OT: Mac Mini - wow!

damn nice... me wants one... me wants one NOW!!! Farking cool for music GIGs if you are into electronic music...

At work we have that big bastard... the dual G5 all metal... awesome but BIG.
ofcourse I dont use MAC's cuz me is windows brainwashed but nothing can comapre to their OS or cases in terms of design.
 
It'll be R5000 at the very least - Apple shops over here put really steep markups on thier products, probably due to low demand. A direct conversion of $ to R would see it at half that price, but it obviously doesn't work that way.

I'd love to have one ! - must keep my ears open for anyone going to the USA who could maybe snag one for me - something that small could easily fit into hand-luggage and the old trick of removing all the packaging to prevent possible charges at customs is easily done.
 
Just checked it out....There is one problem: $500 gets the box with combo optical drive and 256MB memory with a small 40GB drive...and that's it. No monitor, no keyboard, no mouse.

If you upgrade the memory, add a bigger hdd, and buy a reasonable monitor....you'll pay about the same as an eMac.

It looks coool though!
 
I think it's mainly to get existing PC users to switch over - most people will have a PC already. In my case, I've got one of those inexpensive monitor/keyboard switchers at home, so it would be a cool little addition to my network ! :D
 
They will start at around R4600 -> www.apple.co.za

They have also just launched the iPod Shuffle and iWork - finally some decent competition for MS Office ;)

I bought an iBook last year and have since become a huge fan of Apple. OS X is also super-cool if you're from a Linux/BSD background :D
 
R4659 - is that with or without VAT ?

Even without, it's expensive, but I guess we all figured that one.
I think it may be priced out of the SA market, no matter how sexy it is. Hard to say - I'd have to get my grubby paws on one for a few hours to see.

You can build a more powerful PC in a cool mini-atx case for that price.

I just spent 5 minutes on sybaritic (not even the cheapest HD supplier) and for an equivalent price get a far higher spec PC :-

Western Digital 40GB Caviar SE SATA 8MB 7200RPM Hard Drive - R585.00
Alpica DDR333 256MB Memory Module Alpica DDR333 256MB Memory Module - R339.00
Asus A9200 SE/T ATI Radeon 9200 SE 8xAGP 64-bit 128MB DDR w/TV - R496.00
Samsung 40xCD-R / 24xCD-RW / 48xCD / 16xDVD / 16xDVD+R / 12xDVD-R / etc. - R614.00
Antec LifeStyle Minuet Slimline Desktop Chassis - Piano Black - R747.00
Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M Via K8M800 Motherboard w/A6 + G + L + SATA RAID - R747.00
AMD Athlon 64 2800+ Processor - Socket 754, 512k L2 - Boxed - R977.00

Total : R4,505.00 (Inc. VAT)

Bear in mind, I was just doing this quickly as a case in point - also, there's no OS or software - that would up the price significantly. If you dropped the spec to something similar to the entry level Mac Mini, you could add a copy of windows XP home - possibly instead of a AMD64, an Athlon and a standard DVD/CD-Writer combo instead of the DVD writer.

Hmm, I must admit, I'm interested, but I wouldn't go above R4000 incl. VAT for the entry level Mac Mini.
 
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Well I come from a Windows background (way back to DOS 6.22 and Win3.1), and got an iBook 6 months ago. And I can honestly say that it's the best computer I've ever owned - I dumped my cheap plasticky Dell Inspiron 1100, and got a 12" 1GHz iBook. OS X is so well designed, it never (NEVER) crashes, and has simple little niceties like you can install applications by simply dragging them to your applications folder, and uninstall them by just deleting them - the entire app is contained in a single file. No stupid registry, no setup programs, no inane wizards. Not to mention it's so preettyyyy *eyes glaze over*.

Oh, and no spyware/etc. I think PCs are still cheaper, and will remain so, but price is not everything to all of us. I went the cheap PC notebook route, and was very unhappy. Lugging around a creaky Dell that didn't "fit" together properly that was SO HEAVY and got SO HOT is not fun, not even for R 7000.

And the iBook wasn't even that expensive - R 8999.

Don't get me wrong. I like Windows, it's got all the games of course (well, almost), and Macs get games much later than PCs, but for people that don't play games that much (like me), they're perfect.

Having said that, R 4600 is too much. They can shove it at that price.
 
It looks nice but it needs at least another 256MB to be usable which will cost you a fair whack from Apple authorised dealer to upgrade (you can't do this yourself).

Another problem is the rather low spec ****ty Radeon 9200 for graphics esp with the new "Core Image" eye candy that Apple is introducing in Tiger.

As a surfing/email box for grandma it will do just fine but for more serious stuff that we myadsl.co.za folks expect from their PC it might not.
 
Yeah you never buy your RAM from Apple, unless you actually want to pay RAM TAX :D I bumped by ibook up to 512MB after I bought it.
 
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