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Price Drops For Mac mini Upgrades

Posted by timothy on from the mac-mini-eats-lunch-film-at-11 dept.

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."

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  1. So much for quiet by bigtangringo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple has quietly lowered the price...

    Quiet, until the story was slashdotted.

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  2. Re:kitchen computer by k4_pacific · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  3. Re:Total by amichalo · · Score: 4, Funny

    So what's the total for a tricked out mini?

    I was able to configure one up to a surprising $40,553!

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  4. Re:Classic TV Shopping technique.. by rthille · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, your list is pretty good...

    "But Wait! There's MORE!" :-)

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  5. Re:this goes against.... by lscotte · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  6. Indeed, you get a lot more... by SuperKendall · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

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  7. Re:this goes against.... by BlueTooth · · Score: 4, Funny

    I assume by crush you mean "To press between opposing bodies so as to break or injure." [dictionary.com]?

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  8. Re:this goes against.... by lamz · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  9. Re:Buying generic RAM for mini is dangerous by aventius · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'll never buy Crucial ram for an Apple product again. I had such a fiasco. I got a stick of 512mb for my brand new powerbook g4 rev2 that they had verified would work with my machine. After a week or two of random kernel panics, freezing, and general suckiness, I called AppleCare because I wasn't sure if it was the PowerBook or Ram. Three days later, Apple had serviced my powerbook and returned with free overnight shipping both ways and found that faulty ram was the issue. Unfortunately, forgot to send me back the RAM they took out of the system. Meanwhile, I called Crucial to get a replacement for the busted ram. So now a second piece of ram was on its way and billed to my credit card until I returned the first. Two weeks later, Apple never found the ram and eventually shipped me a stick of Apple-Branded ram to replace the Ram they inadvertently stole. So I then had to beg and please Crucial to take back the second stick.

    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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  10. Truck! by Trillan · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.