please lower them in the US as well! i really wish there was a $499 mini again (my first mac was a mac mini back in 2005)
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Apple Drops Price of Mac Mini Internationally
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Mac Pro price has not changed at all, but has been mentioned by others, the Mac Mini has dropped by $100AU.
I am right... have all the $AUS mac prices been dropped... imac 27" by $200?
Good news but....
It's still not back to the price of £499,- it once was in the UK. As such it is still about £100,- away from getting back in my price range. I have the original G4 mini, still going strong, but is starting to struggle with some content and video playback of higher res content online nowadays, apart from that it is still a great little machine, but I'd love to retire it for a new one, if only I could afford it....
It's still not back to the price of £499,- it once was in the UK. As such it is still about £100,- away from getting back in my price range. I have the original G4 mini, still going strong, but is starting to struggle with some content and video playback of higher res content online nowadays, apart from that it is still a great little machine, but I'd love to retire it for a new one, if only I could afford it....
Wow! Maybe someone has been reading this thread.
I think $899 is perfect for the mini. At least until the next gen comes out. Great move I think Now just get more of them out on display please retailers.
The price cuts are a good sign. Unfortunately you'll never get price parity with US prices, even if the AUD is on par (and actually briefly went above parity), since you have to factor in 10% GST, and that they will always build a buffer into the price, in case the AUD drops backwards. They're not going to want to be constantly changing prices as the AUD shifts.
I believe it's due to the effect of weakness of the US dollar.
In Hong Kong, the price hasn't changed (as far as I can tell) and HK dollar is pegged to US dollar.
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It should still be. I was very tempted by the G4 when it launched at that price, but saved my pennies instead and got an MBP a while later.
I got the current mini on on launch day. £499 I think, minus the work related discount. Slapped 4Gb of RAM in it - it's a cracking bit of kit.
Er yep, I've always wondered about that but by your logic, Apple Australia is paying retail prices to get their products from Apple US, not wholesale prices.
If the local operation paid wholesale prices, then surely the retail margin would pay for the shops & offices & compliance??? How is it any different to opening a store in Florida for a company based in California? How??
CK.
Wouldn't the appropriate idiom in Australia be "heading north"?
Actually, no. The wordplay psychology is very simple down under:
North = up = sun = hotter
South = down = antarctic = colder (lower temp on the chart)
The one thing I couldn't get my head around when I travelled to US/UK was that the sun was "down south". Huh? Plus your Xmas / New Year holidays are just a blip in the business cycle, whereas here it coincides with summer and the whole of January is off work, mate. Much more sensible (except the snow-theme decorations, I grant you).
And no, we don't have much that migrates north or south really. Everything's pretty damn temperate around here and we don't really know what "seasons" are like in the way you do. Average days through the year have 20ºF difference 40ºF with extreme examples.
Only if they like throwing away useful, functioning equipment
When I bought my G4, I used the LCD I had with the G3 it replaced then bought a second 19" LCD and a 256Mb GeForce 6200. I maxed out the RAM to 1.5Gb and bought a 23" 1080p LCD last year.
I need the flexibility of being able to re-use the screens with my next mac too.
An iMac has an awful glossy screen with far too high a DPI for me to cope with and I'd never afford a Mac Pro.
A Mac Mini + an external FireWire 800 drive then adding 3rd party RAM and upgrading the internal drive to an SSD at a later stage is the "compromise" of a system I'm going to settle for eventually because Apple make no equivalent to the entry level tower systems they used to offer in the PowerPC days.
That makes the 2010 Mac Mini a joke!
Unresponsive system? Choppy video?
Considering it uses 256Mb for VRAM and with 2Gb a Mac Mini only has 256Mb more than my current mac, I'd expect it to be able to cope with something my G4 can handle. Even if I do have a 7200rpm ATA drive used purely for the OS and store all my files on a separate drive.
I guess the choppy performance of the mac mini is because 2Gb is inadequate and it has such a slow internal drive, it's effecting swap activity. Pathetic.
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I've not followed this thread much so this may already be known, but the Australia prices seem unchanged.
Definitely gone down to $899 a few days back. I'm hoping to see a processor upgrade in the new year. If that comes out at this price too I think apple will be onto a winner.