News - Apple to abandon Mac mini and focus on the high-end market?

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Apple's smallest and cheapest desktop computer is reported to be on the way out, but will there be a low-cost replacement?

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Shame, it makes an awesome media centre PC.

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Originally Posted by b0redom

Shame, it makes an awesome media centre PC.

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it would with 9400M vga onboard :)

Considering the Macbook has been shunted up to a higher notch and the old version is being kept around purely for educational sales this is less than a suprise. It does fly in the face of Apple's Macs are for everyone message though.

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what is there to compete with the mini?

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Originally Posted by directhex

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what is there to compete with the mini?

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Click on pic if you don't get the joke :)

Thinking about it again, if Apple were to launch a netbook the Mini and the low end Macbook would probably have to go, hence why neither have been upgraded.

Hope this doesn't ring the death knell for Plex (www.plexapp.com) too. I guess you could replace a macmini with a low end macbook, but that's massive massive overkill.

If they added a decent IGP and the ability to upgrade the hard drive + ram yourself then i reckon they would see much better sales!