While I’d love to see a new Mac mini, calling the processor it currently uses as “woefully outdated” is a bit hyperbolic to me. Haswell is still a fantastic core and works well for the intended audience of the Mini. If the Mini was sold as a high end machine, then sure, the processor it has wouldn’t live up to expectations, but as it’s always been a small, lightly powered machine, I think it’s not as bad as this post made it out to be.
Yeah, once you hit the $699 price point[0], the specs aren't all that bad - it's just not competitively priced whatsoever.
Agree on pricing. No way I’d buy one now at the price they charge, but 2-3 years ago it was as decently priced as any Apple product.
To put it in perspective, the i7 4578U in the high end 2014 Mac mini benchmarks in Geekbench just a little bit worse than the A11 Bionic in the iPhone 8.
Yes, but the usability for a given task is distinctly different between them. A super sonic jet does a poor job of getting you from SF to Palo Alto for your morning commute.
While I’d love to see a new Mac mini, calling the processor it currently uses as “woefully outdated” is a bit hyperbolic to me.
I want my quad core Mini back. Haswell might well be a "fantastic" core, but I want two more of them.