Whither the Mac mini?

I can't see Apple's only desktop offering being the Mac Pro and nothing else?
personally I would like to see the re-introduction of the Mac Cube with space for a full size hard drive and one full size graphics card and 4GB ram

personally...i love my G4 CUBE...its a great machine that was way before its time...and the Mini takes its cues from the CUBE...but what i would love to see is a mid-grade Tower about the size of the CUBE with the ability to add via card slots like a Mac Pro does or the older PowerMacs did...

i think with the Mac Mini tech inside a Cube size factor will make it a great computer and could be as great as an iMac...especially because you could bring your own peripherals

would be a great idea...and they would make those that want a smaller tower happy and keep the Mini alive

Just what i would like to see...but chances are alot of you will be right...

it will be an upgraded/green Mac Mini with the DisplayPORT and Magsafe adapter port so they will be able to talk you into buying the new Cinema Display 24" as a package deal...so you would be looking at something like 700 for Mini and 900 for the display...therefore you are still spending 1600 plus tax

it would be nice to have it have TV integrated but i dont see the real need for that...i think an updated FrontRow for it would work fine...seeing as all TV is...is a FrontRow machine...i have 2 of them and love them but if i could have them be able to have EyeTV tuner connected to them and have a dvd port...or even be able to connect the MBAir's DVD drive to it would be great...

now im just rambling on...but you got my stance on this subject

LOVE LIVE THE MAC MINI
you are much loved by many

I was originally thinking about getting my folks' Mac minis. But honestly, it is plenty cheaper to buy 2 generic PCs that come with everything and then buy some webcams. I think the troubleshooting may be easier on my side if they both had Macs, but the price of a Mac mini is still, IMO, ridiculous.

Also, I don't feel like Apple is really being aggressive about better pricing. I'm taking what they did to the MacBooks as a cue for higher pricing of Mac minis if they do stay in the line up.

I switched to Mac last year, and while I really like the OS and the form factor, I'm really disenchanted with the pricing and I'm getting annoyed by 3rd party peripherals' drivers that won't work (but I have this problem on Vista occasionally, too--however, it's exacerbated more on the Mac when another 10.x comes out).

If the Mac mini were $399, the Apple TV $129, I would be buying plenty more Apple products for not only myself, but my family as well.

Well, i dont own a mac mini but to be honest i would love to get one for my living room to watch movies , serf the web and stuff like that..Im sure that Apple wont let the mini die, but instead they gonna upgrade it.

I hope that Apple one day it will listen their customers and they gonna make a damn "not so expensive and powerfull" mac pro...Like a tower with the iMac's specs...wouldn't that be nice for people that have a screen, dont like that "all in one" thing and can upgrade it, add more HDDs?

Yes it would be great, thank you for agree with me :p

I can foresee a new mini with a possible small form factor case reminiscent of the mac pro case with hdmi and dvi out and display port with the new nvidia integrated-discrete video cards at a new price point of $599 to $899
$699 integrated graphics only 2 gigs ram 160 gig hard drive 3,5 inch
$799 integrated graphics only 2 gigs ram 250 gig hard drive 3,5 inch
$899 nvidia integrated-discrete 128 video ram 2 gigs ram 160 3,5 inch hard drive
$999 nvidia integrated-discrete 256 video ram 4 gigs ram 250 3,5 inchhard drive
the first two based on a macbook mother board with no firewire and no hdmi the second two based on the macbook pro with hdmi and firewire
I also think they will offer an express card port for a t.v. tuner so these can be used as a home theater unit
Apple would serve itself to do something like tis as the home theater crowd would love this

I have two mini Macs. They are too expensive for what I get but you don't know until you try. When mine quit, I'm going to a Linux PC for the desktop.

I'm seriously considering the Mac Mini after switching with the MacBook Pro in a few months. I hope it stays.

What's next

MacNano?.?.?.?.?.?.?.

The answer is pretty easy... new Mac Minis with the nvidia 9400M chipset and the mini DisplayPort. Oh, and no Firewire whatsoever!!