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Mac mini Dissection

Posted by timothy on from the vicarious-fun dept.

xbasque writes "Smash has a video showing the technique for cracking open a Mac mini safely. Upgrade the RAM and hard drive yourself and save a bundle (ain't that the point of the mini?)" And if you don't plan to take one apart yourself, parvenu74 points out the pictures of exploratory Mac mini surgery on mini-itx.com, writing "From a post: 'The board itself is slightly smaller than Mini-ITX at about 160mm square by our estimations, and includes Ethernet, Modem, DVI/VGA, 2 x USB, Firewire and Audio connectors (sadly not optical).'"

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  1. Re:Apple warranty service by earthpig · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No, There is just one asshole and he works in Europe Support. it seems that apple service state side and here in europe are two different beasts.
    i bought my power book in the US but live right now in europe. I sent it in for the know problem of white spots on the display. There was some shipping damage and ES (euro support) refused to take any responsibility for it and refused fix anything stating - paraphrasing - give us $900 or we won't fix it, because the damage was not listed in the original service request. but when i got back to the states, thety fixed it no questions asked.

    I was talking to customer service in Ireland complaining about the level of service i was receiving. I had the guy on the phone tell me that he had head the words extortion and blackmail used a lot by people refering to the kind of support from ES.

    Form you own conclusion!

  2. I think a lot of you are missing the point. by paanta · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I have a nice year-and-a-half old PC sitting in my living room, as well as a G4 ibook with a processor running at basically half the speed of my PC. The PC never gets turned on. Rather, it gets turned on by my wife when she can't rip the ibook from my hands, or by me when I need to run ArcGIS or AutoCAD. I'll probably always _need_ a PC around, but I certainly don't _want_ one around. Yes, its clearly a superior machine in raw computing power, but its not really designed to be lived with. Frankly, if I'm going to spend 8 hours a day sitting in front of a computer, I want it to be pleasant to look at and nice to touch and totally silent. I don't want the ugliest thing in my house to be the thing I spend the most time using.

    Would I tolerate a refridgerator that was cold enough to make liquid nitrogen if it also kicked out a 90dB whine? No. Would I ever use a toaster that was 5x larger than it needed to be and so ugly that I had to hide it under a desk? No. Do I want my toilet to blue-screen-of-death on me? Not particularly.