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I agree. I was really looking forward to what apple would do with the Mac Mini as I wanted it to be my first apple purchase. To be fair,the update seems like a

I agree. I was really looking forward to what apple would do with the Mac Mini as I wanted it to be my first apple purchase. To be fair,the update seems like a downgrade. Even on the keynote, the product seemed neglected. It looks like I am going look for small form factor cases and stick Linux on them and probably get a Mac book Pro when I save up enough money.

turnip1979 12y ago
Well .. we can vote with our dollars. I just kept my 2010 macbook and got my own ssd and 16GB of RAM. Also, keeping my old Mac Mini from around that time.
cdr 12y ago
Intel NUCs are really interesting small form factor PC kits - a nice medium between completely from scratch (which can be a real pain in SFF) and completely prebuilt. i3/i5 Broadwell NUCs are announced for early 2015.
- singingfish 12y ago
  I've had a couple of Shuttle small form factors this year. Works really well with Linux Mint.
- dragontamer 12y ago
  NUC sucks however. Its way too small. I think I prefer the slightly larger mini-PCs from Zotec. If I build from scratch, the AMD-based AM1 platforms are superb. $30 socketed miniITX motherboards and $20 chips are great.