RYF Now!! 2.6 quad 2012 mini Apple Refurb Store $659

[RAMd®d]

i3??? Did they ever offer an i3 machine?

He's being sarcastic.

[Speedy]

RAMd®d wrote:
i3??? Did they ever offer an i3 machine?

He's being sarcastic.

Yes, but possibly prescient.

[Black]

rgG wrote:
[quote=billb]
20 July 2011
23 Oct 2012
16 Oct 2014

So, two years on the last update. That is just too long. Maybe I will try to wait till the next update, since it has already been over a year, but I hope it doesn't stretch out to two years, like last time. Would have been better if the gap between the 2012 and the 2014 would have been longer....

[Filliam H. Muffman]

rgG wrote:
[quote=Black]
[quote=Lew Zealand]
[quote=rgG]
They even had the elusive 2012 base mini for $409, according to refurb tracker, but it was gone before I got there.

Here is a great question, when will the current mini be updated, if ever?

If ever? The Mini gets updated less often than Apple's real moneymakers, the laptops and iMacs, but it does get updated. It's been about a year so I anticipate an update around next summer though it could be as late as next Fall, ie: a year from now.

C'mon Apple, prove me wrong! OK not by delaying it 'til 2017. 15 months between Mid-2011 and late 2012 Mini. But how long between 2012 and the new one? Wasn't it even longer?
2012 to 2014 was a week short of 2 years. http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac_Mini

The current mini has the 4xxx series CPU, the same generation as the 2015 MBP. Typically the mini won't get a new CPU until the new MBP (late 2015 or early 2016) has been out for six months.

[space-time]

RAMd®d wrote:
i3??? Did they ever offer an i3 machine?

He's being sarcastic.

actually I searched and it seems Apple did sell some i3 machines. not sure about Mac Mini, but here are some i3 iMacs.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/imac-...i3-review/

now that I think about it, I think my friend has one i3. I never paid attention, and all my machines are i5 or i7.

[Lew Zealand]

The i3 iMacs were all education-only, typically with other cost-saving changes like non-Magic mouse and USB instead of BT keyboards bundled. These were replaced by the 1.4 (and now 1.6) i5 iMacs which are available to everyone.