple take on the Shuttle XPC slim DH310?

But since Apple hasn't showed any care at all for users wanting a machine without screen since 2014 I'm not holding my breath. =(

The fastest Mac mini is still the 2012 model (quad core, while the 2014 model is dual core only as you all know).

Love the Shuttle XPC slim DH310.  Especially the very low price, access and flexibility.  Add a couple of TB3 ports and wrap the outside in cheese grater design and you have heaven.  Make a number of versions for different user markets (servers, developers, "thrifty" consumers).  I think people could handle it without being confused.   Can't the world's biggest company make a basic, useful machine? Do they all have to be so sleek, minimalist and revolutionary that they never get released?

majorsl said:

rogifan_new said:

StrangeDays said:

rogifan_new said:

So is this going to be a Mac Mini Pro? And is there something that will actually make it “pro” or is it just a way for Apple to raise the price? Customers will be pissed if the only new Mac Mini is one that’s more expensive.

Here we go again. First you complain about it being too old, too low-spec’d...now with new hardware you’ll complain that it’s too expensive. Classic.

So releasing a new model with updated specs means they need to increase the price?

$20 says it'll have more modern ports on the back with expandable RAM and accessible drive bays... just like the 2012 model, but it'll be "Pro" because it'll be expandable just like the old model. Innovative at a Pro price.

Just what I was hoping for to replace my 2012 Mac Mini but what I expect is:

1. something the size of a deck of cards, but thinner.
2. made out a new alloy of "unobtanium" with a revolutionary new shade of anodizing so that it can not possibly be confused with the prior models
3. the insides will be glued like a bug in amber for 10 yr. reliability but making it totally non-upgradeable and unrepairable (except by Apple, of course) in case it does break
4. 1 USB-C port only, in the rear, discreetly unlabeled.
5. Price $1999 for the bare bones Pro model, because we can, and to protect our margins.  Useful RAM or storage prices are "pricey" as expected.  Cough up now as you won't be able to upgrade or expand later.

1. Up-to-date appropriate CPU
2. Space for both a SSD and a backup HD, easily user replaceable/up-gradable
3. Expandable memory by user
4. More than 1 USB/Thunderbolt 3 port
5. plus 1 USB 3.0 type A on front for charging/syncing/transferring without having to reach around to the back or buy a hub
6. Compact, but not small & thin just to be small & thin,  It's a desktop computer !

Just a user up-gradable, stylish, basic computer that runs Mac OS.  Can't a Trillion $ company sell just one model like this?