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| Joey Starr Senior Member  Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 |  Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 1:27PM |
| ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist 5405 Posts 4/03 | Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 2:10AM [Link] |
| Dave_K99 Member 497 Posts 12/07 | Posted - Jun 16 2010 : 5:21PM It is expensive though, especially in Europe. You can pick up a decent quality laptop with a similar spec for less money, and the Mac Mini doesn't include a keyboard, mouse or screen. It's worse if you want something better than the basic model; Apple really seem to gouge their users on upgrades. For example, charging £450 for a Mac Pro 2Tb hard drive, £80 extra to upgrade the Mac Mini's 320Gb hard drive to 500Gb, or £123 extra to bump the Mac Mini's speed from 2.4GHz to 2.66GHz. The profit margins must be amazing compared with PC builders, no wonder they've overtaken Microsoft as the most valuable tech company. [Link] |
| Leyden Senior Member The people have spoken. I'm a nitpicking dick. Woo! 8751 Posts 1/04 | Posted - Jun 18 2010 : 2:22AM macsales.com $295 for 8 gigabytes apple.com $500 for 8 gigabytes [Link] |
| Dave_K99 Member 497 Posts 12/07 | Posted - Jun 18 2010 : 5:07PM Hard to see how they can justify the Apple tax when it's a standard component; it's not like they can claim that you're paying for better quality Apple design. With the RAM it's easy enough to add it yourself and save some money, but with something like the CPU it's trickier, and the upgrade invalidates your warranty. That's definitely one of the things that puts me off buying Apple hardware, even though I like the OS. [Link] |
| ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist 5405 Posts 4/03 | Posted - Jun 20 2010 : 2:47AM [Link] |
| Dave_K99 Member 497 Posts 12/07 | Posted - Jun 20 2010 : 4:59AM [Link] |
| ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist 5405 Posts 4/03 | Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 1:44AM [Link] |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 1:51AM [Link] |
| ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist 5405 Posts 4/03 | Posted - Jun 23 2010 : 1:39AM [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Jun 24 2010 : 8:36AM [Link] |
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