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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."
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.
Unknown host pong.
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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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.
Mike van Lammeren
It will challenge your head, your brain, and your mind.