I agree with Chipp about the memory footprint, but I'm not concerned about configuring the beast with a wireless keyboard/mouse from Apple. You can buy those goodies far less expensively from other manufacturers. A friend of mine called me yesterday and told me that he'd configured a new Mac Mini with a monitor, keyboard and mouse and brought the whole package in for just over $600.

What this does,l I think, is allow people to get the elegance of OS X without paying excessively for Apple's (superior?) industrial design.

Dan

On Jan 15, 2005, at 12:54 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:

Andy,

Nothing a can of SprayMount and hammer with a good size nail can't fix ;-)

(just kidding for you too serious Mac-heads out there- and I mean you Jerry!)

One thing about the miniMac. I went to the Apple website and configured the elCheapo ($499 - 1.25GHz) version how I'd like it:

I added 256 Mb RAM to get to 512, then added the wireless and bluetooth option along with a wireless keyboard/mouse and now it's over $800! Dang that was quick. And still no display. Heck for a couple hundred more I can get an iBook.

I can't figure out why it doesn't come standard with 512. If in fact, Apple is trying to woo users away from PC's, it would seem they would want to have a bit more snappy profile than 256. C'est la vie.

-Chipp

yoy wrote:
If only Apple had molded a picture frame into the top surface and a small
recessed hole in the bottom surface, I could put a picture of my dear old
Grandma in the picture frame, put a nail in the wall and then hang the mini
mac on the wall.


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