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01/25/2005, 12:55pm, EST

Tuesday, January 25th

Apple lowers BTO pricing on Mac mini

Apple has quietly lowered the price of some of its build-to-order components on the Mac mini as well as offering a faster version of its optical SuperDrive. The Apple Store is now offering the combination SuperDrive reads DVDs at 8x, writes to DVD-R at 4x, writes DVD+/-R at 4x, writes DVD+RW at 2-4x, reads CDs at 24x, writes to CD-R at 16x, and writes to CD-RW at 8x. Bluetooth/AirPort Extreme upgrade for $100 ($30 drop), while offering the Bluetooth upgrade separately for $50. Apple is also offering 1GB RAM upgrades for $325 ($150 drop) and offering a faster 8x SuperDrive (with both DVD+/-RW functionality) for the same $100 upgrade price as its previous 4x SuperDrive. A hard drive upgrade to 80GB (from 40GB) is now $50 ($40 drop). The estimated ship time on BTO and standard configuration Mac minis is 3-4 weeks. Update: The BTO "8x SuperDrive" combines a 4x/2x/8x DVD+/-RW mechanism with a 16x/8x/24x CD-RW mechanism.


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01/25, 1:29pm, EST
:)
Ratm
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positive
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01/25, 1:47pm, EST
that's a really positive development. fun to see apple acting so cost-consciously.
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nice..... BUT?
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01/25, 2:18pm, EST
What about the people that already purchased on that was maxed out (Like I did).

Is Apple going to help the early birds??? PLEASE?
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Blows!
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01/25, 2:19pm, EST
How dare they lower prices! What of all the people who spent that money in the last weeks, do they get refunds!

This is so unlike Apple. They almost never change their spec sheets once a machine is out (except for new revisions), and they certainly don't update prices. Mainly to forego the cries of the early adopters who are all going to be pissed about their slow DVD-RW drives and overpriced RAM.

BTW, the hard drive upgrade option was always $50, not $90. I remember this specifically because reviews on the machine mentioned that the $599 version had the 1.42GHz chip and hard drive, and it basically amounted to a $50 extras just for the MHz increase (also, anyone wanting the 80GB would be stupid, then, not to get the $599 machine, as the MHz increase would be just another $9).
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A welcome change
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01/25, 2:27pm, EST
You snooze, you win!
yikes600
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Good or bad?
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01/25, 2:31pm, EST
Early adopters = pwnd!
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Simple
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01/25, 2:41pm, EST
All they have to do is call Apple and get a price difference. Customers can return the thing and then upgrade... or bitch about it, till they get they refun. It's that simple, just call Apple. They knew that this would happen by chaning the price, they have contingent plans for all those that call (since it hasn't even been a month). So, stop with the bitching arlready.
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RE: Prices
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01/25, 2:53pm, EST
I would be happiest if they only overcharged for the 1gig ram chip by like 40 or so bucks over the cost of that ram on the web,...I have seen it for as low as $169-209, and charge like $250 for the 1gig ram chip, installed and such, thus no damage to your Mac Mini from using thin putty knives,etc... If they did that... yeah baby.

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No 8x SD in UK store yet
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01/25, 2:58pm, EST
Hopefully this will get remedied soon though, unless of course Apple are spoiling for a repeat of the fight they had with UK customers over the inferior iMac FP/BD graphics chip fiasco they dumped onto us a few years back..:)!
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lower prices?
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01/25, 3:19pm, EST
*checks temperature of hell*
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