mine took 4 days from order to door. not upset at all, refurbs are 48 hour or less since they are in stock when u see them in the refurb store!Wow you guys are killin it with the refurbs!! I didn't realize this was a "thing". Maybe someone can school me on the rationale behind getting a refurb rather than new, other than cost? What about concerns regarding why they were refurbs in the first place?
Just took delivery of mine. My biz partner and I both ordered at the same time, through his account through the Gov/Military purchase pgm. i7 3.2ghz 6 core, 8gb ram, 1TB SSD units were $1785 new. We DIY'd the ram, 32GB kit for $199.
Ordering was a bit of a nightmare since apple charges everything on the order separate. Each order had the mini, Applecare, and a TB2/TB3 adapter, plus upgraded shipping, over two orders since they needed to ship to different parts of the country. So 8 charges hit at once. Bank flagged it as fraud. Called bank, cleared charges. Yet somehow Apple wound up charging for mini #1 twice, and wouldn't release the authorization, so it arrived from China to Cali before Mini #2 even shipped!! 7 times we called Apple, each time we were promised it would be taken care, we had nothing to worry about, this isn't common, etc, etc. It wasn't, we did, it does apparently. When I finally got it, it stopped booting after 15min of use. Erased, reinstalled Mojave, and working now, so I guess "all is well that ends well." But that was with a NEW Mini. I feel like I'd really be asking for it with a refurb!
Ours (we ordered two at once) took 6 and 8 days. But we ordered on a Friday night and had to suffer the weekend.
GMW23LL/A has the optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet port. Unless you're transferring files on a server or something like that I wouldn't spend the extra $90
with the i7. Probably will upgrade the RAM down the line, for my current uses 8GB will be fine at this time. Once I fully replace my old desktop and sell the parts I'll fund the RAM. Can't wait to get the thing. Too bad Apple doesn't ship APO directly and the base exchange shop only had i3 and i5.
It's probably because Apple doesn't want to risk losing computers in the APO system. I ordered a Dell and the first one disappeared so they had to send a second. I'm sure someone working at the APO enjoyed their free laptop. The Apple store here only had the i3 and i5 so I'm guessing those are the two standard options and probably the most popular. Hopefully whoever ships your mini removes any Apple shipping labels from the outside of the box before sending it to you.Ordered a Mac Mini
Bad idea IMO. Just use it with what it comes with till you can afford a matching 8 GB (8 x 2 GB should be enough for most people) or 16 GB pair. Not only will dual channel not work as Stephen said but you'll be taking it apart twice thus doubling your chances to damage something internally. If you've taken a few laptops apart it shouldn't be an issue but don't think the mini is anything like taking apart a desktop. It made me nervous and I've replaced laptop motherboards a few times.
