Price Drop on Mac Mini Units

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Am I imagining things or has there been 50 quid lopped of the price of the Mini?

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Was 649 right :confused:
 
I wonder if this is a mid-production-cycle-just-in-time-for-christmas type drop to increase sales.

It is slightly more tempting at just under £600 I suppose.
 
Good! The UK price was such a joke compared with the US price.

I might finally get and do the Mac Mini HTPC I've been thinking of for ages now before the 2011 VAT rise!
 
wake me when it hits £499. I love their kit but they do gouge their customers somewhat.

(typed on my iMac which is gorgeous to behold) ;)
 
Still ridiculously marked up, you can build an i5 equipped PC with a beasty graphics card for far less than £600.

or a same specced nice little HTPC for £300 odd, put OS X on it and job done.

I understand the mark up on the notebooks they sell - you can justify the extra money due to the terrific battery life, but all of their desktops are ridiculously overpriced for what you get. Having great build quality doesn't come close to matching the mark up they put on their desktops.
 
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Margaret said:
Still ridiculously marked up, you can build an i5 equipped PC with a beasty graphics card for far less than £600.

or a same specced nice little HTPC for £300 odd, put OS X on it and job done.
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your paying extra for the form factor and the aesthetics.
 
sanaxe1 said:
your paying extra for the form factor and the aesthetics.
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So the form factor and 'aesthetics' make up for the fact you're paying £300 more than what a PC would cost with the same hardware? Actually for £300 you can get a considerably better graphics card than the Mac Mini, when custom building.

Short answer: No, they don't.

If you like paying way over the odds because it looks a bit sleeker than the average machine then that's your money. verystupidlyspent
 
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ukSleek said:
So are you saying if i bought this system w'out an OS i could intall OSX on it?
I allready have a uMBP 15" which i use for music production but i wan't a system running OSX through my tv but can't justify paying that amount for a mini..

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-020-OP

p.s not trying to highjack this thread btw ;)
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You probably could, but it's a banned topic on these forums. Plus if by running it through a TV you mean use it as a home theatre system the one you linked to is overkill - it's probably the complete opposite to what I'd spec for a HTPC even if it is significant more bang for buck.
 
Margaret said:
So the form factor and 'aesthetics' make up for the fact you're paying £300 more than what a PC would cost with the same hardware? Actually for £300 you can get a considerably better graphics card than the Mac Mini, when custom building.

Short answer: No, they don't.

If you like paying way over the odds because it looks a bit sleeker than the average machine then that's your money. verystupidlyspent
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OK, I'll bite.

A Mac Mini 2.66GHz is £722.00 inc VAT. Crucial want £123.73 for 8GB of RAM (I'll admit that Apple's prices for RAM are ludicrous). Total of £845.73.

So that's £845.73 for a 2.66GHz C2D, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 320M and a pretty case which measures 1.4" x 7.7".

I personally would be able to get Apple HE discount on the machine, but for the calculations lets assume it's Joe Public who can't.

What PC would you build as an alternative?

(For this exercise I'm assuming that the Mac Mini is for HTPC use, and the user is indifferent between Plex on OSX and XBMC on Win7).
 
^^ There's a sexy HTPC case that I've seen a few people mention on here that is 300ish alone IIRC, so I can see the appeal of Mac Mini's as a HTPC.

I wasn't the one slating them initially btw.
 
Westyfield2 said:
What PC would you build as an alternative?

(For this exercise I'm assuming that the Mac Mini is for HTPC use, and the user is indifferent between Plex on OSX and XBMC on Win7).
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Remember that the Mac Mini is very quiet also, it wouldn't be easy to make a PC as quiet and as small with similar spec really regardless of cost... It uses a 2.5" HDD doesn't it?
 
MikeHunt79 said:
Remember that the Mac Mini is very quiet also, it wouldn't be easy to make a PC as quiet and as small with similar spec really regardless of cost... It uses a 2.5" HDD doesn't it?
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Yeah it's quiet as a quiet thing and has a 2.5" drive :).

Though if/when I get one I'll just whack an SSD in anyways :p.
 
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