Apple has really dropped the ball on the Mac mini (and also the Mac Pro, though that got some attention in some official interviews). It's a shame that the comp

Apple has really dropped the ball on the Mac mini (and also the Mac Pro, though that got some attention in some official interviews). It's a shame that the company, even with so much money, is unable to segregate work among different teams and get things done. Since a Mac is a required machine for iOS/tvOS/watchOS development, pushing out new MacBook after MacBook and pushing out new iMacs once in a while just isn't enough. The Mac mini is a really great machine by itself, and the older models that were also easily upgradeable on RAM and secondary storage were fantastic (the Intel CPU based models can still run Linux if they do not have official support for the latest or recent versions OS X or macOS).