Surely that addresses the biggest complaints levelled against the current Mini. Lightning fast drive performance and decent graphics. If the additional space and better heat-handling meant being able to use a discrete GPU, that's a whole new ball game. Just speculating but imagine what would happen if by switching the Mini to a solidstate drive, Apple could engineer in more ability to handle heat. I know what you're saying but consider that if Apple could pull off a surprise or two, the Mini form factor could yield a device closer to the bang for the buck sort of device many of us would love to see. If the refreshed Mac Mini specs are decent though I'll consider it. It's pretty much the gimp Mac Mini or the iMac + screen which I don't favor. I'm still disappointed that there's not an entry level tower. It'll be interesting to see how they integrate the TB ports on the MP when it uses PCI GPUs. There needs to be PCI 3.0 in this one too. If it was the intention to do this, Thunderbolt and Lion must have been the delaying factors or possibly a new chassis design. I guess the current Westmere chips get dropped down to the $2499 and $2999 models and replace Nehalem but this means going from a quad 2.8GHz Nehalem to a quad 2.4GHz Westmere. This isn't Sandy Bridge though, which arrives in October. There's nothing to replace the E5620 but they could use the following that came out in Q1 '11: Right now, they use the following Westmere chips: There doesn't seem to be anything to replace the entry quad though. This leaves either the 5000-series or the upcoming E5 series due in October (which they may get early access to).
The E7 series Xeon is too expensive and the E3 series is too slow (E3-1260L would work great in a Mini though). Apple will release updates for its Mac Pro and Mac mini desktops in August, adding Intel's latest generation Sandy Bridge processors and the new high-speed Thunderbolt port, according to a new rumor.
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