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Apple lowered the prices of Mac Mini upgrades! and now 8x Superdrive!
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doesn't quite make sense to me
I would think switchers are coming over to this side to leave windows experience. Also, if folks think they should be dissatisfied with vpc and mac mini on 256mb memory. They should give some the keys to drive them home....
rog said:
I would think switchers are coming over to this side to leave windows experience. Also, if folks think they should be dissatisfied with vpc and mac mini on 256mb memory. They should give some the keys to drive them home....
Apple Price Protection Policy
I looked through the thread and did see this. Anyone who had a Mac Mini shipped to them last week CAN get a credit from Apple. It's right in their policies.
http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/salespolicies.html#Apple Prices
PRICES
The Apple Store endeavors to offer you competitive prices on current Apple products and selected Sale and Apple Certified Reconditioned products. Your total order price will include the price of the product (on the day of shipping) plus any applicable sales tax and shipping charges. Apple reserves the right to change prices for products displayed at the Apple Store at any time.
Should Apple reduce its price on any shipped product within 10 calendar days of shipment, you may contact Apple Sales Support at 1-800-676-2775 to request a refund or credit of the difference between the price you were charged and the current selling price. To receive the refund or credit you must contact Apple within 14 business days of shipment.
I looked through the thread and did see this. Anyone who had a Mac Mini shipped to them last week CAN get a credit from Apple. It's right in their policies.
http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/salespolicies.html#Apple Prices
PRICES
The Apple Store endeavors to offer you competitive prices on current Apple products and selected Sale and Apple Certified Reconditioned products. Your total order price will include the price of the product (on the day of shipping) plus any applicable sales tax and shipping charges. Apple reserves the right to change prices for products displayed at the Apple Store at any time.
Should Apple reduce its price on any shipped product within 10 calendar days of shipment, you may contact Apple Sales Support at 1-800-676-2775 to request a refund or credit of the difference between the price you were charged and the current selling price. To receive the refund or credit you must contact Apple within 14 business days of shipment.
Object-X said:
The quality of Apple memory, the tightness of the specs, is also generally much better than cheap third party memory. I speak from experience with both over the past 20 years. There are third party vendors who offer excellent memory but there is also a lot of slock out there. For the average user who isn't tech savy and wants to be sure of getting the right thing, it is worth it for them to pay a bit extra to Apple.
pubwvj said:
You may have a point. There was a poster here that mentioned upgrading his Mac mini to 1gb from Crucial and his XBench score went down by 15. Would be interesting to have an Apple installed 1gb Mac mini tested to see what is what there. I know that XBench is not perfect, but my PB 12" went up by 4 or 5 once I went from 256 to 1.25gb.
bigandy said:
Be careful, you'll be labeled a Apple fan boy!
Actually I haven't had any memory fail on any of my computers. Bought the good stuff and the cheap stuff.
iJWC said:
Thanks for the link. It sort of confirms their feeling in the Mac mini review. A member here did set me straight on Core Image and PS. He had seems to remember hearing that Adobe stating they had no interest in supporting Core Image, since it was not going to be cross platform compatible.
LOL
No u r still an idiot. U were comparing 2 different beasts! The price drop is more likely a result of their new price matching policy. With Macmall offering cheaper prices on upgrades, free keyboards, etc., they're just heading price comparison complaints off at the pass.
swissmann said:
No u r still an idiot. U were comparing 2 different beasts! The price drop is more likely a result of their new price matching policy. With Macmall offering cheaper prices on upgrades, free keyboards, etc., they're just heading price comparison complaints off at the pass.
My 1.4 mini came with Samsung branded stick. I put a crucial 1 gig stick in her now and it has made a huge differnce. Apple does not make their own memory. So I don't get were some guys above say Apple memory is better than Crucial, Kingston ect.Lacero said:
bigandy said:
Yes you are wrong Apple primarily uses Micron memory sticks in their machines which is exactly what Crucial Uses. Apple does not make memory. My new PowerMac G5 came with two stock 256MB Micron Branded sticks and then I bought two more Micron branded sticks from crucial. They are exactly identical down to the labels on the memory sticks. Apple does use quality memory in their machines though which almost always happen to be Micron or Samsung. Crucial memory is Micron as Crucial is a subsidiary distribution channel for Micron which is the Nations largest Memory manufacturer. Crucial also is'nt cheap in fact their prices tend to be much higher than other places it just looks cheap in comparison to the astonomical prices that Apple charges for the exact same stuff.
BillD222 said:
As any idiot would know, Apple's price match policy does not apply to your examples.
Which products qualify?
This program applies to identical Apple-branded, preconfigured, and configured-to-order hardware and software products that are currently in stock at an Apple Authorized reseller. The products must be ones for which Apple currently is taking orders on the Apple Store, with estimated delivery dates of not more than three (3) weeks. Price matching does not apply to iPod shuffle.
Bundled, used, refurbished, discontinued, demonstration or exhibit products, and products from other manufacturers are not eligible. This offer is not applicable to backordered Apple Store products or products with an estimated delivery date of more than three (3) weeks.
Just got this from apple....
Thank you for your recent order!
Apple is very excited about the popularity of the new Mac mini and we want
every customer who ordered one to be absolutely satisfied.
We want to clarify some confusion regarding the speed of the SuperDrive that
comes with your computer. For a short time, the Apple Store online incorrectly
referenced a SuperDrive burning speed of 8x. The actual recording speed is up
to 4x for supported DVD recordable media on Mac mini. The drive writes to CD-R at 16x and CD-RW at 8x.
Thank you for your recent order!
Apple is very excited about the popularity of the new Mac mini and we want
every customer who ordered one to be absolutely satisfied.
We want to clarify some confusion regarding the speed of the SuperDrive that
comes with your computer. For a short time, the Apple Store online incorrectly
referenced a SuperDrive burning speed of 8x. The actual recording speed is up
to 4x for supported DVD recordable media on Mac mini. The drive writes to CD-R at 16x and CD-RW at 8x.
It may turn out that you'll be able to change the firmware to enable 8x burning, like what happened with the Rev A 17" Powerbook (Apple crippled it to 1x when it was a 2x drive). The Mac mini drive is apparently an Matsushita UJ-835x, which is rated at 8x.
I agree 100% plus you have Core Image to think about!HarmlessRabbit said:Since anyone buying today doesn't care that in less than six months they will have to shell out 20% of the price of the Mini for Tiger ($129), I'm guessing that early adopters don't care about price anyway.
But seriously, unless you absolutely *must* have a mini *now*, veruca salt style, why wouldn't you wait to get Tiger for free?
billystlyes said:
But reports are that the card in the Mac mini will not support Core Image, despite our hopes that the pulling of specs on what is needed for Core Image. This came from one of the better reviews on the Mac mini, and supported by the reviewers call to ATI.
http://anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2328&p=6 (near the bottom of the page)
Chip NoVaMac said:
ATI says the 9200 won't support core image?
Wish I had held off on getting my Mini!
billystlyes said:ATI says the 9200 won't support core image?
From the Keynote 2 help:
"Transition or build effects aren't working
Some effects (such as Disintegrate, Flash, and Ripple) require an advanced graphics card. If the computer playing the presentation doesn't have an advanced graphics card, these effects may not display properly.
These effects are listed under "can't play on this computer" in the Effects pop-up menu."
Try running Keynote 2 on your Mac mini and check the transistions - see if it lists any that won't play. I have a Radeon 9000 in my Powermac G4, and it won't play the Burn and Flash effects. I think this has something to do with Core Image-style GPU accelerated effects in Keynote 2 (not Quartz Extreme - the Radeon 9000 and 9200 support that).