Mac Mini upgrade 2015

Dear Apple users,
I'm willing to purchase a brand new Mac Mini but recently I've read some posts in different webpages regarding an incoming upgrade of Mac Mini. According to those posts the new version of Mac Mini will be launched at the end of 2014 or begining of 2015. Anybody could confirm that information? Should I buy or should I wait?
Thank you in advance and greeting to all of you.
Enrique

Apple has to wait for Intel to release their mobile Broadwell (microarchitecture) chips in order to put them in there.
Current rumours point to 2015 for that to happen.

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