[X4U] Mac Mini!!!

[Samantha Cornell]

MacMall is offering the Mini on their site, and they have a variety of 
RAM options...plus a free keyboard and Mouse (after rebate in typical 
MacMall style).

The RAM is less expensive, but certainly not cheap.  Still, we are 
considering buying one..my husband wants a machine exclusively for 
Garageband.  The deciding factor for us is that he won a flat screen 
monitor from Samsung's Hope for Education contest last month.  If we 
didn't have the extra monitor, I think we'd be looking at a G5 iMac.

Still...MacMall does have some decent prices on monitors...





On Jan 12, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Johns Maillist wrote:

> I wonder how the labor would run to replace it, if it goes bad? 
> Assuming that it is lifetime warranty on the memory. With Apple Care. 
> that would not cover it of course.
> If Apple Store charges on market rate to install it, would they 
> discount the cost of the originally installed 256MB Ram? That could 
> work out OK.
> I think then it makes a great machine for me, as I now have a G4 MD, 
> 1.25. The speed bump of the 1.42 could be OK IMHO.
> John
>
> On Jan 12, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Neil_ Pollack wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 12, 2005, at 11:39AM, Richard Gilmore 
>> <rgilmor at uwo.ca> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Subject: Re: [X4U] Mac Mini!!!
>>>>
>>>>> It looks to me like you could add more RAM yourself. I don't think 
>>>>> it would
>>>>> be that hard. It looks like the only thing you'd have to do is pry 
>>>>> the
>>>>> little tabs up, there are a lot of them but I suspect it's far from
>>>>> impossible. Are there two slots or just one? Where does it say 1 
>>>>> GB of RAM
>>>>> costs $425?
>>>>
>>>> If you go into the order page and try to configure extra options,
>>>> you'll find that the 1GB upgrade costs $425.
>>>
>>> You're right. This is an insane price. I think I'd void the warranty 
>>> and pry
>>> it open to add my own RAM to save $300.
>>>
>>> The rest of the options are not overly expensive however. But they 
>>> should be
>>> offering wireless and the Superdrive as standard options so it's 
>>> still on
>>> the pricey side but I think a step in the right direction for Apple.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>
>> I think I would bring a stick of name brand memory with me to the 
>> Apple store when I went to buy it.  They would probably add the ram 
>> to make the sale.  I bet they would charge less than $300 to do it.
>>
>> Neil
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