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"Mini PC" Sold in Mac Mini Shells

Tucom said:
How are they getting away with this - it's obvious the crappy, top "logo" is to cover up the Apple logo. Where are they getting these Apple Mac Mini shells?
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Apple has been using a factory somewhere (in China, right?) to mill out these unibody aluminum shells. I would guess the factory wants to make money, and if Apple isn't ordering as many of them as before, they'd want to do something with the stock they've got left...
 
jpietrzak8 said:
Apple has been using a factory somewhere (in China, right?) to mill out these unibody aluminum shells. I would guess the factory wants to make money, and if Apple isn't ordering as many of them as before, they'd want to do something with the stock they've got left...
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Well if these are "in fact" Apple mini shells, then they've gone to great lengths to change the bottom opening plate.
 
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jbarley said:
Well if these are "in fact" Apple mini shells, then they've gone to great lengths to change the bottom opening plate.
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Actually, that bottom plate appears to be related to a different product. If you take a close look at the corners, you can see that they are sharper than those on the Mini's case. (Also, the front and back images show Apple's standard bottom plate, rather than a plate that reaches edge-to-edge.)

In any case, this does appear to be a fly-by-night product. ;)
 
jpietrzak8 said:
Last year, my Mother went out and picked up a new monitor for her Mini. I'm not sure where she went, but it turned out to be a little LCD monitor that only had VGA input.

So yeah, VGA is still a thing. :)
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There's even new, super budget Dell monitors with VGA only - I guess for something to get by on a basic level it's still relevant.

Still, at least DVI you'd think.
 
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ActionableMango said:
VGA is still a thing? I did not think VGA was still a thing.
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There's a lot of it about. When I hook my Mac Mini up to an LCD projector at work it is via VGA adaptor.
 
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Micky Do said:
There's a lot of it about. When I hook my Mac Mini up to an LCD projector at work it is via VGA adaptor.
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It amuses me that we take perfect digital content, use a DAC to convert it to analog VGA (causing a loss), send it over a cord in analog (which is more prone to interference), and then use an ADC to covert it from analog back to digital (more loss) so that it will work with the LCD.
 
ActionableMango said:
It amuses me that we take perfect digital content, use a DAC to convert it to analog VGA (causing a loss), send it over a cord in analog (which is more prone to interference), and then use an ADC to covert it from analog back to digital (more loss) so that it will work with the LCD.
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Actually, I've still got a couple of old CRTs sitting in my garage. It's quite possible that someone might still hook up a purely analog display to a VGA port. ;)
 
jpietrzak8 said:
Apple has been using a factory somewhere (in China, right?) to mill out these unibody aluminum shells. I would guess the factory wants to make money, and if Apple isn't ordering as many of them as before, they'd want to do something with the stock they've got left...
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You mean, if Apple is (1) discontinuing the model or (2) changing the case then the factory in China might as well use the tooling it has to sell the cases to somebody else!
 
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