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Mac mini HELP in NY !!!

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Ok I'm gonna eat my words and buy a new mini for the office.

Can someone tell me, my uncle is going to NY for St.Patricks towards the end of the month.

At €889euro ($1067) I do not want to buy a mini in ireland, however if he picks it up in the states for $799 (that's only €660) which at that price i'm willing to get over the integrated graphics.

It's small enough without packaging to fit in his hand luggage as well... Is $799 the street price in NY and where would be the best place to buy one there?

Thanks..
 
best place is apple store SoHo. On the corner of Prince and Green streets in, guess where, SoHo (downtown area).

I also have seen pics of the box and they seem small.
 
Sorry to tell you but the mini would be small enough but then you have the extras as well...unless you put them into his other bags. As for shopping in NYC....$$$Expensive and taxes will get you. SoHo is your place.

How big is the hand lug?


Bless
 
yankeefan24 said:
Which is something like 8.865. need to check that. but its alot.
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DAMN :) knew it would be too good to true. That takes it to around $901 or €749 (still a good saving €130 )

He is carrying video and camera equipment over for a photography work over there so there should be space...
 
sales tax here is about 8.625. geez, it's not that bad. look at VAT in the UK! ha, anyway you can go to the Apple SoHo store or you can go to one of the many 3rd party resellers. Tekserve is the next biggest and most popular. how do you plan to plug it in when you get it back to Ireland? isn't the electric system completely different?
 
tjwett said:
sales tax here is about 8.625. geez, it's not that bad. look at VAT in the UK! ha, anyway you can go to the Apple SoHo store or you can go to one of the many 3rd party resellers. Tekserve is the next biggest and most popular. how do you plan to plug it in when you get it back to Ireland? isn't the electric system completely different?
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Uk is 17.5% Ireland is 21% :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I thought all mac powersupply's were dual voltage. Just a case switching the cord for a 3pin uk/ireland power supply....
 
My roommate and I have both made small-ish purchases at Digital Society recently with very good luck. Didn't look at their prices for machines, but I bought a FW cable and my roomy bought 1GB of ram for his PB both at competetive prices.
 
MacRumorUser said:
Uk is 17.5% Ireland is 21% :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I thought all mac powersupply's were dual voltage. Just a case switching the cord for a 3pin uk/ireland power supply....
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oh perhaps. just never saw a 240/120 switch on the minis power supply. i guess it internal and auto?
 
munckee said:
My roommate and I have both made small-ish purchases at Digital Society recently with very good luck. Didn't look at their prices for machines, but I bought a FW cable and my roomy bought 1GB of ram for his PB both at competetive prices.
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bring all my repairs there for commercial clients. great staff. never crowded.
 
tjwett said:
oh perhaps. just never saw a 240/120 switch on the minis power supply. i guess it internal and auto?
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Yep current mac mini power supply is AC input: 100-240v
Same as the laptop & ipod power supply. Only the plug is different, hence they make that the part that's interchangeable.
 
You could always have your uncle cross the river and go the apple store in Paramus NJ to save on the sales tax but then you would have travel
 
mustard said:
You could always have your uncle cross the river and go the apple store in Paramus NJ to save on the sales tax but then you would have travel
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Or, if he's staying there a while, he could order it from Powermax, Amazon, MacConnection, etc. and not pay tax.
 
ITASOR said:
Or, if he's staying there a while, he could order it from Powermax, Amazon, MacConnection, etc. and not pay tax.
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If resellers actually have them in stock - I am not getting one so I haven't checked but good point.
 
mustard said:
You could always have your uncle cross the river and go the apple store in Paramus NJ to save on the sales tax but then you would have travel
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Thank's you've saved me more money :)

He is actually going for 4 weeks, and 3 of those he's staying in NJ :
 
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