Leaving out components like this is part of why NUC-like systems can get so tiny-there's no optical drive, and the smallest models omit any kind of 2.5-inch drive bay in favor of thin SSDs on small cards, like the ones you'd find in a laptop.Īpple could save a substantial amount of space by switching to these smaller drives, and it already has in almost all of its other Macs. It ditched its slot-loading optical drive in the mid-2011 model, and 2.5-inch spinning hard drives are slowly receding not just from Apple's Macs, but from all high-end PCs everywhere. Those first aluminum unibody Minis had to make room for a few components that either have gone or are going out of vogue. But we can look at wider trends in the PC industry, at advances in CPUs and other system components, and at what Apple is doing with its other Macs to make a case for (and against) a mini-er Mac Mini. We have no idea when or even if Apple is planning to refresh the Mac Mini, or what that refresh will look like when it comes.
The next Mac Mini we see may well be even smaller than before.īut just because things can get smaller doesn't always mean that they should. The presence of faster, more tightly integrated chips makes it easier to cram even more performance into even less space than was possible just a few years ago.
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It measures 7.7 inches squared and is 1.4 inches high, which is still pretty small by desktop standards but positively huge compared to computers like the Intel NUC (4.4 by 4.6 by 1.4 inches) or Gigabyte Brix Pro (4.5 by 4.4 by 2.4 inches).
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It's also nearly the only Mac that Apple didn't update in 2013.Īpple hasn't updated the design of the Mini since 2010, when it introduced the aluminum unibody design the computer still uses today.
Apple started selling tiny desktops with this name in 2005, and it's been the cheapest way to buy a Mac ever since. We've been covering quite a few mini PCs lately, and there's one that always comes up in the comments: Apple's Mac Mini.
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