{"id":21148,"date":"2018-04-06T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21148"},"modified":"2018-06-15T15:49:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T19:49:31","slug":"mac-mini-turning-3-5-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/06\/mac-mini-turning-3-5-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac mini Turning 3.5 Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It’s an opportune time for a reminder that the Mac mini hasn’t been refreshed in three-and-a-half years as of April 16<\/a>. 1,267 days ago as of today, according to our MacRumors Buyer’s Guide. We asked Apple for a comment, but it’s unlikely they’ll break silence.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Last year<\/a>, the Mac Mini was upgraded from “a product in [Apple’s] lineup” to “an important part of [Apple’s] product line going forward”; Panzarino made no mention of any status change indicated during his Mac Pro briefing.<\/p>\n

And that’s weird. Half of the Mac models Apple ships are stale. It isn’t just me who finds that strange, right?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Meanwhile, it’s been 2 years<\/a> since Apple released a new 4-inch phone, almost 3 years since it updated the iPad mini, 5 years since it updated the AirPort Extreme Base Station, and 8 years<\/a> since it raised the MacBook Pro’s<\/a> RAM ceiling.<\/p>\n\n

Previously: Apple Comments on AirPort’s Future<\/a>, New MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac<\/a>, An Important Part of Our Product Line Going Forward<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Rossignol: It’s an opportune time for a reminder that the Mac mini hasn’t been refreshed in three-and-a-half years as of April 16. 1,267 days ago as of today, according to our MacRumors Buyer’s Guide. We asked Apple for a comment, but it’s unlikely they’ll break silence. Nick Heer: Last year, the Mac Mini was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-06-15T19:49:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"4399c156-3c38-4bfb-a994-7d818b15d042","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-06-15T19:49:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQ5nBVjw4S_uplH2BixXQQg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"[\"https:\\\/\\\/news-api.apple.com\\\/sections\\\/b4012003-2938-3396-a818-a504177815f2\"]","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[589,31,685,1338,30,557,100,1056],"class_list":["post-21148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-airport-extreme-base-station","tag-ios","tag-ipad-mini","tag-iphone-se","tag-mac","tag-macmini","tag-macbookpro","tag-ram"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21822,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21148\/revisions\/21822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}