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1rst post!

Anticlimatic

Couldn't this have just been a mistake? What evidence is there that Apple is upgrading all the Macminis?

anaknipedro,

Try reading the MacDailyNews Note.

Just another reason why Apple kicks a$$.

Its like finding 20 bucks in your pocket that you didn't know you had!

Could these improvements been part of the original launch? The answer is a resounding YES, YES, YES.

Apple is increasingly taking advantage of over-anxious customers.

It's a practice that will ruin any chance for any material increase in market share.

stealth upgrade the video card and I will buy one!

Wow, Pete, talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth! I didn't think it was possible to turn that news into a negative, but you managed. Bravo.

MW "green" - more computer for the same amount of green--I dunno but it sounds like a good thing to me.

Who cares about mac mini, it is a useless product unless you are on of the 1 in a zillion nerds with hobbies to play with little computers, the whole reason apple did not make an announcement about it is obviously because barely anyone purchases a mac mini.


according to apple they sell 1 mac mini per month.

that was a fluke!

You, sir, are a retard... or a good troll

USELESS:
How about backing up your USELESS comment with a link to your faulty logic?

Useless: You are correct, you are useless.

I have one. My mother has one. And two of my friends have them.

This upgrade is not on the Apple website.

always Right,

I wish you'd kept your promise!

There's nothing so boring or so childish as the silly first-posters.

This is definitely a wrong order. Somehow the order numbers got screwed. There's no way in hell that someone's going to get every single item bumped up like that.

A friend of mine ordered an iPod Nano and got a black iPod 60GB video. One stupid, although likely true, anecdote deserves another.

Is it just me or has everyone noticed this new negative tone in many of the posters on MDN? Is this a result of Apples recent success?

It just seems that we have more people here that want to take shots at Apple than we used to. Are you guys just pissed off PC users that have nothing better to do with your time?

macmini....ahhh...the computer to bring Apple to the masses of PC users....
whyohwhy would one buy amacmini?
ikeep looking at them when i goto the apple store, thinking why, give me a reason why i would buy it?,then my eyes swing over to the other great offerings by apple and shake my head...why waste one´s money on a macmini?
buy a Mac notebook, iMac - great computers...the macmini...erggh. its like somebody originally had a great idea for this - sometype of communications center perhaps and then the followthrough was shelved...if the macmini disappeared would anyone care?

Wonder what folks who ordered the 'better' config with the Core Duo chip got?

We’re used to Pete’s negativity. SNL does a skit about him called Debbie Downer.

He wouldn’t be happy if you gave him a blow job. He’d want a handjob instead. Of course, if you’d given him a handjob he would complain that it wasn’t a blowjob.

Good thing for him is he’s also a loner…he doesn’t have to worry he’s not getting a bj or an hj.

88

"Are you guys just pissed off PC users that have nothing better to do with your time?"

No, pissed off Mac owners (recall my battery please) that like to listen to whiners like you. Once you get a lemon from Apple (twice now for me) you suddenly get to see the side of Apple that you thought was never there. the shine is off the apple.

Jerry T: "Of course, if you’d given him a handjob he would complain that it wasn’t a blowjob."

Well, Jerry T, we now know how limited your sex life is...don´t worry, there is nothing wrong with being gay.

Nice of course to get more computer than you expected. But if you're in the market for a Core Duo 1.66 mini, it would be awful to pay the Core Duo price only to find you could get the same thing for much less money.

Makes sense for Apple, but the savvy consumer beware.

to pete:

NO these could not have been part of the original launch. Intel just lowered their prices. They can AFFORD more than they could 8 months ago.

You think Apple should have taken a loss for 8 months?

Hey, I love my Mac mini. It kicks ass. Right now it's the control unit for my home media center, the communications center for video iChating with my relatives accross the state and it's my personal webserver (and soon to be ftp and mail server as soon as I set everything up). So, what can you do with a Mini? Turns out, you can do a lot!

Useless, why don't you hook your useless mac mini into your DVI compatible TV and view your computer full resolution, surf the web, DVD's, iPhoto slideshows, etc, etc, etc. Spring for a wireless keyboard and laser mighty mouse and you will never have to take your fat ass and fat mouth off the couch.

According to the Apple website, there is no changes in specs. They are still selling the core solos.

WHO WOULD BY A MAC MINI?

I have an old PowerPC my wife uses for email and some typing. I'm thinking of getting a Mac Mini for her. We cab reuse the monitor and all I need to buy is a USB keyboard.

Perfect. Didn't have to spend a ton.

Rammer,

Then get a Dell buddy. They obliously have their battery issues under control.

I know that Apple isn't perfect, nothing is.
For the record i've owned over 20 Macs over the last ten years. I've delt couple of battery recalls, a couple of ibook logic board replacements, even a powerbook power supply replacement. But Apple always taken care of the products, in a very timely fashion. I have no complaints.

Maybe you're expectations are too high.

macsaplenty - yes, I agree. Many of the MDN posters seem to be very frustrated people. It has amused me to no end that many of the visitors are making stuff up with assumptions and the exact same logic they once bashed in PC and Windows users. Hypocracy is annoying.

Got a Mac Mini hooked via HDMI to a mammoth screen, and fiber optic audio. 802.11n from server (about 7 TB). Thing kicks ass!

I love that little guy.

"Apple is increasingly taking advantage of over-anxious customers."

Welcome to capitalism Mr Obvious. Funny how you waste your time complaining about some non-issue that no one cares about because its a non issue, and yet paying 3$ a gallon for gas is probably OK with you.

And Winblows/PC trolls are even more annoying...

im not fat. i like macbooks

The Solo is just a Core (1) Duo that had a flaw in one of the two cores. Early on Intel announced its deemphasis of the Solo, probable because their ramp up was so successful and fully functional Core Duo yields were so high. So the switch makes sense.

And remember the stories about not being able to bulk order Minis last week? It seems consistent with the silent switch.

But it still appears that the chip used is still from the old pseudo core architecture – Core 1. Intel will surely deprecate this line, so I expect a Core 2 variety is in the works.

More important than all this would be a move to a desktop size – 3.5 inch – hard drive at the cost of a fraction of an inch increase in the Mini's height. Speed and capacity would go up and cost down. A $499 Mini would really puts the screws on the competition for low cost PC boxes.

"Got a Mac Mini hooked via HDMI to a mammoth screen, and fiber optic audio. 802.11n from server (about 7 TB). Thing kicks ass!

Serious question: So you are streaming via pre-draft n? from the server to the mini? Do you have some sort of pre-draft 802.11n external device for your mini? Curious as to how you are doing this as minis don't have n cards and n is not a finalized protocol yet - although there are pre-draft n cards out there. Not trying to debunk - just want to know how.

I only hope that an iMac upgrade is in the works soon, too.

In the past, we've seen Apple ship us products that far exceed what we ordered. Not once, but many times. The boxes and packing slips will list the correct product, but the merchandise inside will be one or two notches above that.

I personally have grown accustomed to this. Tacking it to a company that acknowledges its supply problems and tries to make the best of it any which way.

One thing's for sure, though. We've never complained. Nor send the merchandise back.

Who are you kidding?

^^^ or draft-n

zelfort,

Who said there was anything wrong with being gay in the first place?

Are you just reassuring yourself? Is that your way of coming out?

They bumped the refurb G5 I purchased a couple of years ago. It was supposed to come with an Nvidia graphics card, 512MB RAM, and a 80GB drive. It arrived with an ATI Radeon 9600 XT, 1GB RAM and a 160GB drive. While browsing a Mac forum, I saw several other people report getting better products when ordering refurb from Apple. It seems to be a common practice with their refurb products, but I've never heard of it with new hardware. (And the refurb G5 has run flawlessly since the day I got it.)

zelfort,

And yes I do have a limited sex life. My lady only has 3 holes, 2 hands and 2 feet.

No matter how many positions we try, it's still those same 3 holes.

I did meet a hot Lebanese chick that I wanted to “broaden” my horizons with though, but I couldn’t convince my woman to swing…though she would like to see some gay sex. Are you hitting on me still zelfort?

Rammer,

Apple just doesn't like *you*. We have ordered literally hundreds of Macs over the past 20 years and have never gotten a "lemon". In fact, I can only recall two needing any "official" hardware service.

You should definitely switch to a PC and Windows. At least then you won't be disappointed when you get a lemon and an OS that is more trouble than it's worth--that's the modus operandi for them. Come to think about it, I don't know one person personally that owns a Dell that *hasn't* had significnt hardware or OS problems in the past year. Seen Dell's customer support ratings lately? So please leave the Apple camp as soon as possible so you will find a more comfortable place in the world of PCs and Microsoft where your every expecation will be met.

minithoughts said:

Aug 31, 06 - 02:08 pm

macmini....ahhh...the computer to bring Apple to the masses of PC users....
whyohwhy would one buy amacmini?
ikeep looking at them when i goto the apple store, thinking why, give me a reason why i would buy it?,then my eyes swing over to the other great offerings by apple and shake my head...why waste one´s money on a macmini?
buy a Mac notebook, iMac - great computers...the macmini...erggh. its like somebody originally had a great idea for this - sometype of communications center perhaps and then the followthrough was shelved...if the macmini disappeared would anyone care?

Why would one buy a macmini? The answer is very easy. Someone, say me for example, needs a headless Mac to integrate into the home theater system. An iMac wouldn't work very well in that scenario, now would it? Nor would a Mac Pro. I already own an iMac, Powerbook, and iBook, but I would eventually like to get a small headless computer to fit on my A/V shelf.

Told you.

You'll believe me from now on.

Jerry T

Three hole? Never met a chick who liked getting it in the ears.

Re: minithoughts

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Aug 31, 06 - 02:08 pm

macmini....ahhh...the computer to bring Apple to the masses of PC users....
whyohwhy would one buy amacmini?
ikeep looking at them when i goto the apple store, thinking why, give me a reason why i would buy it?,then my eyes swing over to the other great offerings by apple and shake my head...why waste one´s money on a macmini?
buy a Mac notebook, iMac - great computers...the macmini...erggh. its like somebody originally had a great idea for this - sometype of communications center perhaps and then the followthrough was shelved...if the macmini disappeared would anyone care?
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Whats wrong with a Mini ? Its perfect for alot of people for alot of different reasons. For me it was an easy route in the Apple world, I already had my 20" wide screen and wireless keyboard from my retired PC, so the mini made perfect sense, and isnt the whole Apple experience more to do with the operating system, applications, integration and an easy computing lifestyle than to do with the hardware. In fact its opened the door to Apple for me, and I'd love to get a Macbook to replace my Dell laptop, and to compliment my Mini, but not to replace it ....

I personally think there would be many people who who miss the mini if it disappeared .....

Buster,

Sorry, forgot the ears...that would be 5 holes then.

Buster, sell the Dell and mini, etc and get a Macbook.

I've got a mini and I love the thing... People! it's not a pissing contest. Decide what you need, what you can afford, and buy it. I had a g4 400Mhz tower for years, ran jaguar on the thing and it held up great. I upgraded to a used, pre-intel fully loaded mini with apple care left, for a great price this year, and I have NEVER CRASHED IT!!!! I only use my computer for photo-editing and web design (and basic entertainment crap). I would get a portable computer if I needed it, but I dont. Sure it would come in handy on occasion, but not worth the 2x price tag.
anyways... the macbooks look really nice, I'll probably get one when I need it.

If it were $599 for a duo-core w superdrive it's worth buying. Until this is confirmed I would never buy a mini though. The price is too high for a monitor-less computer with these specs.

I bought the first mac mini that came out and I love it. Not only have I not had any of the normal virus problems that I had with my many PC's but I don't hit my foot on the stupid case.
love it.