{"id":1000656,"date":"2007-05-25T06:24:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T11:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2007\/05\/25\/mac-mini-to-be-discontinued-say-it-isnt-so\/"},"modified":"2007-05-25T14:10:24","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T19:10:24","slug":"mac-mini-to-be-discontinued-say-it-isnt-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2007\/05\/25\/mac-mini-to-be-discontinued-say-it-isnt-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Mini to be Discontinued? Say it isn&#8217;t so!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Insider is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/07\/05\/24\/closing_the_book_on_apples_mac_mini.html\">reporting<\/a> that Apple plans to discontinue the Mac Mini. I can only hope they&#8217;re wrong. The last two Macs I&#8217;ve bought, including the one that powers this site, are both Minis; and I&#8217;ve assumed I&#8217;ll be able to buy more in the future. <\/p>\n<p>The Mini is a wonderful apartment computer: fits in a small space, draws little power, makes almost no noise. I&#8217;m tempted to replace my dual G5 tower with a Mini next go round. The expandability of the tower is nice, but to be honest all I ever do is plugin one USB or Firewire device after another. I&#8217;ve never actually bothered to pop the hood and install a new drive or ATA card or anything. <\/p>\n<p>If I were buying a new desktop today, a tricked out Mac Mini with 2 gigabytes of RAM and 160 GB hard drive would cost $1249. By contrast the minimum Mac Pro (1GB, 250GB) starts at $2200, and goes up to $2499 when I add enough RAM to run Parallels. I could use the bigger hard drive in the Mac Pro and might want a more powerful graphics card (though I&#8217;m not sure about that) but otherwise the Mini is adequate for my needs. <\/p>\n<p>Small is beautiful. More importantly, small is convenient and cheap. Add an HDMI port, a cable card, and DVR software; and the Mac Mini could become the digital hub that AppleTV so much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2007\/03\/25\/apple-tv-why\/\">isn&#8217;t<\/a>.  We need more Minis, not less. Please Apple: don&#8217;t kill the Mini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Insider is reporting that Apple plans to discontinue the Mac Mini. I can only hope they&#8217;re wrong. The last two Macs I&#8217;ve bought, including the one that powers this site, are both Minis; and I&#8217;ve assumed I&#8217;ll be able to buy more in the future. The Mini is a wonderful apartment computer: fits in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}