Mac mini Supplies Running Dry, New Model Imminent?
(Image courtesy of AppleInsider)If there’s one fairly certain way to predict when new Apple products are coming, it’s a quick check at supplies of a given product. This week it’s the Mac mini which appears to be in short supply -- is a new model on the way?AppleInsider is reporting that the smallest member of the Apple Mac family, the Mac mini, has become increasingly harder to find in stock over the last two weeks. That’s generally a good sign that a new model (or models) are imminent, especially when the website has verified the shortage four times over on top of receiving numerous tips that something new is on the way.“For example, one buyer for a higher-ed institution placed a bulk order for Mac minis two weeks ago through the school's Apple rep, noting that receipt of the machines was required by June 1,†AppleInsider writes. “Although the Apple representative initially indicated that the delivery date would not be a problem, the buyer last week saw his ETA pushed out from 1-3 business days to a definitive date of June 14.â€"Every time this has happened in years past, it means that the item we ordered would be revised," the buyer told AppleInsider.A new Mac mini wouldn’t be much of a surprise -- back in March, AppleInsider had an exclusive report on a next-generation model being tested in Cupertino which sported an HDMI port instead of the current model’s DVI port (as seen above), which would make it an ideal candidate for inclusion in a home theatre system (despite Steve Jobs’ recent comments at D8 playing down the company’s efforts to infiltrate that market with Apple TV).The Mac mini was last updated in late October, which brought two new models with faster Core 2 Duo processors and a third configuration intended to be a small server, which left out an optical drive in favor of two 500GB hard drives for a total of 1GB of storage.
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