Despite what some of you guys think, I believe that most Mini buyers don't really care about specs or updates. They are perfectly happy as long as they can run Office, internet and iLife. And that's well within the current Mini's capabilities. It might be a bad deal if you compare it to other non-Mac computers, but then again, they don't have OS X and iLife. And if that's what you want they never qualified for the comparison in the first place. My guess is that if people are opinionated enough to care about specs as well, then Apple would prefer to sell them some of their bigger and more expensive machines.
I personally think the Mini will stick around, until Apple fancies to replace it with something else in the same category. But don't get your hopes up for any mini towers or such. That doesn't seem to be the direction Apple is going in.
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