[X4U] Mac Mini!!!

[Johns Maillist]

Watch Dealnews and Dealmac mail lists for some really great LCD 
bargains!
I will probably buy a Mini, and a 19'" LCD (DVI inut) to go with it, 
just for video editing.
J

On Jan 12, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Samantha Cornell wrote:

> 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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