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Mac Mini to be Discontinued?

dwl017 said:
Well folks looks like I have turn the corner and I don't plan to ever come back! I bought my decked out top of the line Dell Hybird a few months before Jobs wrote his insulting comments after a conference call and I finally sealed the deal today when I placed my order for the new Dell mid range tower with the Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 / 2.33 GHz for only $799.
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Good for you. I'm leaning that way myself having just bought a netbook; my first ever windoze computer. Glossy screens and no mid-Mac are really turning me off.
 
Damn a Quad for 799? That sounds pretty cheap. Good luck

Midget Mariachi
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Eidorian said:
http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=104271&d=1203625060

February 2008

That's right.
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Yep! :) so Im glad a few of you see my point and my reason for going over.

A direct quote from SJ a month or so back after a conference call said and I quote!

"we do not know how to build a $500 budget box"

Steve Jobs

PS. All you guys waiting for that new Mini which will no doubt come out at Mac World 09 make sure you take the large jar of lube along and grease up good before the show! :D

Anyway peace guys since I really have no reason to post here anymore enjoy the holiday season :)
 
dwl017 said:
"we do not know how to build a $500 budget box"
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I that was saying the 499 price point vs the 599 price point.....maybe thats just how I read it

dwl017 said:
PS. All you guys waiting for that new Mini which will no doubt come out at Mac World 09 make sure you take the large jar of lube along and grease up good before the show! :D
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haha, i'm sure those expecting Blu-Ray burners, i7 will be sad, but those expecting a modest update should be getting it.
 
zap2 said:
I that was saying the 499 price point vs the 599 price point.....maybe thats just how I read it



haha, i'm sure those expecting Blu-Ray burners, i7 will be sad, but those expecting a modest update should be getting it.
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Below is the quote:

Q: Cheaper Macs? A: We chose not to server a certain customer base. We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk. Our DNA will not allow us to ship that. We can continue to deliver value to customers we do choose to serve.
 
specialbuddy said:
Thanksgiving edition Mac Mini
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God, that looks delicious! Turkey pot pie is one of my all-time favorites. I've been in Korea for 4 years and haven't tasted turkey the whole time.

I think, though, that S.J. would insist that the top of the pie be glazed, for that must-have glossy appeal. :rolleyes:

Oh, and about switching to a PC... I'm leaning that way, too. It'll have be something I can install OSX on, though. No MS OS for me! But Apple is really messing up their hardware line up--all high-end and glossy. With the current economic turmoil, the price of the new machines jumped way out of reach here in Korea (for a 2nd machine at least, which is what I need for work). I really regret, now, selling my old PPC Mac Mini. So, to do light word processing at work, I'm looking at a netbook. Apparently, it's easy to install Leopard on them. And they cost 1/5 of a MB Air around here! On the other hand, I might just try to find a used Mac Mini G4 or Core Solo.... If they update the Mac Mini in January, I may get a new one of those if they are priced reasonably. We'll see.

Personally, I think Apple will see their market share shrink in the next couple of years. Their neglect of the low end will cost them.
 
dwl017 said:
Below is the quote:

Q: Cheaper Macs? A: We chose not to server a certain customer base. We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk. Our DNA will not allow us to ship that. We can continue to deliver value to customers we do choose to serve.
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If that's actually a quote & not a journalist's rewording, then whoever said it sounds like a right arrogant *anker! :)
 
dwl017 said:
Below is the quote:

Q: Cheaper Macs? A: We chose not to server a certain customer base. We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk. Our DNA will not allow us to ship that. We can continue to deliver value to customers we do choose to serve.
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I wonder how Apple employees must feel when their fearless leader publicly says that they are incompetent. Must be great for morale!
 
dwl017 said:
Below is the quote:

Q: Cheaper Macs? A: We chose not to server a certain customer base. We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk. Our DNA will not allow us to ship that. We can continue to deliver value to customers we do choose to serve.
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I know....and as I said, I read that as him addressing why the Mac Mini is no longer 499 as it was when Apple used PPC, and it jumped to 599(which isn't 500) when Apple moved to intel chips.

And remember thats also PR, I'm sure Apple make a 500 dollar Mac, and many people wouldn't call it a "piece of junk", heck a nettop with a atom chip in it would be a fine Mac, which could easily be under 500
 
zap2 said:
I know....and as I said, I read that as him addressing why the Mac Mini is no longer 499 as it was when Apple used PPC, and it jumped to 599(which isn't 500) when Apple moved to intel chips.

And remember thats also PR, I'm sure Apple make a 500 dollar Mac, and many people wouldn't call it a "piece of junk", heck a nettop with a atom chip in it would be a fine Mac, which could easily be under 500
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If they can't make a $500 machine that's not a piece of junk, maybe they should look at design philosophies other than Ive's doctrine slimmer, prettier, less useful. It would be pretty easy to make a machine that's a much better buy than the mini while keeping design standards and being much smaller than SFF machines from the competition. Of course it would be a bit larger and we can't have that.
 
Hm. That's a pretty disappointing soundbyte from Steve Jobs that I somehow completely failed to notice.

I'm a fairly happy iMac owner but I started off with a Mac Mini and thought it was absolutely terrific. The BYODKM thing worked really well for me, and it still does as I sold it on to a friend and he loves it.

Sadly the iMac fails because of its quite frankly pants video card - the same applies to the 24" because the 8800GS just doesn't cut it either. I just can't bring myself to get a Mac Pro JUST to have decent (and upgradeable) graphics so my next step after the iMac might have to be a return to Wintel ownership. I love my iMac but just can't continue to suffer on specs simply because Apple are that arrogant that they can't acknowledge (or tap into) a potentially enormous seam of customer base.

It's a shame really.
 
BenRoethig said:
If they can't make a $500 machine that's not a piece of junk, maybe they should look at design philosophies other than Ive's doctrine slimmer, prettier, less useful. It would be pretty easy to make a machine that's a much better buy than the mini while keeping design standards and being much smaller than SFF machines from the competition. Of course it would be a bit larger and we can't have that.
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haha...but that be crazy TALK :p


Its to bad, I think the market is to full of tower for users who don't need them, but there is without a question a place for them and I'd like to see Apple fill that place
 
Time to bump up this thread :) Mac Mini forever !

Seriously, I just saw the review of the Logitech Dinovo Edge for Mac, and it looks like the perfect match for the mini ! Small, fully-featured, includes a trackpad, should be nice with a Mini used as HTPC.
 
maccompaq said:
This forum is about the Mini!
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Go back and read my original post in this thread before you open your mouth I know what the thread is about so relax! unless you are a MR moderator get off my back! If a moderator feels my post do not belong they will say so until that happens get over it already.
 
dwl017 said:
Go back and read my original post in this thread before you open your mouth I know what the thread is about so relax! unless you are a MR moderator get off my back! If a moderator feels my post do not belong they will say so until that happens get over it already.
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This thread is about the MINI!
 
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