AppleInsider Staff
A report on Thursday cites inside sources as saying Apple is preparing to launch a new Mac mini in the near future, possibly as soon as October to coincide with the usual iPad refresh cycle.
Apple's headless Mac mini desktop has been left untouched for nearly two years, but the company may be priming a refresh that could debut next month, reports MacRumors.
While fans of the pint-sized desktop have been waiting for a long overdue refresh, Apple has pushed out numerous iterations of other products in its lineup, including the redesigned Mac Pro.
In spite of having a much lower Mac marketshare compared to the iMac and MacBook lineup, there has been no shortage of Mac mini rumors since the machine received its minor spec bump in 2012. For example, at the tail end of that year, reports claimed Apple would move production of the tiny desktop to the U.S.
More recently, rumors in July pointed to a Support Pages document regarding Boot Camp that referenced a "mid-2014" Mac mini, though with summer come and gone, it seems likely that post was made in error. At the time, Apple had just released the MacBook Pro with Retina display, leading some to believe the update was meant for those machines instead.
The veracity of today's rumor is murky, as the Apple blog recently whiffed on claims that the iPhone 6 would launch on Oct. 14 as part of a "busy month." Apple's latest iPhone was announced on Sept. 9 and saw wide release last week.
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I'm sure everyone expected this update. The only shock would be if it used an A9 ... kidding ...
Please! Especially if they don't fix the bash flaw in Lion and older. I don't have a Mac capable of running anything newer thanks to EFI constraints.
It's about time!
A rumor without specs? That's strange.
[quote name="Rich Gregory" url="/t/182517/apple-rumored-to-debut-new-mac-mini-in-october-alongside-ipad-refresh#post_2606808"]A rumor without specs? That's strange.[/quote] Someone a few months back said that they had heard the old (current) mini would be better for some things than the new one. I'm thinking new enclosure. That or a Haswell ULT chip from the MBA, like the cheapo iMac. I suppose they could have gotten enough Core M Broadwell chips, but I have no real idea.