Purely imo, used apple hardware is generally a bad deal. Looking at the prices of apples on ebay, the used ones are indeed cheaper, but considdering that in the uk the mini costs £400 or £336 if you can find someone that goes to uni, I realy do think its worth shelling out a tad bit more and getting something new, especially if something goes wrong on the hardware side. The only exception to the above that I have come accross was my emac which cost me £70 including shipping; this came with a g4 1.42, 512mb of ram and a 80gb drive with all the usuals like optical drive, keyboard and mouse. So long as you don't get apple sertified ram, the 512's easiely upgradable to 2gb for just shie of £30 so you've got quite a nice machine for around £100, but the same machine now goes for around £150 for some reason. If you are content with not running snow leopard, we should see quite a big reduction in the g4's and g5's soon due to them not beeing able to run it. As a after thought, the ibooks were always the powerbooks little brother anyway and considdering that it won't be covered with apple care, i'd really advise against it. hth.
On 01/12/2008, Esther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > I recall that Jude posted once that the Southern Maryland Mac Users > Group had an arrangement with a local support organization that could > do these kinds of upgrades. Sounds like the right area and venue. > Maybe you could get in touch with him? I do think the Mini is so > tightly packed that you'd want help in doing any upgrades. Here's the > list post I was thinking about: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17666.html > > The issue came up in a discussion of good starter machines, because of > concerns that the Minis are hard to open up. Remember that Cheryl had > hers upgraded by an authorized Apple service location. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Dec 1, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > >> I'd sure like to know how to open the Mini. I'd try upgrading the >> older G4 we have with a bit more ram. It's a nice box, but a bit >> slow and more ram might do the trick. It's only got 512Mb at this >> point. >> On Dec 1, 2008, at 5:57 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >> >>> A drive replacement isn't a overly big deal. >>> Despite the minies beeing quite hard to take apart, i've heard that >>> they take standard 2.5 drives along with laptop ram, both of which >>> are >>> meant to be replaceable by the user. >>> Plus, if its that old, you'll probably have a 5400 rpm drive so you >>> should see a noticeable difference if you get a 7200. >>> >>> On 01/12/2008, Richie Gardenhire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> At first, I thought that Leopard may have had a corrupted file; >>>> however, I uninstalled it, and reinstalled Tiger. It would start, >>>> then about two or three minutes later, it would reboot. Now I can't >>>> get to the Software Update, to update all the ones that are >>>> available >>>> for Tiger. Tomorrow I will check all possibilities, including the >>>> worst-case scenarios--i.e. one of my drives having to be >>>> replaced. I >>>> will keep y'all posted on what I find out. Richie Gardenhire, >>>> Anchorage, Alaska. >>>> On Nov 30, 2008, at 11:02 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >>>> >>>>> Exactly what is wrong with it? >>>>> >>>>> On 01/12/2008, Richie Gardenhire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> Well, my Mac Mini bit the dust today, and now the only thing I >>>>>> can do >>>>>> with it is run Tiger on it. Not sure if I want to either sell >>>>>> it and >>>>>> use the money to gut a refurbished iBook, which a friend of mine >>>>>> has >>>>>> and wants to sell. Iw had been a good machine for me for the >>>>>> better >>>>>> part of two years, but I can't use it very much now. In >>>>>> addition, my >>>>>> Apple Care for the Mini will no longer cover it. That, having >>>>>> been >>>>>> said, I will explore all my options and decide which course I will >>>>>> take before too long. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Kind regards, BEN. >>>>> >>>>> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Kind regards, BEN. >>> >>> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >>> >> >> Scott Howell >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> > > > -- Kind regards, BEN. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction)
