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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."

3 of 886 comments (clear)

  1. Not Likely by goldspider · · Score: 0, Troll
    "Apple can capitalize on it to get better prices from their suppliers and therefore lower costs for them and pass it on to the customer."

    Or more likely (as most companies do), keep it for themselves.

    Let's not forget that Apple is still a for-profit corporation.

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  2. Re:this goes against.... by badmammajamma · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah...too bad that's not what people are thinking when they are talking about "killer" systems. Please dude, that's totally weak and you know it.

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    Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H. L. Mencken
  3. Re:this goes against.... by fitten · · Score: 0, Troll

    For $100 more I can get a nice Dell laptop that is much faster. In fact, I did... Dell 600m Celeron-M 1.3GHz.