will come with some other features & benefits beyond just 2X or 4X MAX's too to further differentiate (and further push up the pricing).
If you think of Mac Mini MAX priced up into the range of a screen-less, keyboard-less MBpro MAX, then Mac Pro Jr DUO might be rationalized at towards double that price and QUAD at potentially about 3X-4X that price. could differentiate from Mac Mini MAX by also having DUO options. If we see DUO in iMac "bigger", Mac Pro Jr. Even a little push of that accelerator adds a lot of Mac profit for Apple.Īs to Mac Pro Jr., the DUO rumor seems pretty believable and there are further rumors of QUAD (4 MAX's). that underpinning the Silicon transition is an objective to get many of us turning over Macs faster than we have historically, more like how we turn over iDevices. I suspect M-series Macs are going this way. exactly as it works with A-next power in iPhones to drive people to buy new iPhones sooner than seemingly necessary. Personally, I'd still favor this Mini over even that DUO iMac because I don't want to buy a screen that could be used for 10 years but will probably need to be retired much sooner than that when "shock & awe" M-next becomes "long in tooth" over just a few years. It's not hard to imagine iMac "bigger" with MAX DUO and Mini with M1MAX reveals. If so, that would be "double the power" spin in what can often seem to be the "better value" purchase. The competing rumor is that iMac "bigger" may get the so-called MAX DUO (2 MAX chips linked together).
If it does not show, I probably try to keep stretching old Macs until something rolls out that better appeals. will be priced insanely high (beyond any reasonable rationalizations unless (most) buyers are getting to spend someone else's (corporate) money), the long-rumored X-mac will remain an ongoing, unfed want and so Mini becomes best hope for a powerful, screen-less Mac. I much favor that rumor and hope it is true. implying that it already exists and maybe awaits a time when demand vs. And those rumors mostly point to MAR-APR instead of next Fall (actually this Mini was rumored pretty hard to also roll out with the new MBpros a few months ago. There's actually hope for a "pimped" Mini: more rumors imply a PRO & MAX Mini than only the M2 version.