<story><title>HP Unveils Mini Workstation</title><url>http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=2364757</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>See also the Intel NUC thing: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.intel.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;nuc&amp;#x2F;nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk-features-configurations.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.intel.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;nuc&amp;#x2F;nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;What really astonishes me though is how you can have these really nice machines and Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t bother to update the Mac mini. Seriously, an Apple version of this would be a nice desktop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orangecat</author><text>&lt;i&gt;What really astonishes me though is how you can have these really nice machines and Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t bother to update the Mac mini.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would almost have been better if they didn&amp;#x27;t update it. The 2012 mini was fantastic; you could take it to a quad i7 and 16GB for under $1000 thanks to user-accessible RAM. For most purposes that&amp;#x27;s much better than the current $1000 mini.</text></comment>
<story><title>HP Unveils Mini Workstation</title><url>http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=2364757</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>See also the Intel NUC thing: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.intel.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;nuc&amp;#x2F;nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk-features-configurations.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.intel.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;nuc&amp;#x2F;nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;What really astonishes me though is how you can have these really nice machines and Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t bother to update the Mac mini. Seriously, an Apple version of this would be a nice desktop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daxorid</author><text>I have the Skullcanyon NUC, and this is not comparable.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been waiting for someone to offer me ECC in a small form factor. This is the first time I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen it.</text></comment>