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Just got a Mac Mini Core Solo for a steal

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iGrant

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HAHAHAHA,

I am so happy today, I bought a Mac Mini Core Solo from a co-worker today. He just upgraded to a new iMac 24" and loves it and doesn't need his old Mac Mini Core Solo. He came over to my desk asked if I wanted it, I asked how much, he told me 200 bucks!!!!

I went to the bank and gave him cash. I have never seen a Mac Mini Core anything online that cheap. Thinking about doing a CPU Swap in it to either a Core Duo T2300 because of how inexpensive the CPU is, you can get it on eBay for about 50 bucks.

-iGrant
 
Congrats! First on getting a Mini and second on such a great price. That is much lower than I paid for my 1.66ghz Core duo.
 
Oneness said:
Congrats! First on getting a Mini and second on such a great price. That is much lower than I paid for my 1.66ghz Core duo.
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Thank you, this is actually my second Mac Mini, I have a G4 Mac Mini that is a 1.25Ghz model that I have been using for a while and this is going to replace it.

-iGrant
 
yrsonicdeath said:
Wow congrats. If only some one could offer me such a deal!
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Honestly it just by chance, when I order my Power Mac Dual G5 1.8Ghz off of eBay, the Auction said it was the model that could only hold 4gb of ram and when I got it and opened it up, it was the 8gb model.

I am sure a deal will come your way sooner or later!!!!

-iGrant
 
NintendoFan said:
Considering it was $500 when it was released I hardly think so.
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Plus, try finding one a Intel Mac Mini for under 350. I agree with NintendoFan.

Yeah it might have been the slowest Intel Mac that Apple ever released, but its upgradeable, heck I am thinking about putting a Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0Ghz 4mb cache in the Mac Mini and upgrading the Mac from a 32bit single core to a 64 bit dual core system. Including the CPU to do so, I would only be spending about 350 on the little Mac Mini. I think that is a good deal personally.

More than likely though I am going to get an old T2300 for about 40 ~ 50 bucks on ebay and have a nice little Core Duo Mac Mini.

Lord Zedd said:
$200? Thats really expensive for THE slowest and most crippled Intel powered Mac ever made.
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Its really not, and yes it is the slowest INTEL Mac Apple ever produced, but it makes my G4 Mac Mini 1.25Ghz Mac Mini look like a nice paper weight.

-iGrant

UPDATE I just bought a Intel Core Duo 1.66Ghz T2300 on eBay for 37 bucks including shipping. It should be a nice speed boost compared to my Core Solo 1.5Ghz!!!! I was thinking about getting a T7200 ~ T7600 Core 2 Duo, but I think I will wait for the prices to come a little more before I do that!!! So far I have spent 237.00 bucks and I will have a Mac Mini Core Duo 1.66Ghz . . . . I think I am doing pretty good at the moment ;-)!
 
iGrant said:
UPDATE I just bought a Intel Core Duo 1.66Ghz T2300 on eBay for 37 bucks including shipping. It should be a nice speed boost compared to my Core Solo 1.5Ghz!!!! I was thinking about getting a T7200 ~ T7600 Core 2 Duo, but I think I will wait for the prices to come a little more before I do that!!! So far I have spent 237.00 bucks and I will have a Mac Mini Core Duo 1.66Ghz . . . . I think I am doing pretty good at the moment ;-)!
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Now that is quite a steal.
 
Lord Zedd said:
Core Duo is not 64 bit.
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I never said anywhere that the T2300 was 64bit . . . I stated I could make the machine 64bit if I went with a T7200/T7400 Intel Core 2 Duo.

When I said the following:

Yeah it might have been the slowest Intel Mac that Apple ever released, but its upgradeable, heck I am thinking about putting a Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0Ghz 4mb cache in the Mac Mini and upgrading the Mac from a 32bit single core to a 64 bit dual core system. Including the CPU to do so, I would only be spending about 350 on the little Mac Mini. I think that is a good deal personally.
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I even said that was if I went with a T7200 Intel Core 2 Duo. I went with 32bit T2300 because it was cheaper.
 
iGrant said:
Yeah it is, the only upgrades I want to do eventually is up the hard drive, max the ram out and put in a super drive and then I think I will be set.

-iGrant
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You could put a nice 7200 rpm hard drive in there if you really want to max it out!

Do you know what speed the hard drive is? I think some of the earlier mini's shipped with a 4200rpm drive, i know that my 1.83 machine has a 5400 however.
What hard drive would you plan on putting in?
 
JG271 said:
You could put a nice 7200 rpm hard drive in there if you really want to max it out!

Do you know what speed the hard drive is? I think some of the earlier mini's shipped with a 4200rpm drive, i know that my 1.83 machine has a 5400 however.
What hard drive would you plan on putting in?
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I was actually looking at the 5400 because nothing I do requires fast disk activity, I mostly watch movies and tv shows that I have recorded, so I like 5400 drives because they also run cooler and use less power.

I was thinking of getting either the 250gb or the 320gb drive for my Mac Mini.

-iGrant
 
iGrant said:
I was actually looking at the 5400 because nothing I do requires fast disk activity, I mostly watch movies and tv shows that I have recorded, so I like 5400 drives because they also run cooler and use less power.

I was thinking of getting either the 250gb or the 320gb drive for my Mac Mini.
-iGrant
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Yeah, a hard drive upgrade will be good - I find 80GB a bit limiting.
7200s are quite expensive and its not your main computer i guess. The mac mini is amazing for power usage.
 
JG271 said:
Yeah, a hard drive upgrade will be good - I find 80GB a bit limiting.
7200s are quite expensive and its not your main computer i guess. The mac mini is amazing for power usage.
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No the Mac Mini is not main computer, that is what my Macbook is for, I love that thing, the case is falling apart around it but it works great! I can't tell you how times it been dropped or thrown around on an airplane in bad turbulence.

Even through all of that, the Macbook has never stop working for me :cool:.

-iGrant
 
nice, im trying to find the same kind of mac mini you were able to get. and for $200, it does sound like a steal, esp since you can throw in a core 2 duo in there
 
Congratulations on your acquirance/purchase. Not a bad machine at all, excellent for all the right stuff :)
 
Robertson1993 said:
Congratulations on your acquirance/purchase. Not a bad machine at all, excellent for all the right stuff :)
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Yeah that is a very true statement, I have been using it for about two days now and I love the little machine. I likeit how its always there, I can't explain it, my G4 Mac Mini just feels like it struggles at times compared to my Core Solo Mac Mini.

I still love both Mac Minis, but that might be because I am a G4 Cube owner :D.

-iGrant
 
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