New Mac Minis Due to be Announced During Apple Event
Press conference will also allegedly unveil the iPad Mini and 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro.
Next week's confirmed Apple event, which is highly rumored to be the date when the firm announces the iPad Mini, will apparently unveil another Mini product.
Sources have told 9to5Mac that a new lineup of Mac Minis will be announced in two standard configurations. They'll purportedly offer different storage and processor options, with a third model reportedly running on OS X Server.
It's expected that the new Mac Minis will begin to ship immediately after the announcement on October 23.
The last update for the Mac Mini arrived in 2010, with the device receiving an unibody aluminum enclosure, with faster processors being integrated last summer. 9to5Mac suggests that, due to the current Mac Minis running off last-generation chipsets and the lack of USB 3.0, these components should be updated in the new models.
In addition to the alleged announcement of the iPad Mini and new Mac Minis, Apple is also expected to unveil a 13-inch MacBook Pro that boasts a Retina display.

what other computer costs twice as much and gives you half the hardware
at least it comes with osx and not windows 8
you get cheap OS upgrades
The price advantage of a Windows machine disappears at the first upgrade
It may come with osx but can it run Crysis? No. Oh, I guess there's "bootcamp".
I stripped the hard drive out and tossed it in the trash...
If it was new, you should have sold it. Could have bought an entire desktop for the price.
Admittedly, it did have an issue with the display, it was an easy fix after taking it apart and checking the ribbon connector. After that, whenever the same issue occurred, I could always fix it with a head-butt - seriously.
The most carefree computer I have ever had; Worth ever New Taiwan Dollar I paid for it.
I'd sooner buy a 2nd-hand Mac than buy a new PC (but I don't usually tell anyone that).
Why would you care about Crysis? You don't buy one of these to play games.
Having said that, I've been impressed with Intel's HD4000 graphics chippery (MacBook Retina with Nvidia GPU forced off). It's a lot faster than I expected, pretty much qualifies as a basic discreet card. Maybe half as fast as the GT650M in the same laptop.
This is only relevant assuming the new Mac Mini CPUs are Ivy Bridge parts, of course.
in fact i think that windows 8 will be apples best selling point!
i would venture to say that apple should gain some amount of market share as over the coming months people buy new pcs and upgrade existing ones and see windows 8 in all it's epic fail.
although i'm not an financial anything i would say over the coming year it is still a good idea to short microsoft and buy apple stock
hopefully this will result in left overs from the last century like ballmer who have been depressing microsoft stock prices like for a decade finally being put to pasture.
and thats a good thing for both microsoft and the rest of us who use pcs
Dunkoff, look it up.
Actually the spelling is wrong.
The correct German is 'Dummkopf".
If by cheap upgrades you mean things that esentially amount to Service Packs that you have to pay for... yea OSX is way cheaper than Windows and its free Service Packs.
You get a small OS update every year for a price, Windows waits a few years for a bigger update. And Windows 8 is moving to a cheaper price anyways.
I think you need to google dunkoff as well as it means something totally different to dummkopf you arschloch haha.
Tack on, that even the low-end dual-core i5 for $599 is more than enough for media center type duties, so in that case do you really want to spend twice as much for a display you don't need and horsepower you won't use?
Even a media center would benefit from more than 2GB RAM on Mountain Lion, even a media center would benefit from an included freaking keyboard and mouse, talk about nickel and diming. The imac, with better hardware and that high end IPS display, manages to include those. It's gouging whichever way you cut it.
I'm not saying that it is some great bargain; you can do a mini ITX build for probably $300-400 [don't forget to buy your OS license
I agree that it'd be really nice if Apple could toss in a keyboard and mouse