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Just replace the battery with a new one from a site like http://ifixit.com/.

You can chek it out here:
http://www.ifixit.com/cart/catalog/product_84_G4_T itanium_Mercury_Lower_Case.html/

I also helped replace this section on a friends pbook - its a metal plate bonded to the polycarb. If it's not a Ti plate thats my misunderstanding, but it is metal, not plastic:
http://www.ifixit.com/cart/catalog/product_83_G4_T itanium_Mercury_Upper_Case.html/

Hey we have the same job (almost, NYC?) ~75% mac (a couple of thousand people-advertising). I agree with you on the hinges but I think our disagreement is semantic(the case is a sandwich, yes?). I've taken apart my Ti book for ram and HD uprades (and for friends who wanted the same) and whenever I'd swap for the spare battery and that bottom plate is metal, the later models (mine is the 400mghz) may have gone to plastic (?!) but not mine. I even called pbfixit and the man there confirms bottom metal plate.

You can chek it out here:
http://www.ifixit.com/cart/catalog/product_84_G4_T itanium_Mercury_Lower_Case.html/

I also helped replace this section on a friends pbook - its a metal plate bonded to the polycarb. If it's not a Ti plate thats my misunderstanding, but it is metal, not plastic:
http://www.ifixit.com/cart/catalog/product_83_G4_T itanium_Mercury_Upper_Case.html/

Hey we have the same job (almost, NYC?) ~75% mac (a couple of thousand people-advertising). I agree with you on the hinges but I think our disagreement is semantic(the case is a sandwich, yes?). I've taken apart my Ti book for ram and HD uprades (and for friends who wanted the same) and whenever I'd swap for the spare battery and that bottom plate is metal, the later models (mine is the 400mghz) may have gone to plastic (?!) but not mine. I even called pbfixit and the man there confirms bottom metal plate.

I don't think anyone's complaining about having to pay more for a quality product so much as questioning whether or not Apple products add enough "quality" to justify the price. My experience has been that the premium you pay for Apple is in software quality, not machine build quality. There's a simple demonstration to hint at this: Find an old PowerBook G3 and an old Thinkpad (I did this with a G3 Pismo and a 600E). Open the PowerBook and feel the resistance on the hinges. Now open the Thinkpad and see how it feels. There's really no comparison. The Thinkpad feels like a new machine, the PowerBook feels like it needs a hinge replacement.

I probably won't buy another Apple not because I think the price premium doesn't buy me anything, but because a shitty OS can be replaced with Linux (which is by no means a magic bullet or as user-friendly as Mac OS X, but it's a solid operating system that, once set up properly, gives you relatively little nonsense) while shitty hardware can only be repaired at significant expense. Software is transient, hardware is forever.

Sidenote: It is standard Intel hardware in a pretty box. It's a standard Intel Core Duo with an Intel south bridge (ifixit speculates it's a 945PM chipset). Other than EFI and a Trusted Platform Module or whatever the hell it's called, it looks like plain-Jane x86 stuff.

Mac mini contains 667MHz (PC2-5300) double data rate, synchronous dynamic random-access memory (DDR2-SDRAM), one of the fastest memory technologies available today. Your Mac mini comes standard with two 256MB SO-DIMM chips for a total of 512 megabytes (MB) of memory... You can upgrade your memory later by taking your system to an Apple Authorized Service Provider or doing it yourself.

What, like a Intel ICH7-M SATA Controller or an Intel NH82801GBM Southbridge? In fact it seems to use entirely Intel chips inside see here on page 16.

What, like a Intel ICH7-M SATA Controller or an Intel NH82801GBM Southbridge? In fact it seems to use entirely Intel chips inside see here on page 16.

What, like a Intel ICH7-M SATA Controller or an Intel NH82801GBM Southbridge? In fact it seems to use entirely Intel chips inside see here on page 16.

Do they sell them with 2-button touchpads?

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