While I’d love to see a new Mac mini, calling the processor it currently uses as “woefully outdated” is a bit hyperbolic to me. Haswell is still a fantastic core and works well for the intended audience of the Mini. If the Mini was sold as a high end machine, then sure, the processor it has wouldn’t live up to expectations, but as it’s always been a small, lightly powered machine, I think it’s not as bad as this post made it out to be.
To put it in perspective, the i7 4578U in the high end 2014 Mac mini benchmarks in Geekbench just a little bit worse than the A11 Bionic in the iPhone 8.
Yes, but the usability for a given task is distinctly different between them. A super sonic jet does a poor job of getting you from SF to Palo Alto for your morning commute.
