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Upgraded Mac Minis Confirmed by Apple

I ordered a 1.42/1GB/80GB/SD/AE/BT on 10/10/05 from Apple Store Online. This is my first purchse of a MAC I have been using PC's for about 12 years. I assumed that I got what I paid for, but after visiting various forums the past couple weeks I finally remembered to check my Mini. I was pleaseantly surprised that I rcvd one of the 1.5 updated Mini's. If Apple keeps this up I may be a MAC user for life :) .
 
AMC74AMX said:
I ordered a 1.42/1GB/80GB/SD/AE/BT on 10/10/05 from Apple Store Online. This is my first purchse of a MAC I have been using PC's for about 12 years. I assumed that I got what I paid for, but after visiting various forums the past couple weeks I finally remembered to check my Mini. I was pleaseantly surprised that I rcvd one of the 1.5 updated Mini's. If Apple keeps this up I may be a MAC user for life :) .
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Can you post details, like model number, serial number, part number?
 
still any "upgraded ones" coming out?

I talked to an Apple Sales Rep today, and he said that there was a period when the Mac minis were being sent out with the upgrades (e.g. 64 MB video memory), but they are no longer doing this. Is this true?
 
Jimmery said:
I talked to an Apple Sales Rep today, and he said that there was a period when the Mac minis were being sent out with the upgrades (e.g. 64 MB video memory), but they are no longer doing this. Is this true?
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So they are phasing it out now?
 
generik said:
So they are phasing it out now?
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I guess if this is true we're pointing to the probable introduction of Intel Mac minis at MacWorld this coming January... possibly being the operative word here!?! :D
 
generik said:
Any australians received a 1.5 mini? ;)
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I bought my Mac Mini in October from NextByte Computers (Sydney) and to my surprise it was the 1.5Ghz model (YAY), so that is a yes for 1.5Ghz Mac Mini's floating around in Australia.

But really does an extra 32MB video memory and .8Ghz make a heap of performance difference overall? The extra stuff is nice but for anyone using Safari, Appleworks, iLife and iTunes you're not really going to notice that much of a perfermance gain. And if you really need the extra grunt Apple always has the G5 iMac;)
 
Dvd+rw Dl

ezekielrage_99 said:
I bought my Mac Mini in October from NextByte Computers (Sydney) and to my surprise it was the 1.5Ghz model (YAY), so that is a yes for 1.5Ghz Mac Mini's floating around in Australia.
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Do you really have a DL DVD+RW drive?

F
 
Jimmery said:
I talked to an Apple Sales Rep today, and he said that there was a period when the Mac minis were being sent out with the upgrades (e.g. 64 MB video memory), but they are no longer doing this. Is this true?
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If that is true, I'm pretty p***ed, I was going to order a BTO mac mini tomorrow hoping to get a bit of a discount since is black friday on the apple store.

Can anyone confirm or unconfirm these unpleasant news?
Why would they do that?
 
FireArse said:
Do you really have a DL DVD+RW drive?

F
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I got the one with the DVD/CDRW because I already have an external DVD burner, plus they didn't have any of the Superdrive models in stock.
 
I recently convinced a PC user friend of mine that he really should get a Mac and I enlisted help from his 8 year old son by showing him the Speakable Items software, once he'd played with that on my PB he was on at his dad every day and he finally cracked. And Jeez did he crack. He got a new 1.9GHz iMac for himself, a 14" iBook for his wife and a 1.42GHz Mini for the boy. I spent the last couple of days setting them all up for him and transferring stuff from the old peecee and when I did a System Profile on the Mini I was delighted to see it was a 1.5GHz. However, I didn't check the vram, I'll see what it has the next time I'm over. The 1.5s are obviously still around in the US and it's a great little machine.:)
 
Noiseboy said:
I spent the last couple of days setting them all up for him and transferring stuff from the old peecee and when I did a System Profile on the Mini I was delighted to see it was a 1.5GHz. However, I didn't check the vram, I'll see what it has the next time I'm over.
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A friend recently ordered a 1.42Ghz mini and unknowingly (until I had him check :)) got the 1.5Ghz "special addition" model, with 64MB VRAM GPU. Forgot to ask him which DVD burner it's got.
 
ezekielrage_99 said:
But really does an extra 32MB video memory and .8Ghz make a heap of performance difference overall? The extra stuff is nice but for anyone using Safari, Appleworks, iLife and iTunes you're not really going to notice that much of a perfermance gain. And if you really need the extra grunt Apple always has the G5 iMac;)
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I'd love to have that upgraded Mac mini, if only for the extra 32MB of VRAM and the better GPU... for World of Warcraft. :D

Other than that, no, it's not going to make much of a difference (except if the 9550 GPU supports more CoreImage/CoreVideo functions than the 9200).
 
Yvan256 said:
...except if the 9550 GPU supports more CoreImage/CoreVideo functions than the 9200
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Huh? I thought that the 1.5GHz Mac mini still had 9200 GPU in it, just 64MiB rather than 32MiB.
 
TodVader said:
The new mini still has the 9200. The poster was just misinformed.
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So does one have to order a BTO superdrive model in order to get these improvements, or does a BTO combodrive model suffice? If anyone has tips, please post! So far it seems that a BTO superdrive with 1GB memory does the trick...
 
Yvan256 said:
I'd love to have that upgraded Mac mini, if only for the extra 32MB of VRAM and the better GPU... for World of Warcraft. :D

Other than that, no, it's not going to make much of a difference (except if the 9550 GPU supports more CoreImage/CoreVideo functions than the 9200).
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I'm using my G4 1.5Ghz Mac Mini with World of Warcraft and all I can say is that is works a treat :D I'm happy with my Mac Mini purchase.

But and upgrade to an ATI 9550 or ATI X300 video card would still be nice;)
 
Bakey said:
I guess if this is true we're pointing to the probable introduction of Intel Mac minis at MacWorld this coming January... possibly being the operative word here!?! :D
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Eh.. if there is even any more than 10% chance of this happening I might just wait till MWSF :D
 
generik said:
Eh.. if there is even any more than 10% chance of this happening I might just wait till MWSF :D
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Well the rumors have been flying around about several of the Mac lines going Intel at MacWorld in January... the fact remains that Apple hasn't "officially" [and by this I mean updated the tech. specs. over at Apple.com] confirmed the 1.3/1.5 minis.

I'm in the same predicament, as I could really do with ditching my Windows desktop box and replace it with a Mac. But I'm a little reluctant to do so with the "possible" imminent release in January!?

Jeez, it's frustrating!!!! ;)
 
If Apple is going low end Intels running at say 1.6 for starters they might not want to advertise the 1.5 G4s if in Jan they are pushing new Intels. Its not great for advertisement to say hey look we have increased our CPU by .7 ghz!!!!!Come and get it only to release a all new machine. If Apple releases a Intel Mini lets just hope they dont go cheap with Intel graphics inside. Apple has a history of using cheap graphics.
 
Well its the only thing that makes sense, why else release upgraded Mini's without telling anyone, then phasing them out without telling anyone :confused:...

If anything id expect the Apple site to have updated to the new spec after a while, once the old stock has gone... not the other way around. :D
 
Bakey said:
Well the rumors have been flying around about several of the Mac lines going Intel at MacWorld in January... the fact remains that Apple hasn't "officially" [and by this I mean updated the tech. specs. over at Apple.com] confirmed the 1.3/1.5 minis.

I'm in the same predicament, as I could really do with ditching my Windows desktop box and replace it with a Mac. But I'm a little reluctant to do so with the "possible" imminent release in January!?

Jeez, it's frustrating!!!! ;)
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Good thing comes to those who wait :)

I am gearing up for a Intel PB too! Or at least a speedbump. Or one without lines on its screen.

Anything is an improvement for this baby :)

With the Intel Mini I just might get 2 macs for MWSF too :)
 
Jimmery said:
So does one have to order a BTO superdrive model in order to get these improvements, or does a BTO combodrive model suffice? If anyone has tips, please post! So far it seems that a BTO superdrive with 1GB memory does the trick...
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I just ordered "the middle one" (1.4 with combo drive) from Apple's site on 14 Nov, with a simple 1GB BTO upgrade.

I received it on 23 Nov and am happy to report it is a 1.5 model :)

BTW, the serial shows it was built in week 46, well past the "semi official" cutoff date of week 36 or so.
 
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