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No New Mac mini. What are you gonna do now? (poll)
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i need the new mini to be announced by january 24th, thats the last day i can return my apple tv to bestbuy
I wanted a new mini to be released today in order to drive down the prices of used Core 2 Duo models of the current generation.
I have a 1.83 Core Duo upgraded with a faster Core Duo, and I want another to put into service as a file server (to replace my windows box). I definitely want an Intel system, but I don't necessarily need newer features.
As soon as the new ones come out, the prices for used ones should drop a fair amount.
I have a 1.83 Core Duo upgraded with a faster Core Duo, and I want another to put into service as a file server (to replace my windows box). I definitely want an Intel system, but I don't necessarily need newer features.
As soon as the new ones come out, the prices for used ones should drop a fair amount.
Waiting for a new model (with nVidia GPU), and putting more money into my savings account while waiting. If my savings builds up to the point of being able to afford a Mac Pro, then i'll go for one of those, but i'm not wasting money on an iMac (already have a laptop being used as a desktop 
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That makes sense at this point. Apple could sell a lot more software upgrades if they would just go ahead and release a new mini now. But if they don't, we might as well wait and get them for free.I've decided to wait until it actually comes with Snow Leopard and iLife '09 pre-installed...
I'm a computer's tech for a school board of 11,000 students, near of 3,500 computers. 60% Mac and 40% PC.
In a school, we have two labs: one with 33 computers Dell Core2Duo with a 17" LCD display. In the second lab, we have 33 Cube G4, with regular 19" LCD display, 33 Apple Keyboards with mouse. This labs is ready to receive 33 new Mac Mini.
We don't had choice to waiting this summer to replace computers in the Mac lab because the Mini it's too old. We can't replace this lab with iMac, we don't have this extra money and we don't have choice to take an extra 300$ warranty for each iMac, not with Mini.
We had waiting until yesterday to see a new Mac Mini. But now, we decided to study if we can turn this school in a 100% PC situation. Just replacing the Cube G4 by a fresh new Dell.
Sorry Apple, you lost the game!
Ghislain Picard (sorry for my english)
In a school, we have two labs: one with 33 computers Dell Core2Duo with a 17" LCD display. In the second lab, we have 33 Cube G4, with regular 19" LCD display, 33 Apple Keyboards with mouse. This labs is ready to receive 33 new Mac Mini.
We don't had choice to waiting this summer to replace computers in the Mac lab because the Mini it's too old. We can't replace this lab with iMac, we don't have this extra money and we don't have choice to take an extra 300$ warranty for each iMac, not with Mini.
We had waiting until yesterday to see a new Mac Mini. But now, we decided to study if we can turn this school in a 100% PC situation. Just replacing the Cube G4 by a fresh new Dell.
Sorry Apple, you lost the game!
Ghislain Picard (sorry for my english)
I had been waiting a few months for the new mini to be my transition from PC to Mac. Im disapointed that it did not come out at Mac World. There are to many signs pointing to a new mac mini coming in the future. I think for me I am going to see if i can find a refurbished or used mini to start my transition so that when the New Mac Mini finially is released I am up to speed. And if it never comes out, I will probably go Macbook over iMac.
I'm going to keep waiting, but it would have REALLY BEEN NICE to have seen the new Mac Mini yesterday.
Sad indeed that Apple hasnt done squat with Mini, they deserve a serious serious butt kicking. Shame!That was a great thread that was
I just bought a refurbished MacMini from Apple.com for $499. That will hold me over for time being now.
Depends on what your time is worth to you. If you don't spend time researching the right hardware to buy, then you spend time playing with kexts and overcoming issues. Then you spend time downloading and doing it all over again when you need to go to a major update which would otherwise break your hackintosh.
So, if you ~like~ playing around and making stuff work, or your time has little to no value, then you can "save your money" by going hackintosh.
If you want to get on and do real work or real play on your Mac, and you value your spare time, then a Hackintosh does NOT save you money. It only saves you Capital Expenditure, but your Operational Expense will be high.
True costs are CapEx plus OpEx. Hackintoshes have high OpEx.
It takes less than 30mins to search the right hardware. For same price as mini I can build HC gaming hackintosh
Uh, yeah. I spent an hour finding the parts from others at insanelymac.com forums, two hours assembling, an hour installing the OS (10.5.2), and another hour overclocking the cpu and I was up and running back in June. My $930 (including my retail copy of Leopard) bought me a quiet mid-tower quad core at 3.2 gHz that scores over 6400 on Geekbench. On Saturday I updated to 10.5.6 in about two hours. I had a silly ethernet problem that wasn't resolved until the next day.
So, total time invested - about 10 hours. Total cost of a quad-core Mac Pro - about $2400. Savings of $1400. I'll take that.
I was waiting for the new Mac Mini's, but was forced to do something when my my 12" PowerBook G4 bit the big one. I went to a low end 20" iMac. Man my timing was bad. I ended up with an older OS due to be replaced and a copy of iWork and iLife that were very quickly updated.
I wish software upgrades were 1) more financially friendly and 2) more predictable.
I wish software upgrades were 1) more financially friendly and 2) more predictable.
So, total time invested - about 10 hours. Total cost of a quad-core Mac Pro - about $2400. Savings of $1400. I'll take that.
Thanks for the lesson on the Hack Pro... this is a mini thread.
Your math doesn't hold true on a Mac mini replacement. You can buy a Mac Mini of Craigslist for about $400 any day of the week, complete with a legal copy OS X. If you wait and are willing to put in half the hours that you did, you can save even more money.
This is about a mini, not about a Mac Pro...
Have they solved the Software Update problem?
My other problem with this scenario is that you are willing to pay for PC hardware, but download an unauthorized copy of the OS in order to get this to work. Yes, you might be willing to pay for OS X too, and even if you do, it's not a legal copy on your hackintosh. You would be buying a copy of OS X and then shelving it, and then downloading a hacked version and installing that.
Been there, done that, wasn't worth it. I buy broken Macbooks or minis, fix them up, and save the money that way. Costs me some of my time, but then I have the real thing. My wife and my youngest daughter both have "recycled" black MacBooks that look ~wonderful~. My total cost for the two of these combined is maybe $600 for 4 broken MacBooks plus the time it took me to swap parts around between them to create 2 working Blackbooks. Call it 2-3 hours. Plus I have spare parts left over that I can either sell (reducing my cost for these projects) or keep around as spares.
You're welcome.
No where in your post did you mention the Mac Mini.
A used Mac Mini over a new computer? You not serious, are you?
Like I said, my copy of Leopard is perfectly legal. I bought it, it resides on only one computer, and that computer is "Apple labeled."
I got tired of waiting for Apple to get off their proverbial @$$e$. I had waited for a year for a Mini revision before I built my hackintosh. It's now served me well for 8 months and counting.
Perhaps you should keep that in mind when you post.