Thinking about a mac mini

So here's the conversation I just had with an Apple Store sales rep (Yorkdale Mall, Toronto), word-for-word:

Me: Good morning, I'd like to know the price on a Core-Duo mac mini.

rep: Oh about 950-995 (CDN $), that range.

Me: How much RAM does it come with?

rep: 512mb.

Me: Expandable to?

rep: 1 gig. Well no, not really, but 2 gigs is expensive.

(at this point I'm thinking, hell, you can get RAM nowadays for a piece of gum. I threw 1 gig onto my Asus board for peanuts. Can't be *that* bad.)

Me: Just how expensive?

rep: About $700.

Me: Why on earth would RAM cost that much???

rep: Well it's a new kind of chip . . . it's new. Go to Apple.ca for more info.

I'm still trying to pick myself up off the floor. Seems I have to bend over real deep-like in order to have OS X Tiger check my mail and burn cds at a decent clip. Gimme a break.

That guy was full of shit. A quick search on the web shows you can get 2 gb of ram for a mac mini for under 300 hundred dollars.


Go find a quote online, print it out, take it to the guy you spoke with and tell him he's either ignorant or a liar.

http://www.ramjet.com/ItemDescription.asp?Item=MMIN2G


I'm sure with additional poking about you could get a better name for less.

Seems I have to bend over real deep-like in order to have OS X Tiger check my mail and burn cds at a decent clip. Gimme a break.

I'm on a Powerbook with 512MB of RAM (yes, it's starved), and I haven't seen a performance hiccup even with more than seven "daily programs" running simultaneously.

There's mac office, so you don't have to worry about your word files.

Well I did it. Went in for a 17" imac 1.83ghz Core Duo, 667mhz bus, 2mb L2 cache, 512mb RAM (will upgrade to 2gb), OS X Tiger, iLife, Front Row, a nice ATI Radeon X1600 128mb, and lots more.

Even though it's got a 17" LCD, it seems larger due to it being a wide aspect and beautifully bright. Puts my 19" NEC Multisync CRT (bought summer 2002) to shame.

Wow. Wow. Wow.

I finally understand why these Mac zealots are foaming at the mouth . . . it's an entirely unique experience.

**wipes away foam with sleeve**

Thanks for all the help, everyone. :-)

congrats (:
i'd like to get a mac mini one day (:

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BALAKU GUAM

I bought an iBook in the beginning of this month. It is a 1,42 GHz 14" version with 1GB Ram. In the beginning i had problems to handle the one button touchpad and the os. But after one week... i started with music recording. And it really is a different experience. The quality is good and the easy and simple way GarageBand works is enjoyable. I plug my M-Audio FireWire Dock into the iBook and everything works. After the first try.

Now i have big luck and will give this iBook to a friend of mine who considered to buy a notebook for pretty long. I gave him the iBook to try it out and he said he´ll buy it for the price i bought it. So i lost nothing. But i don´t regret it... and will wait until the new version with the intel cpu will be out.

And setting up your dial connection really won´t be a problem ;)

And i look forward to see the first windows customized iMac from you.

Hrmn... no more funny comments i guess.

i bought an imac intel 17'' 1.83 GHz Core duo...

just great.

i love the front row shizzle

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what does front row do?

also, has anyone used both a mac and a pc for video editing? which did you prefer?

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Want to know what Front Row does?

http://www.google.com/search?q=apple+front+row

First link.

Have you seen this DioS?

http://www.equinux.com/us/products/mediacentral/index.html

I´ll try it as soon as i have my own iBook ahrm. MacBook

nice find imrik :D thanks :D

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featured artist of the week toffek
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i just got a 15" macbook pro and am also foaming at the mouth lately. loving it.

I have a 15" 1.5ghz powerbook and I really enjoy it. thoroughly enjoy OS X too.