This gives Apple reason to not murder the mini but not a lot of reason to love it, or to risk it being too viable against their classier products. You get a lot of mediocrity for your 400-450 dollar. The two weakest links of the 2014 base Mac Mini are the slow dual core laptop CPU and painfully slow 5400 RPM hard drive that comes standard.
I am most familiar with K12 IT treatment of macs but there may be some other customers where very low per-unit OSX is important. See: Post 46 for the current best deal at Newegg on one of these HP 8300 Ultra Small desktops. Their read/write speeds have increased from around 80/60 MB/s up to around 520/480 MB/s. I have upgraded several Late 2012 Mac Minis over the years using PNY SSDs.
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The laptops are actually pretty price competitive with business-class PC laptops but attrition is brutal on laptops compared to desktops, so I've seen more than a few 'cart' or 'one-to-one' initiatives founder in a sea of dead batteries and damaged hardware a couple of years in. FREE Shipping by Amazon Yes upgrading a Late 2012 Mac Minis HDD to an SSD makes a huge difference. Mac Pros, obviously, are right off the table except for specialized needs that you'll mostly find in modest quantities at the college level. iMacs, especially the smaller-screen cutdowns they do for edu customers from time to time, are sometimes worth the price for reduced cable hassle and better 'kiosk' presentation but monitors still tend to last 2-3 generations longer than computers, or get vandalized and need to be replaced, so iMacs aren't perfect for lab applications.
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For people like me that run lots of threaded applications, that's a huge disincentive to purchase a new Mac mini. As expected, that's a whopping near-50% speed reduction from the best 2012 model, and less than a 10% improvement for a single core.
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