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2012 Base Mac mini on sale at Best Buy for $399
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No chance. I have a 2012 mini, but I'm under no delusions that it's just another computer. Heck, it can't even be properly used for an HTPC for many reasons:
1.) OSX doesn't support either 24p (23.976hz) playback.
2.) OSX doesn't support HD audio
3.) Even if you run Windows on it, you still won't get 24p playback because Ivy Bridge has the 24.000hz bug only fixed with Haswell.
Movers coupon rejected
The sales droid in Best Buy refused to accept the 10% off movers coupon when I was in the process of getting an open box Mac Mini for 359$. I walked away.
Anybody else get rejected like this? The droid said that their manager told them it wasn't valid.
The sales droid in Best Buy refused to accept the 10% off movers coupon when I was in the process of getting an open box Mac Mini for 359$. I walked away.
Anybody else get rejected like this? The droid said that their manager told them it wasn't valid.
that's bs, there's nothing on the terms and conditions of that coupon that says the mac mini is excluded
That's what I thought but then I found this website:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/regular...on/pcmcat322300050002.c?id=pcmcat322300050002
These coupons aren't supposed to work on apple products. The manager is correct. Some stores are clueless and will do it for you. It all depends on the store. If you go to slick deals, you'll see that people started posting deals with these movers coupons during the summer. Now, its gotten so popular, the post office runs out of mover packs regularly.
If I were you, I would've just taken the open box. Still a very good price and probably not worth driving all around town trying to find a store that will save you an extra 37 bucks.
2012 Base Mac mini on sale at Best Buy for $399
Lol. $359 wasn't good enough for you?
Lol. $359 wasn't good enough for you?
"Apple branded accessories for iPhone, iPad, audio and computing"
it doesn't exclude the Apple Brand itself, just the accessories, unless I am missing something.
Possibly. I wasn't going to argue the point with the kid. I just politely said they'd lost a sale and walked out.
i would have definitely argued on this one, just because the price was too good to walk away from and someone else probably purchased after you had left. to me that reads Apple branded accessories are the only things excluded, but not computers, or tablets.
And the next guy happily bought it. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me... If you want one and found one discounted already, who cares if they don't discount the last 10% that isn't even supposed to happen on open box
It is like: Welcome, we have grand sale - 10% off on everything in the store. Excluded items: any item you would like to buy from our store. Thanks, come again.
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It is like: we have grand sale 10% off on everything in the store. Excludes: any item you would like to buy from our store
Pretty much true.
The possible reason for rejection - open box status. I noticed when I attempted to order open box mini online - it refused to give 5% cash back on my reward card and referred to the open box mini as marketplace item. This coupon specifically restricts such items.
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Yes, it worked flawlessly on my new mac mini dropping price to $404. Not sure about open-box though.
Just get Raspberry Pi $30, decent (20MB/s) 4GB or 8GB class 10 SD card - $9, load Raspbmc on it , pay ~ $5 license fees to unlock MP2, VC1 hardware acceleration (H.264 is included). Overclock to 1.1 GHz using Raspbmc GUI (is not it convenient). Add Flirc USB IR remote - $22 or DIY IR module for $.50 and old PC CD cable. And enjoy 24p forever for a few $ a year of electricity - you do not even need to power it off. Pi runs full linux OS, so you could be creative and host mySQL on network or NAS, configure NFS shares on boot (unified across devices, so they all referencing media consistently) and etc, so then the movie DB is updated across all devices and playback info is shared, so you can start watching movies in living room then continue in the bedroom. I never understood folks spending more than $$ for HTPC needs (not referring to storage). It would be such a waste for mini. I would think Apple engineers were hoping for a bit more than a juke box when they designed mini.
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The movers coupon worked online for me on an open box that brought the total to 340 before tax. Also got a MacBook Air 13.3 in store for 750 with the coupon open box as well. I just ask them to scan it politely, and I say doesn't the computer know if it's not acceptable and this seems to work.
The back of the coupon has an online code. I picked one up at my local post office and had no issue using it online a couple of days ago for my Mac mini purchase.
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Man...Best Buy was great on the Minis...but was highway robbery for a DVI cable. I had my old mini hooked up via VGA, but needed a DVI cable to connect the same monitor to this one. I couldn't stack the DVI to VGA adapter onto the HDMI to DVI one.
I didn't want to wait for eBay, so I checked Walmart. Nothing. Target? Nothing.
Radio Shack was $28.99!
Back to Best Buy. $19.99. So I went and got another Mover's Coupon and got $2 off. LOL!
Man...Best Buy was great on the Minis...but was highway robbery for a DVI cable. I had my old mini hooked up via VGA, but needed a DVI cable to connect the same monitor to this one. I couldn't stack the DVI to VGA adapter onto the HDMI to DVI one.
I didn't want to wait for eBay, so I checked Walmart. Nothing. Target? Nothing.
Radio Shack was $28.99!
Back to Best Buy. $19.99. So I went and got another Mover's Coupon and got $2 off. LOL!
Same issue today.I actually didn't really push for this since I figured I was lucky enough as they honored the $399 deal even though their website was showing $449. This saves me the coupon for something else.
lol, u americans
minimum price I can get 2012 mini for here is 630 usd (after tax)...