Has anyone tried to do a good costing of the mac mini part by part? To try and get an idea of how much it costs apple to make?
Im gonna try roughly, please feel free to correct me and add to this
Also I'm gonna do this is £s, so I hope someone can have a go in dollars
The processor, is it the p7350? Which OEM is about £150?? I can only find one place that sells it in the UK, and I know that the 2.26 ghz version was around $210 release price in the US, so I think its less than this, but I'll use the high price as a conservative guess.
We'll use apples pricing for RAM, which is about £40 for the one gigabyte of ddr 3
A 120gb 2.5 inch hard drive is another 40 quid
Apples logic board ... The intel dg45fc (that name is off the top of my head) is their mini itx (170mm by 170mm) x4500hd integrated board, is about £100. I think its slightly bigger than the minis board, but this board is aimed at a niche market and is priced accordingly. I'd guess that mass producing the mini's logic board for apple costs them no more than £80, What do you think?
The case itself can cost no more than £30 to apple once they start churning them out, can it?
The PSU would be some small picopsu board plus an external (50 or 60 watts for the tiny mini) and I can get one of these for £40, and I'm not one of the biggest lap-top makers in the world. Buying these separately for tiny PC's is a tiny niche market and subject to high prices, to apple, laptop PSU equipment must be very cheap.
So far
CPU £150
Mobo £80
Ram £40
Case £30
HD £40
PSU £40
Around £420, lets add £50 for 9400m which isn't a leap ahead of x4500hd used in my reference mobo. So £470 for a conservative estimate, which alone, is quite close to what they are asking (£500)
But if I haven't missed anything, I'm sure they can get the CPU for £100 on bulk, the RAM is realistically much cheaper, the case might cost close to nothing, the PSU is probably cheaper, and I'm not sure adding £50 for a 9400m on a mobo I've already priced at 80 is realistic. This brings the cost of the mini down closer to £300 which starts making things look silly.
What do you think? What is it like with American prices, where have I gone wrong. This wasn't any accurate guide, it was just some thoughts I want to discuss
Im gonna try roughly, please feel free to correct me and add to this
Also I'm gonna do this is £s, so I hope someone can have a go in dollarsThe processor, is it the p7350? Which OEM is about £150?? I can only find one place that sells it in the UK, and I know that the 2.26 ghz version was around $210 release price in the US, so I think its less than this, but I'll use the high price as a conservative guess.
We'll use apples pricing for RAM, which is about £40 for the one gigabyte of ddr 3
A 120gb 2.5 inch hard drive is another 40 quid
Apples logic board ... The intel dg45fc (that name is off the top of my head) is their mini itx (170mm by 170mm) x4500hd integrated board, is about £100. I think its slightly bigger than the minis board, but this board is aimed at a niche market and is priced accordingly. I'd guess that mass producing the mini's logic board for apple costs them no more than £80, What do you think?
The case itself can cost no more than £30 to apple once they start churning them out, can it?
The PSU would be some small picopsu board plus an external (50 or 60 watts for the tiny mini) and I can get one of these for £40, and I'm not one of the biggest lap-top makers in the world. Buying these separately for tiny PC's is a tiny niche market and subject to high prices, to apple, laptop PSU equipment must be very cheap.
So far
CPU £150
Mobo £80
Ram £40
Case £30
HD £40
PSU £40
Around £420, lets add £50 for 9400m which isn't a leap ahead of x4500hd used in my reference mobo. So £470 for a conservative estimate, which alone, is quite close to what they are asking (£500)
But if I haven't missed anything, I'm sure they can get the CPU for £100 on bulk, the RAM is realistically much cheaper, the case might cost close to nothing, the PSU is probably cheaper, and I'm not sure adding £50 for a 9400m on a mobo I've already priced at 80 is realistic. This brings the cost of the mini down closer to £300 which starts making things look silly.
What do you think? What is it like with American prices, where have I gone wrong. This wasn't any accurate guide, it was just some thoughts I want to discuss