Wow, Mini prices are getting crazy!

[EdwardC]

Just saw that MicroCenter, which is usually the absolute least expensive place to buy new Macs currently has refurbished 2020 M1 Minis for $999.00! 2 TB of storage, but wow this seems crazy. https://www.microcenter.com/product/711755/apple-mac-mini-(late-2020)-desktop-computer-(refurbished).

 

[Bazza1]

The whole point behind the Mini was to introduce users who may have been on desktop computers using other OSs (ahem) and already had a screen, keyboard, mouse, camera, etc an opportunity to try Macs. The low price point at the time was absolutely essential for this. If it also encouraged existing Mac users to upgrade their older devices, well that would be a boon, too.

But, as they did with the MacBook Air (once the inexpensive de facto Mac for students, road warriors and the cafe crowd), they've priced it out of it's original market.

At my Apple Store, the least expensive Macs they have available (be it stocking issues or company decision to kill off models) is a $CDN1000 Neo or a $CDN1100 Mini. That's absurd.

 

[ivnj]

Tradeins are high too. M4 mini 256/16 basic version I have was 300 at bestbuy for tradein and still is. But apple was 290 few months back. Just checked now. My serial number says 350 now. I am surprised it's up. Usually it goes down not up. Because of the supply shortage maybe? 350 is too high.

 

[danpass]

hmmm .... I wonder what an M1 16gb/1tb is worth

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[Fishrrman]

I'm thinking that when the entire "data center" boom collapses (like a deflating souffle), the price of Minis will start dropping back down as well...

 

[boswald]

I'm thinking that when the entire "data center" boom collapses (like a deflating souffle), the price of Minis will start dropping back down as well...

We're all waiting with anticipation for it to happen. I, personally, have a few companies on my shortlist of who I'd like to see fail. I would feel sorry for the peons who are out of jobs, but no sympathy for the greedy executives.

 

[ivnj]

hmmm .... I wonder what an M1 16gb/1tb is worth

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Apple says 230.

Go here

Apple Trade In

Trade in your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch or any other device for credit towards a new one, or recycle it responsibly for free with Apple Trade In.

www.apple.com

Select Mac and click find tradein value. When it asks for serial number type this in.

C07VV3QZG1HW

It's valid. It my serial number from my 2014 I traded in around end of January 2021. It's valid but it's so old it does not register.

So then it asks what mac you have. And any Mac can be looked up.

 

[sunman42]

The only problem with that will be elbowing your way past the soup lines of unemployed folks as the entire tech industry starts laying off even more thousands of people than they are now. And the construction companies that never got paid for building, or at least permitting and starting to build, ~ 80% of the "planned" data centers.

I'm not saying some kinds of AI won't remain useful and commercially viable, but some of those aren't going to be in the US, and some of the US AI startups springing up like mushrooms these days are going to be (for those who remember the dot bust) sock puppets in the next three or four years.