Mac mini buying

Hello, I had an older mac and it broke so I have been using windows for a little while and I really need a mac again because I am a mac user and have a lot of programs/apps, same thing that I need to use in OS X. I plan to get a mac mini because of my tight budget and I already have the monitor, mouse, keyboard. I heard they are going to release a new mac mini this year soon. I want to know if I should really wait for the new mac mini or if I will be fine off with the 2012 one for now and for 2-3 years. Thanks for the help.

It depends on your plans for use.  Rumor is ... the mini will have Iris Pro [still integrated, not discrete-card] graphics, which is apparently a big step up over the HD 4000 in earlier models.  If you plan gaming or the like, it is worth waiting.  For a whole host of other things, the current mini is pretty powerful and may be just fine.
Note for some uses - e.g. creating H.264 movies, so I have heard - the Iris Pro is still a long ways off from performance with a discrete graphics card.  And any serious gaming requires discrete graphics. 
I too am waiting - don't want to spend the $$ for an iMac (I'm look for a 21", and don't want an un-repairable computer with a 5400 rpm drive for the cost being asked) and am considering a new mini if it has Iris Pro graphics with at least 500 MB of VRAM.
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