On Aug 1, 2011, at 5:33 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On 2011-08-01 17:48 , Nathan Sims wrote: >> A friend of mine was finally persuaded (by me) to go ahead and buy a new Mac >> mini to replace his Win/PC tower, thinking he could reuse his existing >> external drives, keyboard, mouse& monitor. He didn't notice till he got it >> home that Apple removed the Superdrive from the new Mac mini! He called me >> up asking WTF? I didn't realize it either. An external Superdrive is $79 >> extra. On top of that, they also replaced the monitor connector with a >> Thunderbolt socket. So he went back and returned it. Fortunately they had >> one of the previous models still in stock so he bought that instead, and is >> happy with it. >> >> What is Apple thinking -- that everyone's integrated into the iCloud >> already? I thought the mini was in some part for "switchers", but to come >> without even an optical drive is a deal killer. > > note that the price of the new model dropped by $100, wherase the price of > the external drive is $80; hmmmmmm... overall this is a nice an advantage for > those who don't need the drive > > beyond that, for most purposes, the Thunderbolt port works just as the Mini > DisplayPort port did before; the exceptions won't be relevant to switchers > > unless having the drive built-in is a big advantage for your friend (or he > needed to run 10.6), he just duped himself into a substantial downgrade
Well, not really. The old model was $100 off. Besides, he didn't need to purchase any adapters for the Thunderbolt. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
