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Price Drops For Mac mini Upgrades
RustNeverSleeps writes "Apple has just lowered prices on certain build-to-order options on the Mac mini. The combination Bluetooth and AirPort Express option has gone down to $99 from $129, 1 GB RAM upgrades have been reduced to $325 from $475 and the price of an upgrade from a 40 GB hard drive to an 80 GB hard drive has been reduced to $50 from $90. Also, the original 4x SuperDrive has been upgraded to an 8x drive for the same price. Interesting that they dropped prices so soon after release. Perhaps Apple actually listened to people complaining about overpriced upgrades."
With the old prices, an upgraded mac mini ends up costing well over $1000, and for that price, I can get a lot more in a PC.
IMO, I think one of the reasons they came out with the mac mini, is to get more people to try out a mac, and hopefully convert them to their side. Personally, I won't go and spend $2000 for a Mac to try out. But for $500, I'm willing to purchase one, especially now with the new lower upgrade prices
...my free mini? ;-)
GET FREE APPLE STUFF!
I would grab one but it is not a G5. I refuse to buy anymore 32 bit machines now that one can buy commodity x86/apple 64 bit chips. The future is 64 bit. I have not replaced my 32 bit machines but I don't intend to buy anymore 32 bit computers.
I miss the Karma Whores.
Bill Gates must really be worried if he has this many minions out desperately trying to convince windows users NOT to switch. You can just see them sitting around the table up in Redmond thinking up negative things to say in online forums. Hmmm.. Your efforts MIGHT save you a coule of points of market share.
I'll wait until Tiger comes out. They'll be shipping Tiger with this thing, and I'll save $129 by not buying it down the road. In fact I'll save $79 more because it comes with iLife '05 which my iMac G5 doesn't have yet (and yeah, I'm gonna put Tiger on it, too). There you go, $500 computer, $200 in savings on software.
So you say. I disagree.
I'm underwhelmed by your objection.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Sweet...a mac nut moderator called me a troll because I had the gnads to say that the mini wasn't a "killer" system.
Good job! I'm sure Jobs appreciates it.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H. L. Mencken
That's my point. Anyone who thinks Apple suffered from a no clones policy doesn't realise it's not comparable. Or they don't realise that the company that was cloned (IBM) suffered for it. Or they don't realise that Apple tried clones and the idea failed. Usually all three.
IBM is doing pretty well.
I said the IBM PC business. In case you haven't been following the news, it was making heavy losses and was sold off to a Chinese company.