Getting a Mac Mini advice needed

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Ok fair enough I concede the irrelevence of high price,but surely you see my point about how it wouldn't be a problem to upgrade things like ram and hdd in the low end and higher machines

Yeah, i do. Apple are high likely to upgrade the mini to 512 as standard. Next few weeks i think. Thats what people think will happen anyway. It was a poor idea to have to at 256mb

[LostintheNW]

Well considering i dont want to spend a bomb on a mac and then find out I dont totally like the machine its pointless arguing over high end machines at the moment, and at the end of the day if i like it i can get a g5 later on, and have everything networked together, plus the mac can be left doing video while i use my pc...just thought it would be nice for a change and £400 isnt exactly a lot of money now is it?

[Raistlin]

Originally Posted by LostintheNW

£400 isnt exactly a lot of money now is it?

[LostintheNW]

lol i meant to spend on a pc! god that did come out totally wrong

[punky]

Originally Posted by LostintheNW

Well considering i dont want to spend a bomb on a mac and then find out I dont totally like the machine its pointless arguing over high end machines at the moment, and at the end of the day if i like it i can get a g5 later on, and have everything networked together, plus the mac can be left doing video while i use my pc...just thought it would be nice for a change and £400 isnt exactly a lot of money now is it?

They sell Apples in PC World, so why not wander in there and have a play with one?

And about the cost, it is worth considering the refurbished models. (I had to to be able to afford what I wanted, argh, lets not go there again...), but its not to shabby. It looked great, works fine so far, and more importantly, you can still get AppleCare on refurbs so you are covered if it does break.

Originally Posted by LostintheNW

lol i meant to spend on a pc! god that did come out totally wrong

Your not spending it on a pc your looking at a mac,I know pedantic but hey

[LostintheNW]

Originally Posted by punky

They sell Apples in PC World, so why not wander in there and have a play with one?

And about the cost, it is worth considering the refurbished models. (I had to to be able to afford what I wanted, argh, lets not go there again...), but its not to shabby. It looked great, works fine so far, and more importantly, you can still get AppleCare on refurbs so you are covered if it does break.

Where do you get refurbs from? PC World as well? and I have played around with macs in there before but you know what its like with the sales assistants....they do seem good though
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ok can anyone tell me if this is a good one....slightly more but well might be worth it

http://www.microanvika.com/mac/produ...O&PNO=MAC11746

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by LostintheNW

Where do you get refurbs from? PC World as well? and I have played around with macs in there before but you know what its like with the sales assistants....they do seem good though

Apple do them on the Apple site at 10:00am Wednesday mornings.

ok can anyone tell me if this is a good one....slightly more but well might be worth it

http://www.microanvika.com/mac/produ...O&PNO=MAC11746

Yep, the iMacs are good..

[LostintheNW]

I am going to check out the iMac at lunch and see what I think

[LostintheNW]

bah that was no good, I can't decide what I want!

iMacs and eMacs have been updated

[LostintheNW]

thinking of the iMac seeing as i get the student discount!!

[LostintheNW]

ok i am going to go for an iMac....whats a superdrive though, is that the one where u can write dvds as well?

[quadplay]

Precisely that!

[Chris W]

Originally Posted by LostintheNW

ok i am going to go for an iMac....whats a superdrive though, is that the one where u can write dvds as well?

yep the standard (for a mini anyway) is a CDRW/ DVD combo, and the superdrive is a DVD writer