BRLawyer said:
How depressing.
The eMac is a pretty cool computer. a lot cooler than a Mac Mini with a Dell CRT. hmmmm.... maybe Apple will make a Cheap 17" LCD for the Mac Mini
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How depressing.
The eMac is a pretty cool computer. a lot cooler than a Mac Mini with a Dell CRT. hmmmm.... maybe Apple will make a Cheap 17" LCD for the Mac Mini
I also think the emac is a soid computer. They just don't seem to care sometimes. Bad move by apple.
I was hoping for a Radeon 9550 update for the Mac Mini as they did with the iBook. I would have gotten a Mac Mini to have a monitor ready for a Power Mac later. The video card on the Mini was just to crippled.
I hear you on this. The biggest thing crippling the Mac mini is the lack of a decent graphics sysbsystem. A GPU that supports Core Imaging and enough VRAM to make it useful.Eidorian said:
All the current Macs should have core imaging capable GPUs.
mad jew said:
apple's marketing is suicide. how do they expect people to even know the mini exists, let alone gets updated. more tv, more press, more everything.
Mac Mini buyout in Switzerland?
Yesterday, I got an ad-email from Valcenter (http://www.valcenter.ch/), a swiss Apple reseller.
In the ad, they pointed to a (already expired) Mac Mini 1.25 GHz limited special offer for CHF 459 (about 360 USD), down from CHF 749 (about 590 USD) the normal price in Switzerland. The offer was limited to 50 Mac Minis only!
Although not officially said, this may indicate they want to dry their stock, at least for the 1.25 GHz model, due to a forthcoming product upgrade.
Cheers!
Aueua
Yesterday, I got an ad-email from Valcenter (http://www.valcenter.ch/), a swiss Apple reseller.
In the ad, they pointed to a (already expired) Mac Mini 1.25 GHz limited special offer for CHF 459 (about 360 USD), down from CHF 749 (about 590 USD) the normal price in Switzerland. The offer was limited to 50 Mac Minis only!
Although not officially said, this may indicate they want to dry their stock, at least for the 1.25 GHz model, due to a forthcoming product upgrade.
Cheers!
Aueua
aueua said:
I got the same email and almost bought one for my father...alas, the promotion was over less than a day after..!!!
ALL 50 Minis were sold in less than 24 hours.!! It was a great price indeed (and a memory upgrade to 512Mb was just 40 CHF away)...désolé..!!
BRLawyer said:I got the same email and almost bought one for my father...alas, the promotion was over less than a day after..!!!
ALL 50 Minis were sold in less than 24 hours.!! It was a great price indeed (and a memory upgrade to 512Mb was just 40 CHF away)...désolé..!!
I take it these were the 256Mb models then, so yes they were clearing stock, but of the rev.A machines.
lickily said:I take it these were the 256Mb models then, so yes they were clearing stock, but of the rev.A machines.
Surely, but a Rev. A Mac Mini with 512 Mb of RAM and a good G4 would be more than enough for my dad (which still uses a crappy Pentium II or whatever), at an unbeatable price...
BRLawyer said:Surely, but a Rev. A Mac Mini with 512 Mb of RAM and a good G4 would be more than enough for my dad (which still uses a crappy Pentium II or whatever), at an unbeatable price...
Agreed, I was only saying that this doesn't really hint at any impending future mini update.
BRLawyer said:Yep, you might be right..! But it was a great offer anyway...
They cleared the old machines out locally at around US$415, but these were really old units with Panther installed and no tiger upgrade DVD included. Since Apple ended the OS X up-to-date program for tiger a few months ago, it wasn't really a great deal, having to buy the boxed Tiger as well.
All fine and dandy upgrades.
The main selling point of the mini is the small size and price. Hardly the average consumer will care if it's a 1.25 or 1.33 Ghz chip inside. But since the G4 line is languishing, any update is welcome.
So what were we arguing about?
The main selling point of the mini is the small size and price. Hardly the average consumer will care if it's a 1.25 or 1.33 Ghz chip inside. But since the G4 line is languishing, any update is welcome.
So what were we arguing about?
G5Unit said:
If I had to eliminate one machine, it would be the mini, hands down. emacs are great.
Ask and you shall receive :
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0509macmini.html
"Mac mini revision ready for quiet update
By Ryan Katz, Senior Editor
September 21, 2005 - A Mac mini update is ready for roll-out just two months after Apple bumped the RAM on the systems and added a SuperDrive model, Think Secret has learned. The systems, which are currently in transit to retailers, were originally slated to roll-out this week but may not appear until next week. No announcement is planned beyond a possible press release.
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The low-end Mac mini will be upgraded from a 1.25GHz G4 processor to a 1.33GHz G4, while the high-end will see an equally modest bump from 1.42GHz to 1.5GHz. Hard drive capacities are expected to remain the same but will be upgraded from 4,200-rpm drives to 5,400-rpm. The mid-range and high-end models will receive a new AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth module featuring Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. Lastly, the high-end model will see its 4x SuperDrive upgraded to an 8x dual-layer model.
Pricing will remain the same at $499, $599, and $699, sources said."
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Just goes to show, don't knock page two rumors (or unconfirmed reports), this is the 2nd big rumor (besides the nano) that 'page 2' has scored so far.
Funny, no mention of video card upgrades, I would think it would be a given to match the specs of the ibooks (don't think there are any heat issues for the mini). We'll see. So glad I held off buying.
:http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0509macmini.html
"Mac mini revision ready for quiet update
By Ryan Katz, Senior Editor
September 21, 2005 - A Mac mini update is ready for roll-out just two months after Apple bumped the RAM on the systems and added a SuperDrive model, Think Secret has learned. The systems, which are currently in transit to retailers, were originally slated to roll-out this week but may not appear until next week. No announcement is planned beyond a possible press release.
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The low-end Mac mini will be upgraded from a 1.25GHz G4 processor to a 1.33GHz G4, while the high-end will see an equally modest bump from 1.42GHz to 1.5GHz. Hard drive capacities are expected to remain the same but will be upgraded from 4,200-rpm drives to 5,400-rpm. The mid-range and high-end models will receive a new AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth module featuring Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. Lastly, the high-end model will see its 4x SuperDrive upgraded to an 8x dual-layer model.
Pricing will remain the same at $499, $599, and $699, sources said."
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Just goes to show, don't knock page two rumors (or unconfirmed reports), this is the 2nd big rumor (besides the nano) that 'page 2' has scored so far.
Funny, no mention of video card upgrades, I would think it would be a given to match the specs of the ibooks (don't think there are any heat issues for the mini). We'll see. So glad I held off buying.
I wonder if they'll upgrade the video card but nothing else in a couple months. I doubt it. I don't think the trend of updates every couple months has much of a chance of continuing, but perhaps Apple is using this for practice for when they enter the Intel market.
SonComet said:
I think the most likely is a 9550 with 32mb or a 9200 with 64mb, but I doubt both. A 9550 with 64Mb would put it over the specs of the ibook.
Seems like they are doing the most to juggle the specs to maximize margins (they introed this 2 month rev. B just to get rid of leftover parts IMO). So I think they'll match the ibook video card, unless they still have a bin full of 9200's to get rid of.
wdlove said:
From the real world benchmarks I've seen, the upgrade to the HD will definitely make a noticeable improvement. Its been the real bottleneck so far in mini performance since they upped the RAM. Just see this comparison:
http://www.barefeats.com/mini01c.html
The Hitachi 4K80 and Toshiba are old, slow mini drives. The Seagate 5400 hopefully reflects the kind of performance we'll see in the updated machines.