Yesterday Apple announced a refresh to the Mac mini to bring Haswell processors, 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Thunderbolt 2 to go with a minor price drop (now starting at $549 instead of $599).
If you have been waiting for refurbished Mac minis to appear on Apple.ca’s refurbished store, as of writing three are available, including one model with OS X Server, which has been discontinued from the current line up.
The $469 model has a 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 plus 4GB of memory and a 500GB hard drive, which brings $80 in savings. This one won’t last very long and could very well be the home theatre PC you have been waiting for.
Let us know if you’re going to jump on any of these!
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Given that the new 2014 models start at $100 less than the 2012 models did, is it worth it to just wait for one of those to hit the refurb store?
Yeah it would be, if you can wait that long 🙂
I figured. And, yeah, I can wait. Was thinking of it for a media centre to replace my Apple TV. Figure I can hold off a bit longer. =)
That’s exactly what I’m planning. It’d kind of be the ultimate TV box! 🙂
Plex or XMBC you think?