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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."
i do not care about this nerd shit
back to lifting weights while my girlfriend reads this article for me
Apple has quietly lowered the price...
Quiet, until the story was slashdotted.
Yes, I am a smart ass; it's better than the alternative.
Screw PCI. I want to be able to use my MCA cards that I bought. Nobody supports them anymore.
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UK Apple store upgrades for the Mac Mini:
Bluetooth upgrade + 35.00 UKP
Airport upgrade + 49.00 UKP
Bluetooth AND Airport upgrade + 152.88 UKP
It's because that last price is in metric pounds, while the others are in imperial pounds.
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Hell, take out the dishwasher and you could park an IBM AS/400 under the counter. Why settle for a Mac Mini when you could be running an enterprise class server, right in your kitchen?
You could even augment this by placing an external disk array cabinet in place of the refrigerator.
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So what's the total for a tricked out mini?
I was able to configure one up to a surprising $40,553!
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
I build and maintain computers from scratch
Wow, you must be crazy smart, I hear CPU's are real hard to make from scratch.
Just messin.. $825 is a pretty good deal for a mac tho. If I had the extra cash, I think I'd be all over it. Where did you find a gig ram for $125? Best mini stuff i could find was here.
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Yeah, your average Dell box could crush a Mini totally. This is America, bigger is better dammit!
For 700 bucks I get a DVD burner, 80 Gig HD and the best OS on the planet.
Ah, so you did exactly what I did - bought a nice Athlon system and installed Linux. Good choice!
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You get a lot more computer - about 5x larger!
You get a lot more fan noise - try a new HP. WHOOOOOOOSH!
You get a lot more spyware helping you browse. Apple doesn't help you browse. What the hell is up with that!
You get a lot more product activation. Without product activation, all your products would just lie dormant!
You get more wait time for a major OS update. Waiting gives you time to read and makes you smarter!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I think I'll wait a few weeks, the price will drop more, and then I won't have to bother with the putty knives!
Everybody -- keep posting articles about hacking the Mac Mini so the price will drop quicker!
I assume by crush you mean "To press between opposing bodies so as to break or injure." [dictionary.com]?
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Please don't use the term "sexy" to describe technology. That usage sucked in the 90s, and now it's outdated and still sucks.
Wow, you must be crazy smart, I hear CPU's are real hard to make from scratch.
You don't know the half of it! One time I was painstakingly hand-soldering a 68040, when I accidentally dropped my pince-nez. Well, when I got back to my work, I had inadvertently given the chip a half turn, and before I knew it I connected pin 25965 to 52692! That took me even longer to figure out than the time I baked the hard drive platters a little too long.
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It will challenge your head, your brain, and your mind.
"Jobs is sick and tired of leaking assholes..."
Then he should quit consuming food that contains Olean.
Come to think of it, I got a stick of Apple-branded ram for the price of a stick of shitty Crucial ram. Maybe I will buy from Crucial again.
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I'm pretty sure I could drive a truck over the Dell and crush the Dell. That doesn't make a truck a better computer.
Why don't they stop posting all these Apple© Slashvertisements(TM) on the first page, and you Apple lovers keep your jerk off sessions out of non-Apple stories? And that includes the stories about other, non-Apple, mp3 players.
If you don't like spooge in your eye, stay the hell out of bukkake.slashdot.org.
If you use a registered account, you can filter out the bukkake stories. If you insist on browsing without an account, bring plenty of paper towels.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
I think you're being unfair to all the Total Morons Who Aren't Smart Enough To Be Scumbags that work at CompUSA. I purchase from CompUSA because of their hiring practices. If half their employees weren't victims of Down's Syndrome, I'd probably shop elsewhere.